Body piercing and adolescent risk-taking: association or expression?
Meltem Ileri, Hüsniye Yücel, Deniz Yücel, Rola Tokan, Ayşegül Şahiner, Gülsüm Ozen, Semra Cetinkaya, Ayşe Gül Güven, Zehra Aycan · 2026
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Meltem Ileri and colleagues published a 2026 cross-sectional study of body piercing and risky behavior in teenagers. The clinic-based study enrolled 141 adolescents aged twelve to nineteen in Turkey during 2025, seventy-one with at least one piercing and seventy without. Questionnaires covered smoking, alcohol and substance use, self-injury, suicidal thinking, and what the teenagers knew about piercing hygiene and complications.
Pierced adolescents reported far more risk-taking on every measure, including smoking, drinking, and positive suicide risk screening, all by wide margins. Nearly half of the pierced group had suffered local complications like redness, swelling, or pain, and only about half had been pierced in licensed studios. Knowledge scores were middling, weakest on safe settings. The authors frame piercing as one visible thread in a wider pattern of adolescent risk.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Meltem Ileri, Hüsniye Yücel, Deniz Yücel, Rola Tokan, Ayşegül Şahiner, Gülsüm Ozen, Semra Cetinkaya, Ayşe Gül Güven, Zehra Aycan |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 48 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |