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What are the Effects of Mothersâ and Fathersâ Depression and Thoughts of Death on Their Childrenâs Level of Parental Connectedness?
Mental health outcomes such as depression are often passed down in families. While links between the mental health conditions of parents and their children have been established, there is a limited understanding of these outcomes over time and the impact that mothers and fathers have on their children independently. Analyzing data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study, PRC faculty research associates Susan De Luca and Yolanda Padilla and co-author Yan Yueqi show that children felt less connected to both mothers and fathers with mental health symptoms, but the effects varied somewhat based on the sex of the parent.Population Research Cente
The Associations of Race/Ethnicity and Suicidal Ideation among College Students: A Latent Class Analysis Examining Precipitating Events and Disclosure Patterns
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: De Luca, S., Yan, Y., Lytle, M. and Brownson, C. (2014), The Associations of Race/Ethnicity and Suicidal Ideation among College Students: A Latent Class Analysis Examining Precipitating Events and Disclosure Patterns. Suicide Life Threat Behav, 44: 444â456. doi:10.1111/sltb.12102, which has been published in final form at http://doi.org/10.1111/sltb.12102. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.The aim of this paper was to examine precipitating events for suicidal ideation and how these experiences relate to disclosure in a diverse sample of college students. Among non-Hispanic White students, relationship/academic problems were most associated with ideation. A romantic break-up increased the odds of getting help. Among racial/ethnic minority students, family/academic problems were most associated with ideation and students who reported multiple events were less likely to get help compared to those not reporting events. Future research should examine the reasons for interpersonal conflict among this high-risk group, their attitudes about help-seeking, and identify cultural norms associated with disclosure
Influence of socio-cultural factors and gender on waste behaviour of travellers: Insights from 11 touristic destinations in Europe
In the course of a global increase of tourism, the need to deal with waste generation, management and prevention caused by tourism activities requires increased attention. In this regard, touristsâ behaviour is a crucial factor for improving the efficacy and efficiency of the waste strategies in place.
Touristsâ behaviour has been extensively studied in terms of environmental awareness, while less attention has been given to behaviour and attitudes of tourists in terms of waste generation and prevention. Especially, the socio-cultural and gender component have been hardly addressed in available research. There is some evidence about differences in environmental attitudes and behaviour between tourists from different countries of origin, just as there is evidence of different attitudes towards the environment between men and women, but these two sets of evidences are not integrated, and certainly not with regard to waste behaviour.
The present study was developed as part of the H2020 project âURBANWASTEâ that aims at understanding the influence of tourism on waste management and production and at developing eco-innovative and gender sensitive strategies for waste prevention and management in 11 European pilot cases.
Particularly, this study aimed at analysing and understanding the role and effect of socio-cultural factors (e.g. place of residence, age, education) and gender on âwaste behaviourâ of tourists; the study includes the touristsâ behaviour at home in comparison to their behaviour on holidays and accounts, hence, also for âbehavioural gapsâ between home- vs. holiday-behaviour
An Exploratory Study of Nonsuicidal Self-Injury and Suicidal Behaviors in Adolescent Latinas
To date, there is little research to validate empirically differences between nonsuicidal self-injurious behavior (NSSI) and attempted suicide among Latina adolescents. Understanding the characteristics and contextual features of self-harmful behaviors among Latina teens is a critical public health and social justice matter given the disproportionate rates of attempted suicide and anticipated population growth of this vulnerable group. In this article, we draw on an ecodevelopmental model to focus attention on factors in the sociocultural environment that shape suicidal behaviors and NSSIs. Through analysis of qualitative interviews conducted with girls who used NSSI (n ! 18), attempted suicide (n ! 29), used NSSI and attempted suicide (n ! 8,) and had no reported lifetime history of self-harm (n ! 28), we describe the sociocultural factors that shaped psychosocial vulnerabilities and gave rise to decisions to use NSSI or attempt suicide. Our analysis revealed that adolescents who engaged in NSSI perceived their negative feelings as something that could be controlled through self-injurious acts, whereas powerlessness was a theme underlying the emotional states of girls who attempted suicide. When NSSI ceased to function as a mechanism for control, girls came to sudden decisions to attempt suicide. Most teens identified specific, and often multiple, situations that induced intense affective states and shaped decisions to inflict self-harm. Two situational experiences emerged as particularly salient and promising for subsequent studies on self-harmful behaviors among Latina adolescents: transnational stress and bullying. We describe each of these and offer suggestions for future research and practice
An Exploratory Study of Nonsuicidal Self-Injury and Suicidal Behaviors in Adolescent Latinas
