An ice jam flood hazard assessment of a lowland river and its terminus inland delta - Williams B, Das A, Luo B, Lindenschmidt KE.
Flooding is one of the most frequent and most costly natural disasters that occur throughout Canada, and although there is ongoing work to update and improve flood hazard assessments and mapping of high flood risk rivers throughout the country, most studie...
Source: SafetyLit - March 1, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Disaster Preparedness Source Type: news

An investigation of the relationship between cyberbullying, cybervictimization and depression symptoms: A cross sectional study among university students in Qatar - Alrajeh SM, Hassan HM, Al-Ahmed AS, Alsayed Hassan D.
BACKGROUND: Cyberbullying is a modern form of bullying that could be practiced electronically or on the internet. It is related to different mental health issues such as depression, which can affect both the cyberbully and the victim. Although a few studie...
Source: SafetyLit - December 13, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

A 2018-2019 snapshot of psychological screening rejection rates: perceived trends reported by police/public safety psychologists - Inwald R, Thompson N.
Complaints that there are "fewer applicants" and/or "less qualified candidates" applying for positions as police/public safety officers may reflect a larger or growing problem in this field's recruitment efforts today. The two surveys and six survey studie...
Source: SafetyLit - November 8, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

A novel approach for understanding trauma-related youth violence in low resource contexts: a retrospective case file review in Northern Ireland - Walsh C, Doherty K, Best P.
Adverse life events during childhood have been associated with increased rates of violence. Despite decades of violent conflict, there continues to be a paucity of contextually relevant data related to youth violence in Northern Ireland. Prospective studie...
Source: SafetyLit - September 21, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Gender-specific differences in depressive behavior among forensic psychiatric patients - Streb J, Ruppel E, M öller-Leimkühler AM, Büsselmann M, Franke I, Dudeck M.
BACKGROUND: Women are almost twice as likely to develop depression than men, but men commit suicide more often. One explanation for this paradox is that current depression inventories do not fully capture typical male symptoms of depression. Several studie...
Source: SafetyLit - September 12, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Suicide and Self-Harm Source Type: news

Examining the item-level factor structure of the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function - Adult version within a TBI sample - Wen PS, Waid-Ebbs JK, Heaton SC, Starosciak AK, Gonzalez-Arias S.
OBJECTIVE: To conduct the first item level exploration of scale and index structure of the self-report Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function-Adult version (BRIEF-A) in traumatic brain injury (TBI). SETTING: Data were collected through five studie...
Source: SafetyLit - August 11, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Re: More evidences are needed in reducing the suicide risk in head and neck cancer patients - Twigg JA, Anderson JM, Humphris G, Nixon I, Rogers SN, Kanatas A.
We thank the authors for their interest in our review paper 'Best practice in reducing the suicide risk in head and neck cancer patients: a structured review' and for their constructive and insightful comments. While there are multiple observational studie...
Source: SafetyLit - July 28, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news

Refining distraction potential testing guidelines by considering differences in glancing behavior - Grahn H, Taipalus T.
Driver distraction is a recognized cause of traffic accidents. Although the well-known guidelines for measuring distraction of secondary in-car tasks were published by the United States National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in 2013, studie...
Source: SafetyLit - June 7, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Distraction, Fatigue, Chronobiology, Vigilance, Workload Source Type: news

"There's no place like home": examining the associations between state eviction defense protections and indicators of biopsychosocial stress among survivors of intimate partner violence - Willie TC, Linton SL, Whittaker S, Mart ínez I, Sharpless L, Kershaw T.
Housing instability is prevalent among intimate partner violence (IPV) survivors and a source of biopsychosocial stress among this population. Eviction policies play an important role in determining housing instability of IPV survivors. However, few studie...
Source: SafetyLit - May 24, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Identifying treatment moderators of a trauma-informed parenting intervention with children in foster care: using model-based recursive partitioning - Chung G, Ansong D, Brevard KC, Chen DG.
BACKGROUND: Trauma-informed parenting interventions have been used in child welfare to help caregivers respond to children in trauma-informed ways that can mitigate the effects of maltreatment and build strong caregiver-child relationships. Existing studie...
Source: SafetyLit - April 19, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

The role of emotional intelligence on psychological adjustment and peer victimization in a sample of Spanish adolescents - Ca ñas E, Estévez JF, Estévez E, Aparisi D.
In the last decades, interest in the study of the negative consequences of bullying for the victims has increased. Victims are often known to show emotional adjustment issues, such as negative self-concept and low life satisfaction. Moreover, some studie...
Source: SafetyLit - January 6, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

The fentanyl phase of the opioid epidemic in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States - Deo VS, Gilson TP, Kaspar C, Singer ME.
Since late 2014, fentanyl has become the major driver of opioid mortality in the United States. However, a descriptive analysis of fentanyl victims is limited. We studied the 2016 fentanyl and heroin overdose deaths and compared them to previously studie...
Source: SafetyLit - January 6, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Care bundles for improving outcomes in patients with COVID19 or related conditions in intensive care a rapid scoping review, Cochrane Library
Main results We included 21 studies and identified three ongoing studies. The studies were of variable designs and included a systematic review of standardised approaches to caring for critically ill patients in ICU, including but not exclusive to care bundles (1 study), a randomised trial (1 study), prospecti ve and retrospective cohort studies (4 studies), before and after studies (7 studies), observational quality improvement reports (4 studies), case series/case reports (3 studies) and audit (1 study). The studies were conducted in eight countries, most commonly China (5 studies) and the USA (4 studie s), were publis...
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - January 4, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Measures implemented in the school setting to contain the COVID19 pandemic: a rapid scoping review, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Objectives: To identify and comprehensively map the evidence assessing the impacts of measures implemented in the school setting to reopen schools, or keep schools open, or both, during the SARS ‐CoV‐2/COVID‐19 pandemic, with particular focus on the types of measures implemented in different school settings, the outcomes used to measure their impacts and the study types used to assess these. Methods: We conducted a rapid scoping review to meet these objectives. The goal of a sc oping review is to identify and map the available evidence ( 2 External 0 0 0 Anderson 2008 false https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/do...
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - December 23, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news