Some PLWH also face HIV related stigma which can perpetuate disparities driven by race, gender, or sexuality leading to intersectional disadvantages. Intersectionality theory suggests that multiple social identities can intersect in a way that reflects multiple social structural disadvantages . Applied to emotional health, for example, PLWH who are also gay or bisexual may be at a higher risk…
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A binary variable indicated whether the period was pre- or post-policy
While the use of ACHS to capture the outcomes of all arrests in the state is a strength of this study, ACHS also faces the quality challenges typical of large administrative datasets, as CA DOJ must rely upon consistent and timely reporting from 58 counties. Though courts and law enforcement agencies are mandated to report…
Canada insisted that dairy be largely outside that bilateral free trade regime
Imports of some products, notably casein and milk protein concentrates are outside the TRQ regime. The U.S. dairy industry has proposed imposing new trade barriers to limit imports of these products, but such proposed legislation is still pending and would require some accommodation with WTO trading partners. Current trade negotiations, initiated with the Doha Round,…
Measurement of these variables will be important for future studies
Participants were asked how often they experience symptoms of GAD including worry, restlessness, irritability and others, with responses scored from 0 to 21. In the WIHS, collection of GAD-7 data only began in October 2013. GAD-7 data were therefore only available for approximately 75% of the women participating in our study. The internal consistency of…
Higher values indicate a more schizoid personality style and high levels of mental distress
To sum, maladaptation is the outcome of a combination of risks, such as psychological trauma, personality features, and lack of support. Trauma impacts personality development and increases the likelihood for inner fragmentation and feelings of emptiness that pose risk factors for ensuing substance problems and isolation. By accommodating the main psychoanalytic concepts under investigation into…
Such materials have helped to create a sense of self-identity and rebrand industrial space in Fremont
A regional industrial land program would bring awareness to the state of industrial uses and best practices in other cities, help to ensure the competitiveness of the Bay Area region relative to other regions, and provide more legitimacy to a city’s argument for preserving industrial land. As an industrial land expert noted, “not every city…
The proposed model’s pathways led from psychological trauma to personality and substance problems
Similarly, poverty, family dysfunction, parental psychopathology and substance abuse, and trauma have been linked to negative developmental outcomes for adolescents . Hence, resilience as a process can be found internally, i.e., residing within the individual, and externally, i.e., residing outside of the individual.The study was concerned with both internal and external factors of resilience to…
The variables selected for missing value replacement were age and alcohol screen result
Since the dependent variable, total GCS, was not selected for imputation/replacement, it was recommended and deemed appropriate to utilize the Replacing Missing Values function in SPSS to establish estimates for a select group of variables with missing data values. Replacing Missing Values method, a different form of imputation, allows the creation of new variables from…
The quality assessment of observational cohort and cross-sectional studies tool was utilized
A traumatic brain injury, as defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , is a disturbance of the brain’s normal function that occurs when an individual sustains a blow, jolt, or bump to the head, or sustains a penetrating head injury . Traumatic brain injuries can lead to a variety of secondary conditions…
There is a bidirectional relationship between homelessness and incarceration
In California, the overall prevalence of youth cigarette smoking continues to decline, even with the emergence of ANDS.We conducted in-depth qualitative interviews with 49 Californian youth between the ages of 15-25, who reported ever vaping nicotine, to consider whether and how the meanings and role of vaping varies by youth’s pathways of initiation of vaping…