Evaluation of the hygienic and sanitary conditions of the public restrooms in Boa Vista, Roraima, Brazil / Avaliação das condições higiénicas e sanitárias dos lavabos públicos em Boa Vista, Roraima, Brasil

Background: This paper evaluates the hygienic and sanitary conditions of the public’s restrooms in Boa Vista, Roraima, Brazil.Methods: The study used questionnaires to collect information on hygiene and sanitation of public toilets. Descriptive statistics were used to evaluate raw data in this study to evaluate hygienic and sanitary conditions of the public’s restrooms in Boa Vista, Brazil.Results: A good number of the public toilets had basic facilities such as water, paper towel, and port liquid soap and fitted with signalling tools. About, 19 (38%) toilets were clean while 13 (26%) were not clean.Conclusions: To ensure that public toilets have the necessary sanitary and hygiene conditions, maintenance and cleaning should be carried out by strategic spatial policy makers within local administrations. Public toilets that are accessible, and have basic facilities in good working condition, odourless, dry floor and meets user needs is a fundamental for good health

Personality assessment inventory (PAI) in forensic and correctional settings: A comprehensive review

As Forensic Psychology continues to expand as an independent field, professionals regularly resort to psychological assessment tools to assess people involved within the justice system. The Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) is a 344-item, self-report inventory that aims to provide meaningful information for diagnosis and clinical decision-making, specifically relating to psychopathology, personality, and psychosocial environment. Its applicability in forensic settings has been increasingly recognized on account of its benefits in comparison to other self-report inventories (e.g., MMPI-2, MCMI-III), since it includes scales that are relevant to forensic settings (e.g., violence risk levels, psychopathy, substance abuse), and the existence of profile distortion indicators is useful when dealing with highly defensive and/or malingering populations. The goal of this paper is to conduct a thorough review of the PAI’s utility in forensic settings, by focusing on the relevant forensic constructs assessed by the PAI (e.g., personality disorders, psychosis, substance abuse, aggression, recidivism risk, and response distortion), as well as its application to offender and inmate populations, intimate partner violence contexts, family law cases, and forensic professionals. Overall, the PAI continues to gather international recognition and its relevance and usefulness in forensic settings is generally accepted and acknowledged.371B-6363-036C | Octávio MouraN/