SAYLE - Saving Young Lives Everywhere

Background

In Denmark, there is no existing register over adolescents' self-harming behaviour. The present research project is able to create connections between new knowledge and existing knowledge from registers and research results. Furthermore, it is possible to establish a European research collaboration that can contribute to an optimisation of research-based prevention of adolescents' self-harming behaviour. Research so far has shown that a self-harming behaviour influences the adolescent's everyday life, learning, work, well-fare, and is the greatest risk factor for a subsequent suicide.

Objective

The objective of this research project is, through research collaboration, to

• identify the vulnerable adolescents and intervene before the adolescents commit self-harm or suicide
• update the questionnaire so we obtain continuously snapshots of the youth culture's self-harming behaviour and international influences
• provide the adults who interact with the adolescents daily with updated knowledge in order to prevent that serious considerations of self-harm becomes self-harming actions

Method

SAYLE is a web-based electronic questionnaire that is answered at the school. Data are then analysed by the Centre for Suicide Research. The questionnaire includes

• personal relations
• lifestyle
• personal values
• behavioural risks

Status

Ongoing. Results will be presented at conferences and published the Centre's booklets, articles, newsletters etc.

The project is financially supported by the Ministry of Social Affairs, now the Ministry of Social Affairs and Integration.

Contact

The project is carried through by Director of Centre for Suicide Research, PhD Lilian Zoellner, .

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