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The aggregate-level age-crime distributions in Western countries are predominantly right-skewed and adolescent-spiked. Based on Western data, Hirschi and Gottfredson (1983) asserted that this age-crime pattern is universally invariant across time and places. This study's overall goal is to rigorously examine Hirschi an…

The aim of this review was to explore qualitative accounts of law enforcement (LE) officers' personal experiences of mental health, in terms of linguistic descriptions, relationships between occupational experiences and mental health, and challenges to maintaining mental well-being. Using preferred reporting items for…

A growing number of studies have tested the relationship between personal resources (e.g. emotional intelligence) and indicators of occupational well-being, including work engagement. However, few have examined health-related factors moderating or mediating the pathway from emotional intelligence to work engagement. A…

INTRODUCTION: Most liver resections performed in the United States are open. With the ever-increasing role of robotic surgery, our study's role is to assess national outcomes based on the surgical approach. METHODS: We performed a retrospective analysis of the 2015 National Readmission Database (NRD). We selected pati…

This retrospective study's objective was to evaluate osteoarticular infection in infants less than 12 months of age, with a particular focus on biological features and bacteriological etiology.We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of every infant younger than 12 months old admitted in our institution for…

Previous research has found that increased physical activity may provide a protective effect on depression status; however, these studies do not account for cognitive function. This study's aim was to determine whether cognitive function mediates the association between physical activity depression status in older adul…

War-related traumas impact refugees' mental health. Recent literature suggests that structural and sociocultural factors related to the resettlement also become critical in shaping refugees' mental health. So far, there is limited empirical evidence to support this claim among resettled refugees. Resettlement contextua…

UNLABELLED: The study's aim was to identify associations between socio-demographic, psychosocial and pain-related factors and health care utilization due to low back pain.In this cross-sectional Survey 372 hotel employees completed standardized questionnaires to examine pain characteristics, psychosocial (working) cond…

Illicit drug users, entering a detention center and two psychiatric hospitals in Northern Taiwan, were interviewed for lifetime drug-use-related psychiatric disorders and suicide attempts. Among 197 participants, 17.3%, 16.8%, and 14.2% had a drug-induced psychotic disorder (DIP), a drug-induced mood disorder (DIM), an…

This study's aim was to investigate coping strategies and their relationship to symptoms in people at ultra high risk (UHR) for psychosis compared with recent-onset schizophrenia (SPR) and healthy controls. Thirty-three UHR participants, 22 SPR patients, and 33 healthy controls completed the Ways of Coping Questionnair…

BACKGROUND: Carcinoid tumours are neuroendocrine neoplasms mainly located in the gastrointestinal tract and bronchopulmonary system. Our study's aim was to characterise the familial nature of gastrointestinal carcinoid tumours using the Swedish Family-Cancer Database, which includes >11.5 million individuals. METHODS:…

Failure to limit dietary sodium leads to thirst, large fluid weight gain, and poor outcomes in patients receiving hemodialysis. Perceived benefits and barriers may influence adherence; however, tools measuring these relationships are not available. This study's purpose, based on the health belief model, was to evaluate…

This study's goals were to characterize the relationship between early and longer term cocaine abstinence and assess whether increasing early abstinence increases longer term abstinence. Results from 190 cocaine-dependent outpatients were analyzed. Participants were divided into 2 conditions: (a) those treated with com…

A meta-analysis of 128 studies examined the effects of extrinsic rewards on intrinsic motivation. As predicted, engagement-contingent, completion-contingent, and performance-contingent rewards significantly undermined free-choice intrinsic motivation (d = -0.40, -0.36, and -0.28, respectively), as did all rewards, all…

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to determine if community-wide activities in the Pomona Youth and Family Master Plan (PYFMP) might have influenced youth ATOD use changes in Pomona and in comparison to the US national jurisdiction. METHODS: An integrated framework encompassing social cognitive t…

Late-life depression (LLD) is a prevalent mental health issue that significantly impacts the quality of life in the elderly population. In recent years, metabolomics has emerged as a novel research tool, offering fresh insights into the molecular mechanisms underlying LLD. This systematic review synthesizes metabolomic…

BACKGROUND: Interventions targeting the needs of caregivers of cardiac patients are few, and in most cases, no effect is found on caregivers' well-being. A closer look at the existing interventions will provide a solid foundation for future efforts to develop effective interventions targeted at caregivers of cardiac pa…

According to confluence model theorizing, pornography use contributes to sexual violence, but only among men who are predisposed to sexual aggression. Support for this assertion is limited to cross-sectional research, which cannot speak to the temporal ordering of assumed causes and consequences. To address this issue,…

The memory profile of individuals with Down syndrome (DS) has mainly been examined through traditional laboratory tasks, often revealing substantial deficits in episodic and declarative memory. Little is known about the relation between memory abilities as measured in the laboratory versus naturalistic settings in this…

INTRODUCTION: Reciprocal translation, the understanding of one study's findings in terms of another's, is the foundation of most qualitative metasynthetic methods. In light of the proliferation of metasynthesis methods, the current review sought to create a taxonomy of operations of reciprocal translation using recentl…