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Locked, Loaded, And Ready For School: The Association Of Safety Concerns With Weapon-Carrying Behavior Among Adolescents In The United States, Soumyadeep Mukherjee, Ziyad Ben Taleb, Philip Baiden Nov 2020

Locked, Loaded, And Ready For School: The Association Of Safety Concerns With Weapon-Carrying Behavior Among Adolescents In The United States, Soumyadeep Mukherjee, Ziyad Ben Taleb, Philip Baiden

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There is limited, if any, prior research exploring the potential link between adolescents’ safety concerns and their predisposition to possess weapons has been limited. This study aimed to examine the relationship between high school students’ perceived lack of safety and their weapons carrying behavior in a multiyear nationally representative sample of high school students. Information on self-reported weapons carrying in past month and gun carrying in past year, perceived lack of safety at school or during commute, being bullied and/or threatened, involvement in physical fights, and demographic characteristics were retrieved from Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey data for 1991-2017. Generalized …


Disparities, Desperation, And Divisiveness: Coping Withcovid-19 In India, Soumyadeep Mukherjee Jan 2020

Disparities, Desperation, And Divisiveness: Coping Withcovid-19 In India, Soumyadeep Mukherjee

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India enforced one of the world’s largest lockdowns in the last quarter of March 2020 to minimize the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. This commentary focuses on the mental health implications of the ongoing pandemic as well as the lockdown that lasted for more than two months and is still in place in certain areas. Whereas loneliness, stress, anxiety, and depression have been widespread, vulnerable sections of the population, including daily wage workers, migrant laborers, religious minorities, women and children, and the elderly, have been facing various forms of economic, sociopolitical, and familial stigma, racism, and violence. By and large, …


The Promise Of Inclusion For Female Student Health, Kate D. Romero, Kymberlee O'Brien Jan 2020

The Promise Of Inclusion For Female Student Health, Kate D. Romero, Kymberlee O'Brien

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Despite extensive inclusion and diversity initiatives, females do not feel valued or included and still report higher stress, discrimination and microaggressions than males. Cumulative effects of social devaluation on health were examined for students at a STEM University. A sample of 292 undergraduates were asked about daily and chronic experiences of inclusion using surveys assessing personal perceived stress and subtle and overt social devaluation. Females reported significantly higher microaggressions and perceived stress, associated with lower physical and mental health. Females in high social devaluation (SD) reported lower total well-being (TWB) across several domains. An exploratory factor analyses examined factor loadings …


Education And Cognitive Decline: An Integrative Analysis Of Global Longitudinal Studies Of Cognitive Aging, Sean A. P. Clouston, Dylan M. Smith, Soumyadeep Mukherjee, Yun Zhang, Wei Hou, Bruce G. Link, Marcus Richards Apr 2019

Education And Cognitive Decline: An Integrative Analysis Of Global Longitudinal Studies Of Cognitive Aging, Sean A. P. Clouston, Dylan M. Smith, Soumyadeep Mukherjee, Yun Zhang, Wei Hou, Bruce G. Link, Marcus Richards

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The objective of this study was to examine the association between education and incidence of accelerated cognitive decline.


Handgrip Strength Of World Trade Center (Wtc) Responders: The Role Of Re-Experiencing Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (Ptsd) Symptoms, Soumyadeep Mukherjee, Sean Clouston, Roman Kotov, Evelyn Bromet, Benjamin Luft Mar 2019

Handgrip Strength Of World Trade Center (Wtc) Responders: The Role Of Re-Experiencing Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (Ptsd) Symptoms, Soumyadeep Mukherjee, Sean Clouston, Roman Kotov, Evelyn Bromet, Benjamin Luft

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This study sought to examine whether handgrip strength (HGS), a measure of muscle strength and a biomarker of aging, was associated with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in a cohort of World Trade Center (WTC) responders at midlife. Methods : HGS was assessed utilizing a computer-assisted hand dynamometer administered to a consecutive sample of men and women (n = 2016) who participated in rescue and recovery efforts following theWorld Trade Center (WTC) attacks and subsequently attended monitoring appointments in Long Island, NY. PTSD symptom severity and depressive symptoms were assessed using the PTSD specific-trauma checklist (PCL-S) and the Patient Health Questionnaire …


