About the self-injury survey
In this survey, we want to learn more about times when you’ve hurt yourself on purpose without wanting to die. When we say self-injury, we mean doing something that causes immediate pain or physical injury.
- Self-injury includes things like cutting, burning, or scratching your skin.
- Self-injury does not include things that don’t cause immediate pain, like eating too much or too little, using drugs or alcohol, or over-exercising.
- Self-injury also does not include things that cause immediate pain but are socially acceptable, like getting piercings and tattoos.
Our survey has between 16 - 26 questions. We wrote these questions to learn more about people’s experiences with self-injury.
Why we are asking these questions
Answering these questions can help you to reflect on your experience of self-injury and will help us to do two things:
- Develop a test to help youth understand the amount of risk they have based on their current self-injury behaviors
- Create resources to help youth who self-injure and visit our site.
Some of these questions are sensitive. We are hoping to explore how people self injure and what the impact of self-injury is.
Some questions are similar, since we’re still in the process of choosing the best questions to explore this issue.
Questions may also be hard to answer because you may not remember specifics. Don’t think too much—just give your best guess!
Let’s get started.