Official incidents of inmate-on-inmate misconduct at a women's prison: using importation and deprivation theories to compare perpetrators to victims - Lahm K.
Importation and deprivation theories have long been used to explain prison misconduct and victimization among male inmates. However, the key variables from these theories have rarely been tested on female inmates. In addition, many of these existing studie...
Source: SafetyLit - August 7, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news

Sex differences in the effect of childhood trauma on the clinical expression of early psychosis - Garcia M, Montalvo I, Creus M, Cabezas, Solé M, Algora MJ, Moreno I, Gutiérrez-Zotes A, Labad J.
Childhood trauma, a risk factor of psychosis, is associated the clinical expression of the illness (greater severity of psychotic symptoms; poorer cognitive performance). We aimed to explore whether there are sex differences in this relationship. We studie...
Source: SafetyLit - June 26, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

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Updated Date: Jun 23, 2016 EST
Source: DailyMed Drug Label Updates - June 23, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: alerts

Maternal mind-mindedness provides a buffer for pre-adolescents at risk for disruptive behavior - Hughes C, Aldercotte A, Foley S.
Maternal mind-mindedness, defined as the propensity to view one's child as an agent with independent thoughts and feelings, mitigates the impact of low maternal education on conduct problems in young children (Meins et al. 2013), but has been little studie...
Source: SafetyLit - May 21, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Outpatient dialectical behavior therapy for adolescents engaged in deliberate self-harm: conceptual and methodological considerations - Freeman KR, James S, Klein KP, Mayo D, Montgomery S.
The current review examines conceptual and methodological issues related to the use of dialectical behavior therapy for adolescents (DBT-A) in treating youth who engage in deliberate self-harm. A comprehensive review of the literature identified six studie...
Source: SafetyLit - March 25, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Multitrait-multimethod analysis of the strengths and difficulties questionnaire in young Asian American children - Yu J, Sun S, Cheah CS.
The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is a widely used psychopathology screening tool that measures children's emotional symptoms, peer problems, conduct problems, hyperactivity/inattention, and prosocial behavior. Previous psychometric studie...
Source: SafetyLit - January 18, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Possible recovery or unavoidable fall? A model to predict the one step balance recovery threshold and its stepping characteristics - Vallée P, Tisserand R, Robert T.
In order to prevent fall related injuries and their consequences, one needs to be able to predict the outcome of a given balance perturbation: a possible Balance Recovery (BR) or an unavoidable fall? Given that results from the existing experimental studie...
Source: SafetyLit - January 18, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Evaluation of the general deterrence capacity of recently implemented (2009-2010) low and Zero BAC requirements for drivers in Ontario - Byrne PA, Ma T, Mann RE, Elzohairy Y.
The number of injuries and fatalities associated with drinking and driving continues to decline in the province of Ontario. However, this behavior remains as one of the major contributors to collision-related injuries and fatalities. Few large-scale studie...
Source: SafetyLit - January 18, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Xylazine and its speedball combination: induction of apoptosis by intrinsic and extrinsic pathway in human umbilical vein endothelial cells - Silva-Torres LA, Velez C, Zayas B.
Emerging drugs of abuse, such as xylazine (XYL), are receiving great interest due to increasing use and the potential health toxicity effects, in the addict population. XYL is an alpha two agonist without medical applications in humans. Our previous studie...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - December 10, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Washington DC welcomes Bristol Fellows
Two postgraduate students at the University of Bristol have been offered fellowships under the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s (AHRC) International Placement Scheme (IPS). The Fellowships will be based at the Library of Congress in Washington DC, USA.
Source: University of Bristol news - October 27, 2015 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Announcements, Grants and Awards, International, Postgraduate, Research; Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Arts, School of Humanities, Faculty of Social Sciences and Law, Faculty of Social Sciences and Law, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studie Source Type: news

Greater number of group identifications is associated with lower odds of being depressed: evidence from a Scottish community sample - Sani F, Madhok V, Norbury M, Dugard P, Wakefield JR.
PURPOSE: Group identification has been shown to be associated with reduced risk of depression, but this research has important limitations. Our aim was to establish a robust link between group identification and depression whilst overcoming previous studie...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - July 12, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Suicide and Self-Harm Source Type: news

Even Albert Einstein needed more than curiosity to become a great physicist | Letters
While I agree with Maulfry Worthington (Letters, 19 June) that our schools should encourage more curiosity, it is unfortunate that she repeats the near-calumny that Einstein was a “patent clerk” who would “become” a great physicist. In fact Einstein worked as a technical examiner at the Eidgenössisches Institut für Geistiges Eigentum (the Swiss Federal Intellectual Property Office) in 1902-09 to support himself while he completed his PhD thesis in physics and did his early work on quantum mechanics and special relativity. He was already published in Annalen der Physik before joining the patent office. Ein...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - June 21, 2015 Category: Science Authors: Letters Tags: Albert Einstein Science Physics Schools Education Source Type: news

Onxeo offentliggør endelige data fra gennemført fase II-studie med Validive® til forebyggelse af svær oral mucositis hos patienter med hoved-halskræft
Source: Medical News (via PRIMEZONE) - May 26, 2015 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

Assessment of dissociation among combat-exposed soldiers with and without posttraumatic stress disorder - Özdemir B, Celik C, Oznur T.
BACKGROUND: Dissociation is a disruption of and/or discontinuity in the normal, subjective integration of one or more aspects of psychological functioning, including memory, identity, consciousness, perception, and motor control. A limited number of studie...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - May 2, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Ecological validity of walking capacity tests in multiple sclerosis - Stellmann JP, Neuhaus A, Götze N, Briken S, Lederer C, Schimpl M, Heesen C, Daumer M.
BACKGROUND: Ecological validity implicates in how far clinical assessments refer to real life. Short clinical gait tests up to ten meters and 2- or 6-Minutes Walking Tests (2MWT/6MWT) are used as performance-based outcomes in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) studie...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - April 18, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

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