INTRODUCTION Physicians are frequently victims of both physical and verbal violence. Specific training is required for staff so that they are able to deal with these situations. OBJETIVE To assess the clinical management and behavior of pediatric medical residents towards a violent mother during a pediatric emergency simulation. MATERIALS AND METHODS To assess the clinical management and be...

BACKGROUND Health care domestic violence initiatives have given little attention to screening men for violent behavior toward their partners. We conducted this study to assess whether men would answer questions about partner violence in a health care setting, to estimate the prevalence of violent behavior in male primary care patients, and to identify characteristics associated with violent beh...

Recent research has identified a relatively new trend among youth (12e24) living in violent urban neighborhoods. These youth use social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to brag about violence, make threats, recruit gang members and to plan criminal activity known as Internet banging. Studies have typically examined youth communication by mining data on social media and surv...

the results of the present research show that coinmitting delinquencies inside and outside the school is increasingly common among junior high school third grade students in khorassan province. a comparison of boys and girl students shows that girls commit considerably less delinquencies than boy students. a study of the reasons of delinquencies inside the school shows that the following factor...

Existing research rarely considers important ethnic subgroup variations in violent behaviors among Latino youth. Thus, their risk for severe violent behaviors is not well understood in light of the immense ethnic and generational diversity of the Latino population in the United States. Grounded in social control theory and cultural analyses of familism, we examine differences in the risk for se...

There is an emerging understanding that there is no correlation or causation between exposure to violent media and aggressive behavior. Hal Hinson (1995) is one of the advocates of this emerging opinion, and in his article " In Defense of Violence " he claims that movie violence cannot cause anything other than enjoyment and catharsis as long as the morality of the viewer is not corrupted (p. 2...

BACKGROUND The biological underpinnings of serious violent behaviors in patients with schizophrenia remain unclear. The aim of this study was to identify the characteristics of brain morphometry in patients with schizophrenia and a history of serious violent acts, who were being treated under relatively new legislation for offenders with mental illness in Japan where their relevant action shoul...

Although stealing among adolescents appears to be fairly common, an assessment of adolescent stealing and its relationship to other behaviors and health problems is incompletely understood. A large sample of high school students (n = 3,999) was examined by self-report survey with 153 questions concerning demographic characteristics, stealing behaviors, other health behaviors including substance...

There are several theoretical reasons to believe that media use might be related to attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or ADHD-related behaviors (i.e., attention problems, hyperactivity, and impulsivity). Although studies into the media-ADHD relationship have accumulated, they have yielded inconsistent results. Therefore, we still do not know whether children's media use and ADHD-r...