Risk Factors For Incident Prostate Cancer In A Cohort Of World Trade Center Responders, Sean A. P. Clouston, Peifen Kuan, Romon Kotov, Soumyadeep Mukherjee, Patricia Thompson-Carino, Evelyn J. Bromet, Benjamin J. Luft Jan 2019

Risk Factors For Incident Prostate Cancer In A Cohort Of World Trade Center Responders, Sean A. P. Clouston, Peifen Kuan, Romon Kotov, Soumyadeep Mukherjee, Patricia Thompson-Carino, Evelyn J. Bromet, Benjamin J. Luft

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Despite a relatively young average age and no routine screening, prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in men who worked at the World Trade Center (WTC) following the 9/11/2001 disaster. This study evaluated whether re-experiencing stressful memories of a traumatic event was associated with prostate cancer incidence.


Hair Cortisol And Lifetime Discrimination: Moderation By Subjective Social Status, Kymberlee O'Brien, Jerrold Meyer, Edward Tronick, Celia L. Moore Jan 2017

Hair Cortisol And Lifetime Discrimination: Moderation By Subjective Social Status, Kymberlee O'Brien, Jerrold Meyer, Edward Tronick, Celia L. Moore

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Discrimination has been associated with elevated cortisol as measured in saliva, blood, and urine. This study investigated the association between lifetime discrimination and hair cortisol concentrations, considered a measure of chronic stress. We recruited 180 young adults from diverse backgrounds. Participant responses to lifetime discrimination, home stress, and subjective status measures were recorded. Lifetime discrimination significantly predicted hair cortisol concentrations, supporting past research that discrimination experiences impact neuroendocrine systems. To our knowledge, these are the first findings associating hair cortisol concentrations with discrimination and supports prior evidence positing discrimination as a chronic stressor that serves as a risk factor for …


Measuring Vapor Intrusion: From Source Science Politics To A Transdisciplinary Approach, Peter C. Little, Kelly G. Pennell Oct 2016

Measuring Vapor Intrusion: From Source Science Politics To A Transdisciplinary Approach, Peter C. Little, Kelly G. Pennell

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Investigation of indoor air quality has been on the upswing in recent years. In this article, we focus on how the transport of subsurface vapors into indoor air spaces, a process known as ‘vapor intrusion’, (VI) is defined and addressed. For environmental engineers and physical scientists who specialize in this emerging indoor environmental exposure science, VI is notoriously difficult to characterize, leading the regulatory community to seek improved science-based understandings of VI pathways and exposures. Yet despite the recent growth in VI science and competition between environmental consulting companies, VI studies have largely overlooked the social and political field in …


Evolving Ethical Standards In The Digital Age, Frederic G. Reamer Jan 2015

Evolving Ethical Standards In The Digital Age, Frederic G. Reamer

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Ethical standards in social work have matured significantly since the formal inauguration of the profession in the late 19th century. This article traces the global evolution of ethical standards in social work, focusing especially on current challenges in the digital age. The author discusses changes over time in social workers’ understanding of ethical issues and development of conceptual frameworks and protocols for managing them. Social workers’ increasing use of digital technology poses novel and unprecedented ethical challenges pertaining to privacy, confidentiality, informed consent, professional boundaries, conflicts of interest, documentation, client abandonment, and professionalism, among others. The article outlines emerging ethical …


Clinical Social Work In A Digital Environment: Ethical And Risk-Management Challenges, Frederic G. Reamer Jan 2015

Clinical Social Work In A Digital Environment: Ethical And Risk-Management Challenges, Frederic G. Reamer

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Clinical social workers’ use of digital and other technology to provide distance counseling services is proliferating. Increasing numbers of contemporary practitioners are using video counseling, email chat, social networking websites, text messaging, smartphone apps, avatar-based websites, self-guided web-based interventions, and other technology to provide clinical services to clients, some of whom they may never meet in person. The advent of this technology has produced a wide range of ethical challenges related to social workers’ application of traditional social work ethics concepts: client informed consent; client privacy and confidentiality; boundaries and dual relationships; conflicts of interest; practitioner competence; records and documentation; …


