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Barriers to help-seeking for deliberate self-harm: Construction and validation of a questionnaire for Portuguese adolescents and young adults

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datacite.subject.fosCiências Sociais::Psicologia
datacite.subject.sdg03:Saúde de Qualidade
dc.contributor.authorFuschini, Beatriz
dc.contributor.authorDuarte, Eva
dc.contributor.authorGomes, Hugo S.
dc.contributor.authorGouveia-Pereira, Maria
dc.date.accessioned2026-08-31T16:43:50Z
dc.date.available2026-08-31T16:43:50Z
dc.date.issued2026-06
dc.description.abstractObjective Deliberate self-harm (DSH) is a prevalent and significant public health concern. However, help-seeking remains notably low, and there is no previously published work providing a validated measurement to address the barriers to help-seeking for DSH. This study developed and validated the Questionnaire of Barriers to Help-seeking for Deliberate Self-harm (QBH-DSH), an instrument designed to measure perceived barriers to help-seeking among adolescents and young adults with a lifetime history of DSH. Methods The QBH-DSH was developed by adapting items from the Barriers to Help-seeking Scale (BHSS, Mansfield et al., 2005) and incorporating insights from interviews with a clinical sample of adolescents with a history of these behaviors and from Portuguese research on this topic. Results An initial 29-item version of the questionnaire was reduced to a 20-item scale with a four-factor structure through an exploratory and a confirmatory factor analysis. Conclusions The scale demonstrated good model fit and reliability, providing a foundation for targeted prevention and intervention strategies focused on promoting help-seeking.eng
dc.description.sponsorshipFundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia - FCT
dc.identifier.citationFuschini, B., Duarte, E., Gomes, H. S., & Gouveia-Pereira, M. (2026). Barriers to help-seeking for deliberate self-harm: construction and validation of a questionnaire for Portuguese adolescents and young adults. Current Psychology, 45(11). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-026-09046-0
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s12144-026-09046-0
dc.identifier.issn1046-1310
dc.identifier.issn1936-4733
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/14064
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedyes
dc.publisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLC
dc.relationFCT/UIDB/05299/2020
dc.relation.ispartofCurrent Psychology
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectSelf-injurious behaviors
dc.subjectSuicide
dc.subjectAdolescence
dc.subjectHelp-seeking
dc.subjectDeliberate self-harm
dc.titleBarriers to help-seeking for deliberate self-harm: Construction and validation of a questionnaire for Portuguese adolescents and young adultseng
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.endPage13
oaire.citation.issue11
oaire.citation.startPage1
oaire.citation.titleCurrent Psychology
oaire.citation.volume45
oaire.versionhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85

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