Child maltreatment is a significant health and social issue given its prevalence across the general population and the significant short- and long-term outcomes associated with maltreatment in childhood. There is a need for a comprehensive, collaborative and multisectoral approach for identification, prevention and intervention of this complex issue. Within this multisectoral collaboration, it ...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this pilot study was to evaluate a five-session dating violence prevention curriculum in terms of its effect on attitudes justifying the use of dating violence. METHODS The curriculum was implemented in all health classes in a Long Island, New York, school. A total of 193 students participated (boys, n = 106; girls, n = 87). A quasi-experimental design was used to ev...

BACKGROUND Evidence for the association between religiosity and HIV infections is limited. Sujda, the hyper-pigmented spot on the forehead due to repeated prostration during prayers and fasting to worship, involving abstaining from food, drink and sex during daytime in Ramadhan and other specified days, are measures of religiosity among Muslims OBJECTIVES To assess the association between rel...

Although the incidence of tuberculosis (TB) has increased in healthcare workers (HCWs) [1–3], several studies have shown that HCWs are not compliant with screening and/or preventive measures [4–7]. For example, a Portuguese study found that the estimated TB incidence was threeto seven-fold higher in HCWs than in the general population [8]. Latent TB infection (LTBI) diagnosis and treatment cons...

OBJECTIVE To describe the aims, implementation, and desired outcomes of facilitator supervision for both interventions (treatment and control) in Project Eban and to present the Eban Theoretical Framework for Supervision that guided the facilitators' supervision. The qualifications and training of supervisors and facilitators are also described. DESIGN This article provides a detailed descrip...

BACKGROUND The diagnosis and treatment of cancer is associated with significant distress and psychosocial morbidity. Although psychosocial interventions have been developed in an attempt to improve psychosocial outcomes in cancer patients and survivors, there is continued debate about whether there is adequate high-level evidence to establish the effectiveness of these interventions. The eviden...

BACKGROUND Social norms imparted by preceptors and the requirements necessary to pass American Board of Pediatrics' examinations are potentially important contributors to physician behavior. OBJECTIVE To explore the relationships between perceived professional norms regarding injury prevention and the injury prevention topics discussed, and counseling strategies employed, by pediatric residen...

To the Editor: The study by Dr Jemmott and colleagues 1 contributes important data to the effort to develop effective interventions that prevent sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease among young people. Although the authors used an ambitious study design and went to substantial lengths to document and validate the self-reported behaviors that were t...

Have you ever thrown an apple core or an orange peel out of the car window? Is this littering? What happens if it lands on the pavement? Is it the same as if it lands in a patch of soil on the side of the road? Apple cores, orange peels, leaves, and other plant materials are made up of complex carbon compounds, which get broken down over time into simpler forms of carbon in a process called dec...

The times at which post-partum ovulation occurred relative to the times of parturition, were similar for CD-1 mice exposed either to 18L:6D of 10L:14D and comparable to the times reported previously for mice of the same strain kept under 14L:10D. When parturition took place close to 'lights off', ovulation tended to occur 13--14 h after littering (i.e. during the last part of the same dark peri...