BACKGROUND To investigate the prevalence of self-harm in young adolescents and factors associated with onset and continuity over a one year period. METHOD Prospective longitudinal study. Participants were young adolescents (n = 3964) aged 12-16 years attending 8 secondary schools in the Midlands and South West of England. RESULTS Over a one year period 27% of young adolescents reported thou...

Objective: Our objective was to make a mini review of the evidence and some recommendations about holistic compassionate approach for children adolescents with self-harm. Methods: We performed PubMed research on reviews, guidelines trials published in English between 2006 2021. The keywords used were: self-harm, child adolescent. Results: Self-harm is common problem young people serious consequ...

BACKGROUND Torture survivors face multiple problems, including psychological difficulties, whether they are refugees or remain in the country where they were tortured. Provision of rehabilitation varies not only with the needs of survivors and resources available, but also with service models, service provider preferences and the local and country context. Despite increasing efforts in research...

Communities are adversely affected by heterogeneous social harm events, e.g. crime, traffic crashes, medical emergencies, drug use. Police, fire, health and social service departments are tasked with mitigating social harm through various types of interventions. While social harm indices have been proposed for allocating resources to spatially fixed hotspots, the risk of social harm events is d...

AIMS Ketamine remains an important medicine in both specialist anaesthesia and aspects of pain management. At the same time, its use as a recreational drug has spread in many parts of the world during the past few years. There are now increasing concerns about the harmful physical and psychological consequences of repeated misuse of this drug. The aim of this review was to survey and integrate ...

Context A systematic review published 6 years ago concluded that receiving falsepositive mammography results had harmful and long-term psychosocial consequences. At the time, the harms of screening tests were well known only to researchers, some groups in charge of various guidelines and, perhaps, a few journalists. The world has fundamentally changed. Today we have social movements, like ‘Choo...

conclusions this study showed that hiv-infected patients with jobs enjoy a great deal of acceptance from the people around them and a higher quality of life in general. it also led to suggestions for further study with the purpose of finding more effective solutions for hiv prevention and better strategies for dealing with psychological disorders. such research could also help in providing an e...

Introduction: Relationships bring quality of life, satisfaction, and even contribute to personal growth mental health. However, the end a relationship can affect physical, emotional, social aspects an individual. Objective: To identify analyze involved in romantic relationships. Materials Methods: This study is prospective quantitative cross-sectional research with discourse analysis. Results: ...

A debate in drug policy rankles between proponents of use reduction and harm reduction. We present a stylized two-state, one-control dynamic optimization model of this choice based on a social cost related definition of harm reduction, and parameterize it both for cocaine in the U.S. and for Australia's population of injection drug users. Static analysis of a binary choice between pure harm red...