Commentary: Systematic reviews and observational epidemiology: The more things change … - LaKind JS, Burns CJ, Mattison DR.
As Sir Austin Bradford Hill noted in a now-famous 1965 speech, "many an environmental association may be thrown up" [1]. At issue is how we assess those reported associations, make determinations regarding exposure-related health risks, and set limits on e...
Source: SafetyLit - September 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news

Lost in the woods: finding our way back to the scientific method in systematic review - Lynch HN, Mundt KA, Pallapies D, Ricci PF.
Systematic review has become the preferred approach to addressing causality and informing regulatory and other decision-making processes, including chemical risk assessments. While advocates of systematic reviews acknowledge that they hold great potential ...
Source: SafetyLit - September 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news

P-value, compatibility, and S-value - Mansournia MA, Nazemipour M, Etminan M.
Misinterpretations of P-values and 95% confidence intervals are ubiquitous in medical research. Specifically, the terms significance or confidence, extensively used in medical papers, ignore biases and violations of statistical assumptions and hence should...
Source: SafetyLit - September 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news

Response: Alternative approaches for systematic review - Goodman JE, Ticknor RC, Zhou J.
We appreciate the opportunity to respond to the commentaries on our paper, "Systematic Review of Perchloroethylene and Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma." [1] As noted by LaKind et al. [2], there are an overwhelming number of systematic review frameworks, many of whi...
Source: SafetyLit - September 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news

Virtual socializing and nonlinear effects on victimization - Boccio CM, Protas ME, Jackson DB, Leal WE.
Previous research documents relationships between unstructured socializing activities and in-person victimization in adolescents. In parallel, there is a body of research which has linked virtual socialization activities (i.e., social networking, texting, ...
Source: SafetyLit - September 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news

The Danger of ‘Invisible’ Biolabs Across the U.S.
Recently, many California residents were disturbed to learn that a small, privately-operated bio lab in the Central Valley town of Reedley was shut down by Fresno County Department of Public Health officials after they found that it had been improperly managing almost 1,000 laboratory mice and samples of infectious diseases including COVID-19, rubella, malaria, dengue, chlamydia, hepatitis, and HIV. The lab was registered to a company called Prestige Biotech that sold a variety of medical testing kits, including for pregnancy and COVID-19, and it was likely storing disease samples for the purpose of developing and validati...
Source: TIME: Health - August 31, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Dan Greene, Jassi Pannu and Allison Berke Tags: Uncategorized Science Source Type: news

Association between intimate partner violence and nutritional status among Indian women: a latent class analysis approach - Bhandari P, Prusty RK, Begum S.
BACKGROUND: Intimate partner violence (IPV) is an unabating public health issue that has numerous negative repercussions for women's health. Its detrimental impact on women's nutritional outcomes has been documented in a few studies from low- and middle-in...
Source: SafetyLit - August 31, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news

Concordance between the Ask Suicide Screening Questions (ASQ) and Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors Interview-Self Report (SITBI-SR) among autistic and non-autistic adults - Mournet AM, Bal VH, Kleiman EM.
This study sought to examine concordance between two commonly used measures of suicidal thoughts and behaviors: the Ask Suicide-Screening Questions (ASQ) and the Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors Interview-Self Report (SITBI-SR). Agreement w...
Source: SafetyLit - August 31, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news

Etiology and perception of suicide: cultural explanation of suicide from Javanese perspective - Nurdiyanto FA, Subandi S.
The suicide rate in Java is increasingly worrying. Furthermore, there is still a limited exploration of suicide in Javanese culture. This qualitative research intended to explore the perception of suicide in the Javanese with Arthur Kleinman's explanatory ...
Source: SafetyLit - August 31, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news

Group psychological abuse perpetration: development and validation of a measure using classical and modern test theory - Salda ña O, Antelo E, Rodríguez-Carballeira.
OBJECTIVE: The Psychological Abuse Perpetrated in Groups Scale (PAPGS) is a new measure aimed to assess psychological abuse behaviors perpetrated by members of groups where control, manipulation, and coercion strategies are inflicted to recruit and dominat...
Source: SafetyLit - August 31, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news

Seeing through noise in power laws - Lin Q, Newberry M.
Despite widespread claims of power laws across the natural and social sciences, evidence in data is often equivocal. Modern data and statistical methods reject even classic power laws such as Pareto's law of wealth and the Gutenberg-Richter law for earthqu...
Source: SafetyLit - August 31, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news

Suicide risk in personality disorders: a systematic review - McClelland H, Cleare S, O'Connor RC.
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: This systematic review aimed to distil recent literature investigating psychosocial factors which may account for the association between personality disorder (PD) and suicide attempt or suicide death. RECENT FINDINGS: Suicide risk is pa...
Source: SafetyLit - August 31, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news

The significance of unusual acts in sexual homicide - Sun P, Beauregard E, Chopin J.
In addition to being an unusual form of crime, sexual homicide (SH) sometimes includes unusual crime scene behaviours, such as carving on the victim, evisceration (i.e., removal of internal organs), skinning the victim, cannibalism and vampirism. The curre...
Source: SafetyLit - August 31, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news

An integrated deep-learning and multi-level framework for understanding the behavior of terrorist groups - Jiang D, Wu J, Ding F, Ide T, Scheffran J, Helman D, Zhang S, Qian Y, Fu J, Chen S, Xie X, Ma T, Hao M, Ge Q.
Human security is threatened by terrorism in the 21st century. A rapidly growing field of study aims to understand terrorist attack patterns for counter-terrorism policies. Existing research aimed at predicting terrorism from a single perspective, typicall...
Source: SafetyLit - August 30, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news

Analysis of socio-demographic profiles of suicidal hanging cases to formulate a preventive strategy: an autopsy-based study conducted at a tertiary care hospital in the north-east region of India - Barman S, Bairagi KK.
Introduction Hanging is a common method of suicide in India and worldwide. Analyzing the socio-demographic characteristics to formulate a preventive strategy to reduce the incidence of suicide by hanging is often considered a low-cost but effective interve...
Source: SafetyLit - August 30, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news

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