A review on Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in Iranian Young adults and Adolescents

Self-harm is one of the strongest predictions of suicide attempts which is categorized into different types. Non-suicidal self-injury attempts is a part of this division, which has become a common phenomenon in schools and universities, but the extent of understanding its process requires more investigations. Since various studies have been conducted in different parts of Iran, more detailed review on this subject and final conclusion in this regard is necessary. In this review, keywords including adolescent, young, self-injury behavior, non-suicidal self-injury, self-mutilation, deliberate self-harm and prevalence were searched through SID, Magiran, Google Scholar and PubMed sources in English and Persian languages. In this way, 6 English and 10 Persian articles were obtained. Finally, 3 English and 3 Persian articles were used. The results of various relevant studies indicated that the prevalence of non suicidal self-injury was 4.3% to 40.5% in Iran.