The Evolution Of Social Work Ethics: Bearing Witness, Frederic G. Reamer Jan 2014

The Evolution Of Social Work Ethics: Bearing Witness, Frederic G. Reamer

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The evolution of ethical standards in social work, and conceptual frameworks for examining ethical issues, is among the most compelling developments in the history of the profession. Since the formal inauguration of social work in the late nineteenth century, the profession has moved from relatively simplistic and moralistic perspectives to conceptually rich analyses of ethical issues and ethical guidelines. This article examines the evolution of social work ethics from the profession’s earliest days and speculates about future challenges and directions.


Indian Parents Prefer Vaccinating Their Daughters Against Hpv At Older Ages, Purnima Madhivanan, Vijaya Srinivas, Laura Marlow, Soumyadeep Mukherjee, Doddaiah Narayanappa, Shekar Mysore, Anjali Arun, Karl Krupp Jan 2014

Indian Parents Prefer Vaccinating Their Daughters Against Hpv At Older Ages, Purnima Madhivanan, Vijaya Srinivas, Laura Marlow, Soumyadeep Mukherjee, Doddaiah Narayanappa, Shekar Mysore, Anjali Arun, Karl Krupp

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Increasing uptake of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine should be a priority in developing countries since they suffer 88% of the world’s cervical cancer burden. In many countries studies show that age at vaccination is an important determinate of parental acceptability. This study explores parental preferences on age-to-vaccinate for adolescent school-going girls.


Comparing Adult Males And Females In The United States To Examine The Association Between Body Mass Index And Frequent Mental Distress: An Analysis Of Data From Brfss 2011, Soumyadeep Mukherjee Sep 2013

Comparing Adult Males And Females In The United States To Examine The Association Between Body Mass Index And Frequent Mental Distress: An Analysis Of Data From Brfss 2011, Soumyadeep Mukherjee

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There is conflicting evidence regarding the association of body mass index (BMI) with mental distress. Studies have focused on different dimensions of mental health and used different definitions and many of them have not controlled for confounding factors. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between frequent mental distress (FMD) and BMI among adults in the United States, with special emphasis on gender differences. Methods. Data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) for the year 2011 were used in logistic regression models to predict FMD, defined as having 14 or more days of poor mental …


Distance And Online Social Work Education: Novel Ethical Challenges, Frederic G. Reamer Jan 2013

Distance And Online Social Work Education: Novel Ethical Challenges, Frederic G. Reamer

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Digital technology has transformed social work education. Today’s students can take individual courses and earn an entire degree without ever meeting their faculty members in person. Technological innovations such as videoconferencing, live online chat, asynchronous podcasts, and webinars enable social work educators to reach students whose personal circumstances and geographical locations make it difficult for them to attend school in person. This paper highlights complex ethical issues associated with the proliferation of digital and online social work education. Key ethical issues concern student access; course and degree program quality and integrity; academic honesty and gatekeeping; and privacy and surveillance.


Social Work In A Digital Age: Ethical And Risk Management Challenges, Frederic G. Reamer Jan 2013

Social Work In A Digital Age: Ethical And Risk Management Challenges, Frederic G. Reamer

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Digital, online, and other electronic technology has transformed the nature of social work practice. Contemporary social workers can provide services to clients by using online counseling, telephone counseling, video counseling, cybertherapy (avatar therapy), selfguided Web-based interventions, electronic social networks, e-mail, and text messages. The introduction of diverse digital, online, and other forms of electronic social services has created a wide range of complex ethical and related risk management issues. This article provides an overview of current digital, online, and electronic social work services; identifies compelling ethical issues related to practitioner competence, client privacy and confidentiality, informed consent, conflicts of interest, …


Relationship Between Hair Cortisol And Perceived Chronic Stress In A Diverse Sample, Kymberlee O'Brien, E. Z. Tronick, C. L. Moore Jan 2012

