@article{Singtakaew_Chaimongkol_Hengudomsub_2021, title={Predicting Factors of Deliberated Self-Harm among Thai Adolescents}, volume={22}, url={https://he01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/JRTAN/article/view/246508}, abstractNote={<p>This descriptive predictive research aimed to examine deliberate self-harm (DSH) and determine its predictors. A multi-stage random sampling was used to recruit the sample of 360 Thai adolescents aged 10-19 years who were studying in secondary schools in northern Thailand. The data were collected from July 2019 to January 2020. The research instruments were 7 self-report questionnaires. Their consistency reliability ranged from 0.81-0.89. Descriptive statistics, Pearson’s correlation coefficients, and stepwise multiple regression were used for data analyses.</p> <p>Results revealed that the participants had their DSH in the past six months about 3-14 times with a mean score of 6.11 (SD = 2.83). The best predicting factor was stress (ß = .271, <em>p</em> <.001), following by sex (male) (ß = .197, <em>p</em> <.001), student-school connectedness (ß = .193, <em>p</em> <.001), self-control (ß = -.187, <em>p</em> <.001), and resilience (ß = -.172, <em>p</em> <.01). These five significant predicting factors were together accounted for 18.80% (R<sup>2</sup> = 0.188, Adj. R<sup>2</sup> = 0.177, F<sub>5,354</sub> = 16.422, <em>p</em> <.001) in the variance of DSH. These findings suggest that school nurses, teacher or related interdisciplinary personnel could be utilize as foundation knowledge to develop activities or programs to strengthen student-school connectedness, self-control and resilience, as well as diminish stress among Thai school adolescents to prevent DSH in male and female adolescents by more focused on male adolescents.</p>}, number={3}, journal={Journal of The Royal Thai Army Nurses}, author={Singtakaew, Arunothai and Chaimongkol, Nujjaree and Hengudomsub, Pornpat}, year={2021}, month={Dec.}, pages={294–303} }