One boarding school survivor chooses to hold a bundle of sweetgrass, sage and other healing herbs as she sits for a photo in Michigan.
Archive for October 2024
Machine-assisted social psychology hypothesis generation
The relationship between insecure attachment and nicotine dependence among users of classic cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and heated tobacco products: a moderated mediation model
Exploring and Celebrating the Older Adult LGBTQ+ Community
A memory quilt created in a collaboration between UWM, MIAD, House of History MKE, and Diverse & Resilient was on display at the UWM Student Gerontology Association’s Oct. 15 event exploring and celebrating the older adult LGBTQ+ community.
Attitude toward innovation and its implications for rural community development in Mexican peasant organizations
Spatial and Racial/Ethnic Variation in the Prevalence of Cesarean Delivery in a South Carolina Medical Center
Financial, Social, and Health Impacts from the COVID-19 Pandemic: Findings from the Healthy Chicago Survey
Usefulness of urine dipstick test in the management of adverse events associated with immune checkpoint inhibitors
Home Ownership in America: A Socio-Cultural History of Housing in the United States
Breast Cancer Awareness
The Canadian family-friendly community resources study for better balance, health and well-being
Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health: Workforce 2030—A Five-Year Check-In
Estimates of the Lifetime Productivity Costs of Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, and Syphilis in the United States
HIV symptom severity and associated factors among young people with HIV in Ghana
Where Is the Workforce? Understanding the U.S. Labor Shortage and Working Toward Solutions
Policy Surveillance Self-Guided Training
Video Games Are a Key Battleground in the Propaganda War
By the late 1990s, the US Department of Defense was beginning to sense the power of the games industry over adolescent men — the Department’s main audience — and created a campaign of recruitment and manipulation around gaming. Serious institutional power underwrote the move to tie the global video games industry to the Western military complex. The Pentagon spent more than $150 million on military-themed games or simulations in 1999 alone, with another $70 million injection in 2008 and still more since, all on projects with their own, very particular political agenda.
Depression is associated with poor self-reported adherence to antiretroviral therapy among people living with HIV attending an HIV clinic in the UK: results from a cross-sectional study
Teacher-related factors associated with teacher–child interaction quality in preschool education
An increasing number of Dutch people have completed higher education
Preventing Child Welfare System Inequities: A Pediatrician’s View on the Roles of Primary Care and Medicaid
Deaths registered weekly in England and Wales, provisional: week ending 27 September 2024
Performance of an Electronic Medical Record–Based “Syphilis Flag” in Identifying At-Risk Patients in an Emergency Department
The Mediating Role of Insomnia Severity in the Relationship Between Anxiety Symptoms and Suicidal Ideation: A Real-World Study in a Psychiatric Inpatient Setting
Mpox vaccine is safe and generates a robust antibody response in adolescents
A National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded clinical trial of an mpox vaccine in adolescents found it was safe and generated an antibody response equivalent to that seen in adults, according to a planned interim analysis of study data. Adolescents are among the population groups affected by mpox in the current Clade I mpox outbreak.
When tourism intersects traditional rural livelihoods: A case study on lagoon fishing in Thừa Thiên Huế Province, Vietnam
On Uncertainty
Foreseeably Early Deaths in Patients With Psychiatric Disorders: Challenges in Caring for Patients Manifesting Likely Fatal Trajectories
Integrating randomized controlled trials and non-randomized studies of interventions to assess the effect of rare events: a Bayesian re-analysis of two meta-analyses
Perceived discrimination and refraining from seeking physician’s care in Sweden: an intersectional analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (AIHDA)
Adult Social Care Update
The Impact of Childhood Trauma on the Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia
Revealed: Widespread breaches of basic care standards at residential disability centres
Our investigative unit examined more than 900 inspection reports from the Health Information and Quality Authority (Hiqa) in 2023. We found that charitable-run disability centres were significantly less compliant than those managed directly by the HSE. Above: Hiqa offices in Dublin
Migrants’ community building in two Montenegrin informal neighborhoods
Community development strategies to meet challenges of potential impacts of rapid economic development in Thailand
The Resurgence of Exogenous Psychosis: A Phenomenological Examination of Substance-Induced Psychopathology
Over-the-Counter Topical Analgesics: Benefits and Risks for Older Adults
Over-the-Counter Topical Analgesics: Benefits and Risks for Older Adults
Insights Into Treatment Alternatives for Neurosyphilis: Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis
How fathers’ values matter for work–family decisions and partner support: a capability approach
Development and Validation of Interpersonal Mindfulness in Parenting Scale Among Chinese Mothers of Infants in the First Year of Life
The impact of different imputation methods on estimates and model performance: an example using a risk prediction model for premature mortality
“Pandemic stress made him do it!”: COVID-19-related threat predicts vicarious justification for assaulting Chinese men—especially those with strong ethnic identity
GAR Special Report 2024 Forensic Insights for Future Resilience: Learning from Past Disasters
Will AI tools revolutionize public health? Not if they continue following old patterns, researchers argue
Proponents of AI envision the technology helping to manage health care supply chains, monitor disease outbreaks, make diagnoses, interpret medical images, and even reduce equity gaps in access to care by compensating for healthcare worker shortages. But others are sounding the alarm about issues like privacy rights, racial and gender biases in models, lack of transparency in AI decision-making processes that could lead to patient care mistakes, and even the potential for insurance companies to use AI to discriminate against people with poor health
Home‐based elderly care development in Hebei Province, China: A systematic literature review
Kelly Family Charitable Trust
Students who feel more university connection may be more likely to binge drink, study finds
The researchers examined data from 4,018 university students collected during the 2022-23 school year. Participants answered questions about substance use, their sense of belonging at their school and their mental health — specifically about anxiety, depressive symptoms, perceived stress, flourishing in life and confidence in their academic success.