Associations Between Access to Food Stores and Adolescent Body Mass Index

Summarizes a study of the link between the availability of supermarkets and other types of food stores and adolescents' body mass index and overweight prevalence in a neighborhood. Compares associations by race/ethnicity and mother's employment status

Harnessing a public health asset

Health Visitor posts are being axed by Local Authorities as the resource was not ring fenced when commissioning transferred, this is despite the massive public expenditure on the HV Implementation Programme between 2011 and 2016. Public Health remains a priority in the UK and this asset needs to be retained. This paper explores how public health nurses can remain in the public health arena

AN EXAMINATION OF LOCAL TELEVISION ARCHIVES

This study examined local television archives and collected data on the administrative issues of content, condition, funding, licensing rights, fee structure, promotion, and prioritization of needs. One intent of this work was to create a plan for the John Carroll University Northeast Ohio Broadcast Archives (JCU NOBA) that addresses operational concerns to provide suggestions for future development. Twenty-five local television archives responded to a survey on these administrative areas. A subset of local television news archives was developed to draw comparisons between all the respondents and the more focused subset group. Most results saw large similarities between the all the respondents and the local television news subset. Areas emerging from the research as notable were database management, digitization, licensing, funding, and promotions. One of the major problem areas for local television archives is a lack of digitized materials. For aging video formats, this has become an urgent issue. Survey results indicated that future research should be conducted around licensing and funding. The results also indicated that the greatest area for funding was from the institution that oversees the archive. There is a variance in licensing rates and a need for increased promotion. There are direct connections between promoting the archive and funding the archive. With greater promotion, archives are likely to experience greater income through licensing fees. Overall, the best way to ensure an archive’s success is for archive directors to develop a multi-faceted approach to operations. This plan should include funding, promotion, and preservation

Attitudes Toward Police among College Students: Differences among Race, Social Work Status, and University History

Minority populations often have more negative attitudes toward the police than their White counterparts. This study explored the differences between Black college students’ attitudes towards the police in comparison to White college students. Using a sample of 1,108 students from a traditional flagship university and a Historically Black College University, the study sought to seek out differences in attitudes toward the police based on race, social work student status, and university history. Results indicated a significant difference between Black students’ attitudes toward the police when compared with their White student counterparts. Results also indicated a significant difference in attitudes toward the police when comparing university histor

Deliberate Self-Harm in Young Children

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)While deliberate self-harm (DSH) in adolescents and adults has been established as a reliable predictor of future suicidal behavior and attempts, whether the same is true for younger children has rarely been studied. Two separate articles will address issues regarding intentional self-injury in young children. The first identified describes the demographic profile of young children who engage in NSSI and evaluated whether predictors of adolescent NSSI are also associated with NSSI in children. The second manuscript analyzed NSSI behaviors to see if they can be correctly predicted from knowledge of a child's history of maltreatment to identify which trauma variables are central in prediction of NSSI status. A Chi-square and logistic regression were run on data from 16,271 records of children ages 5-9 years who received services from the IDMHA in 2018. NSSI was significantly (p < .000) associated with trauma history (x2 = 75.54, df = 1), anxiety (x2 = 107.59, df = 1), depression (x2 = 217.011, df = 1), suicide risk (x2= 993, df = 1), and impulsivity (x2 = 122.49, df = 1. Presence of a caregiver mental health problem (x2 =38.29, df = 1), age (x2 = 14.18, df = 4), being male (x2 = 11.59, df = 1), and being Caucasian (x2 = 23.29, df = 6) at p < .05. Regression results indicated the overall model of seven predictors (sexual abuse [OR 1.14], physical abuse [OR 1.26], emotional abuse [OR1.3], neglect [OR .895], medical trauma [OR 1.34], exposure to natural disaster [OR 1.81] and victim of a crime [1.14] was statistically reliable in distinguishing between children who self-injure and those who do not. [-2 Log Likelihood = 6228.78, x2(6) = 105.416, p < .000]. NSSI does occur in preadolescent children and while there is some indication that the risk factors and co-variates are like those of adolescents, there are some differences which need further study. Training clinicians to inquire about self-injury during assessment of younger children is a simple step. The variables of age and sex throughout development as well as identifying protective as well as risk factors with children should be studied

Supervisors\u27 Reports of the Effects of Supervisor Self-Disclosure on Supervisees

Using consensual qualitative research, researchers interviewed 16 supervisors regarding their use of self-disclosure in supervision. Supervisors reported that their prior training in supervisor self-disclosure (SRSD) came via didactic sources and encouraged judicious use of SRSD. Supervisors used SRSD to enhance supervisee development and normalize their experiences; supervisors did not use SRSD when it derailed supervision or was developmentally inappropriate for supervisees. In describing specific examples of the intervention, SRSD occurred in good supervision relationships, was stimulated by supervisees struggling, was intended to teach or normalize, and focused on supervisors\u27 reactions to their own or their supervisees\u27 clients. SRSD yielded largely positive effects on supervisors, supervisees, the supervision relationship, and supervisors\u27 supervision of others