Relationship Between Hair Cortisol And Perceived Chronic Stress In A Diverse Sample, Kymberlee O'Brien, E. Z. Tronick, C. L. Moore

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Hair cortisol (CORT) is a biomarker of chronic stress via long-termalterations in hypothalamus–pituitary–adrenal axis activity. Relationships to perceived stressmeasures, however, have rarely been specifically investigated. A diverse sample of 135 adults participated in a study assessing relationships between chronic stress indicator CORT to perceived stress and health indicators. CORT was not correlated to single perceived domain indices but with a global stress composite. Differences in objective and subjective measures were found for sociodemographics: racial/ethnic identity, sex and socioeconomic status (SES). Race by SES interactions predicted both CORT and perceived stress, but produced a complex and partially unanticipated pattern of results. …


Relational Psychophysiology And Mutual Regulation During Dyadic Therapeutic And Development Relating, Kymberlee O'Brien Jan 2012

Relational Psychophysiology And Mutual Regulation During Dyadic Therapeutic And Development Relating, Kymberlee O'Brien

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Human experiences of empathy and presence are quintessential in therapeutic as well as intimate relationships. The work on relational psychophysiology has informed psychotherapeutic research by illustrating how early life physiological concordance between mother and infant are critical in mutual dyadic regulation. These processes cross several developmental domains, including biological, affective, social, and self-identity. By examining physiological concordance, this research has propelled our understanding of mutual regulation into the more expansive understanding of dyadically expanded states of consciousness. The core of the therapeutic relationship inherently engenders expanded opportunities and reorganization of the client, as well as the therapist. By incorporating the …


Healthy, Wealthy, Wise? Psychosocial Factors Influencing The Socioeconomic Status-Health Gradient, Kymberlee O'Brien Jan 2012

Healthy, Wealthy, Wise? Psychosocial Factors Influencing The Socioeconomic Status-Health Gradient, Kymberlee O'Brien

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The present research investigated psychosocial factors: control beliefs; social relations moderating the SES–health gradient. Participants included 3775 respondents from a national probability sample, Midlife in United States (t1: Age, M = 46.40, SD = 13.00, t2: Age, M = 55.47, SD = 12.43), who provided reports on control beliefs, social relations, and health at two assessment occasions (1994/1995 and 2002/2003). Hierarchical regression demonstrated that control beliefs, social support, and strain uniquely moderated relationships between SES and longitudinal health. The present study highlights the importance of psychosocial factors as protective mechanisms of socioeconomic disadvantages and associated long-term deleterious health outcomes.


Ethical Issues In Open Adoption, Frederic G. Reamer, Deborah H. Siegel Jul 2007

Ethical Issues In Open Adoption, Frederic G. Reamer, Deborah H. Siegel

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Total secrecy and confidentiality no longer typify adoption in the United States. Today, most adoptions involve an exchange of information or some form of contact between the birth family and adoptive family - so-called open adoptions. This article provides a comprehensive overview of ethical issues associated with various forms of open adoption, including issues of privacy, confidentiality, self-determination, paternalism, conflicts of interest, deception, and truthtelling.We present guidelines for social work practice in open adoptions, based on current ethical theory and ethical standards in social work.


Molecular Cloning Of The Rat Ta1/Lat-1/Cd98 Light Chain Gene Promoter1, Deborah E. Britt, Sri K. Diah, James F. Padbury Jan 2001

Molecular Cloning Of The Rat Ta1/Lat-1/Cd98 Light Chain Gene Promoter1, Deborah E. Britt, Sri K. Diah, James F. Padbury

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The rat LAT-1 (L-amino acid transporter-1) gene is a CD98 light chain highly expressed in cancer and development. As an initial study of the molecular basis underlying regulation of its expression, we cloned 2 kb of the LAT-1 5' flanking region. Inverse RACE and primer extension methods were used to define the transcription initiation site at 80 bp upstream from the translational start site. Functional studies carried out in normal hepatic cells using constructs containing progressive 5'deletion from region -1958 to -185 showed 3-5-fold beta-galactosidase activities over control. The presence of an activator site(s) between -52 and -185 was indicated …