To date, there is little research to validate empirically differences between nonsuicidal self-injurious behavior (NSSI) and attempted suicide among Latina adolescents. Understanding the characteristics and contextual features of self-harmful behaviors among Latina teens is a critical public health and social justice matter given the disproportionate rates of attempted suicide and anticipated population growth of this vulnerable group. In this article, we draw on an ecodevelopmental model to focus attention on factors in the sociocultural environment that shape suicidal behaviors and NSSIs. Through analysis of qualitative interviews conducted with girls who used NSSI (n ! 18), attempted suicide (n ! 29), used NSSI and attempted suicide (n ! 8,) and had no reported lifetime history of self-harm (n ! 28), we describe the sociocultural factors that shaped psychosocial vulnerabilities and gave rise to decisions to use NSSI or attempt suicide. Our analysis revealed that adolescents who engaged in NSSI perceived their negative feelings as something that could be controlled through self-injurious acts, whereas powerlessness was a theme underlying the emotional states of girls who attempted suicide. When NSSI ceased to function as a mechanism for control, girls came to sudden decisions to attempt suicide. Most teens identified specific, and often multiple, situations that induced intense affective states and shaped decisions to inflict self-harm. Two situational experiences emerged as particularly salient and promising for subsequent studies on self-harmful behaviors among Latina adolescents: transnational stress and bullying. We describe each of these and offer suggestions for future research and practice
From Roots to Routes ⊠to Borders: Trans-Coastal Narratives across the Mediterranean
Environment and bladder cancer: molecular analysis by interaction networks
Bladder cancer (BC) is the 9th most common cancer worldwide, and the 6th
most common cancer in men. Its development is linked to chronic inflammation,
genetic susceptibility, smoking, occupational exposures and environmental pollutants.
Aim of this work was to identify a sub-network of genes/proteins modulated by
environmental or arsenic exposure in BC by computational network approaches.
Our studies evidenced the presence of HUB nodes both in âBC and environmentâ
and âBC and arsenicalsâ networks. These HUB nodes resulted to be correlated to
circadian genes and targeted by some miRNAs already reported as involved in BC, thus
suggesting how they play an important role in BC development due to environmental
or arsenic exposure. Through data-mining analysis related to putative effect of the
identified HUB nodes on survival we identified genes/proteins and their mutations on
which it will be useful to focus further experimental studies related to the evaluation
of their expression in biological matrices and to their utility as biomarkers of BC developmen
Ability-Based Methods for Personalized Keyboard Generation
This study introduces an ability-based method for personalized keyboard
generation, wherein an individual's own movement and human-computer interaction
data are used to automatically compute a personalized virtual keyboard layout.
Our approach integrates a multidirectional point-select task to characterize
cursor control over time, distance, and direction. The characterization is
automatically employed to develop a computationally efficient keyboard layout
that prioritizes each user's movement abilities through capturing directional
constraints and preferences. We evaluated our approach in a study involving 16
participants using inertial sensing and facial electromyography as an access
method, resulting in significantly increased communication rates using the
personalized keyboard (52.0 bits/min) when compared to a generically optimized
keyboard (47.9 bits/min). Our results demonstrate the ability to effectively
characterize an individual's movement abilities to design a personalized
keyboard for improved communication. This work underscores the importance of
integrating a user's motor abilities when designing virtual interfaces.Comment: 20 pages, 7 figure
Preparation and Support of Patients through the Transplant Process: Understanding the Recipients' Perspectives
Preparation for heart transplant commonly includes booklets, instructional videos, personalized teaching sessions, and mentorship. This paper explores heart transplant recipients' thoughts on their preparation and support through the transplant process. Twenty-five interviews were audio-/videotaped capturing voice and body language and transcribed verbatim. Coding addressed language, bodily gesture, volume, and tone in keeping with our visual methodology. Recipients reported that only someone who had a transplant truly understands the experience. As participants face illness and life-altering experiences, maintaining a positive attitude and hope is essential to coping well. Healthcare professionals provide ongoing care and reassurance about recipients' medical status. Mentors, family members, and close friends play vital roles in supporting recipients. Participants reported that only heart transplant recipients understood the experience, the hope, and ultimately the suffering associated with living with another persons' heart. Attention needs to be focused not solely on the use of teaching modalities, but also on the development of innovative support networks. This will promote patient and caregiver engagement in self-management. Enhancing clinicians' knowledge of the existential aspects of transplantation will provide them with a nuanced understanding of the patients' experience, which will ultimately enhance their ability to better prepare and support patients and their caregivers
Correction to: Effects of immune suppression for transplantation on inflammatory colorectal cancer progression (Oncogenesis, (2018), 7, 6, (46), 10.1038/s41389-018-0055-5)
At the time of publication, the html version of this paper contained an error; the authors Imerio Angriman and Lucrezia Furian were not tagged as equally contributing authors. This has now been fixed in the html version of the paper, the PDF was correct at the time of publication.
Erratum for
Effects of immune suppression for transplantation on inflammatory colorectal cancer progression. [Oncogenesis. 2018
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