Children and adolescents (youth) may be exposed to various forms of violence and trauma in a number of ways. Research and clinical studies have revealed that youth may be significantly impacted by isolated, single or repetitive exposures to violence and trauma. Further, these exposures may ultimately impact the overall psycho-social-emotional, and mental health, as well as, the mental health ca...

Over the past decade, online social media has had a tremendous impact on the way people engage in social activism. For instance, about 26M Facebook users expressed their support in upholding the cause of marriage equality by overlaying their profile pictures with rainbow-colored filters. Similarly, hundreds of thousands of users changed their profile pictures to a black dot condemning incidents...

BACKGROUND Chronic low back pain is, in many countries, the main cause of long term disability in middle age. Patients with chronic low back pain are often referred for multidisciplinary treatment. Previous published systematic reviews on this topic included no randomised controlled trials and pooled together controlled and non-controlled studies. OBJECTIVES To assess the effect of multidisci...

OBJECTIVE This study investigated the impact of a collaborative clinical education model on students' perception of the psycho-social learning environment. DESIGN A pre-test and post-test quasi experimental design. SETTING A tertiary referral centre. SUBJECTS Second and third year undergraduate nursing students were asked to rate their perceptions of the psycho-social learning environment...

Eligibility for social security benefits in many advanced economies is dependent on unemployed and underemployed people carrying out an expanding range of job search, training and work preparation activities, as well as mandatory unpaid labour (workfare). Increasingly, these activities include interventions intended to modify attitudes, beliefs and personality, notably through the imposition of...

Probabilistic models can learn users’ preferences from the history of their item adoptions on a social media site, and in turn, recommend new items to users based on learned preferences. However, current models ignore psychological factors that play an important role in shaping online social behavior. One such factor is attention, the mechanism that integrates perceptual and cognitive features ...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To provide evidence for the development of a physical domain attached to the well-known bio-psycho-social model of dementia. The objectives were to develop a set of international case studies that followed a trajectory approach, from prevention to end-of-life care. BACKGROUND In the UK the bio-psycho-social model has informed the shape of the National Institute for Health ...

The pandemic of HIV is far from over, as widely believed. Management the infection achieved through provision Ante-Retroviral Therapy, resulting in longevity infected. This therapy implies an increased number people living with infection. However, socio-psycho-cultural factors and resultant behavior that contribute to spread virus still prevail, causing new segments infected people. Transdiscip...