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This study aims to investigate the association between self-reported accessibility and engagement with health services and places in the community, and quality of life (QOL) for people with spinal cord damage (SCD).

Cross-sectional survey.

Community.

Two-hundred and sixty-six people with a SCD residing in Australia (

 = 62.34,

 = 15.95).

The International Spinal Cord Injury Quality of Life Basic Data Set.

Univariate regressions demonstrated that accessing a higher number of places in the community was significantly associated with favorable self-reported psychological health (

 = .160, P < .01), physical health (

 = .144, P < .01), overall well-being (

 = .206, P < .01), and QOL (

 = .187, P < .01). In contrast, reporting a higher number of inaccessible places was significantly associated with unfavorable self-reported psychological health (

 = -.171, P < .01), physical health (

 = -.270, P < .001), overall well-being (

 = -.238, P < .001), and QOL (

 = -.244, P < .001). Being older and living with injury or onset of damage longer were significantly associated with favorable scores across all outcomes (P < .01) except physical health.

Community engagement can have a considerable impact on the self-reported health and QOL of people with SCD. this website Interventions aimed at increasing community engagement, particularly for people who have recently experienced SCD are warranted.

Community engagement can have a considerable impact on the self-reported health and QOL of people with SCD. Interventions aimed at increasing community engagement, particularly for people who have recently experienced SCD are warranted.Background Iron supplementation in pregnancy is recommended by the WHO to prevent a major public health problem, namely, maternal iron deficiency and its consequences. There are gaps in the existing evidence regarding maternal and neonatal benefits and harms of universal iron supplementation. Objective To evaluate the association between maternal iron status during pregnancy and infant size at birth (birth weight and length). Method This present prospective cohort study was nested in a food and micronutrient supplementation trial conducted in Matlab (MINIMat study), rural Bangladesh. We randomly selected 573 women recruited into the MINIMat study from January - December 2002 who delivered singletons with available birth anthropometric information. The plasma ferritin of each mother was measured at gestational week 14 (GW14; before the start of micronutrient supplementation) and at week 30 (GW30). Results Multivariable linear regression revealed no association between plasma ferritin at GW14 and birth weight. However, newborns of women in the highest tertile of plasma ferritin at GW30 (median = 29 µg/L) had on average a 93-gm lower birth weight (95% CI -172, - 14; p = 0.021) than the newborns of womehemoglobin (Hb) synthesisn in the lowest tertile (median = 8 µg/L). Logistic regression showed that odds of low birth weight were approximately two times higher [odds ratio (OR) = 2.27; 95% CI 1.40, 3.67] among those with mothers in the highest ferritin tertile than in the lowest tertile at GW30. No association was found between maternal plasma ferritin and birth length. Conclusion We observed an inverse association between high plasma ferritin in the last trimester (GW30) and birth weight but not birth length. The results suggested that elevated plasma ferritin in pregnancy could have an untoward effect on birth weight.

The relationship between macro-level mental health system indicators and population suicide rates is an area of contention in the literature, necessitating an analysis of current cross-national data to document any new trend in the relationship.

This study investigated whether mental health system indicators are associated with national suicide rates.

Using an ecological study design and multivariate non-parametric robust regression models, data on suicide rates and mental health system indicators of 191 countries retrieved from WHOs 2017 Mental Health Atlas were compared.

Findings revealed that the average suicide mortality rate was significantly higher in high- income countries, relative to low-income countries. High-income countries are significantly more likely to have high number of mental health professionals, mental health policies and legislation, independent mental health authority and suicide prevention programs. These mental health system indicators demonstrated significant and positive association with suicide, suggesting that countries scoring high on these factors have higher odds of being categorized as high suicide risk countries.

The findings have several implications for policy and practice, including the need to make existing mental health systems very responsive to suicide prevention.

The findings have several implications for policy and practice, including the need to make existing mental health systems very responsive to suicide prevention.The Association for Multidisciplinary Education and Research in Substance Use and Addiction (AMERSA) acknowledges that racism profoundly affects persons who use alcohol and other drugs. Racism's deadly effects compounded with other social determinants of health result in a cascade of negative impacts. The AMERSA Board of Directors (BOD) proposes an initial set of strategies to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion using a framework that speaks to four key AMERSA experiences engagement, education, mentorship, and leadership. Through these strategies, AMERSA commits to promoting equity and inclusion to dismantle the individual, institutional, and structural racism that has permeated the United States for centuries.

To describe the clinical features and disease course of COVID-19 in veterans with spinal cord injury (SCI).

Case series of consecutive veterans with SCI treated at a single center.

SCI Unit at an urban Veterans Administration hospital at the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US.

Seven SCI veterans with confirmed COVID-19 infection by PCR; all veterans were male, mean age was 60.6. Five had cervical level of injury, and five had complete injury (AIS A). Six veterans had a BMI > 22; three had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; three had chronic kidney disease.

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Presence of co-morbidities, diagnostic values, and clinical findings.

Each case presented differently; the most common presenting sign was fever. In the three individuals with critical and fatal infection, pre-existing comorbidities were more common and inflammatory markers were markedly elevated.

Level and completeness of SCI did not appear to correlate with COVID-19 severity, as mild and asymptomatic illness was noteh as fever and cough, by way of compromised thermoregulation and thoracoabdominal musculature, such signs were common in our series. To facilitate early detection, prompt treatment, and minimized viral spread, the implementation of preventive strategies by SCI units is recommended.From 1999 through 2017, age-adjusted suicide rates in the United States rose by 33% (from 10.5 to 14.0 per 100 000 population). Social capital, a key social determinant of health, could protect against suicide, but empirical evidence on this association is limited. Using multilevel data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, we explored state- and county-level social capital as predictors of age-adjusted suicide rates pooled from 2010 through 2017 across 2112 US counties. In addition, we tested for causal mediation of these associations by state-level prevalence of depression. A 1-standard deviation increase in state-level social capital predicted lower county-level suicide mortality rates almost 2 decades later (0.87 fewer suicides per 100 000 population; P = .04). This association was present among non-Hispanic Black people and among men but not among non-Hispanic White people and women. We also found evidence of partial mediation by prevalence of depression. Our findings suggest that elevating state- and county-level social capital, such as through policy and local initiatives, may help to reverse the trend of rising suicide rates in the United States.

Pre- and post- trial.

To determine the changes of health belief levels after a pressure ulcer (PrU) prevention educational program based on the Health Belief Model (HBM).

Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University Medical Centre, Malaysia.

This study was conducted between May 2016 and May 2018. We created a multidisciplinary structured PrU prevention education program based on the HBM, consisting of didactic lectures, open discussions and a practical session. The content of the program was based on several PrU prevention guidelines. The education program focused on a group of 6-10 participants, and was conducted by a multidisciplinary team;

doctor, physiotherapist, occupational therapist and a nurse. The skin care belief scales (SCBS) questionnaire was administered pre, post and 8-week post intervention, which measured the 9 domains of HBM. The data from the study was analyzed using repeated measures ANOVA to assess the effectiveness of the program.

Thirty spinal cord injured participants who fulfilled the inclusion and exclusion criteria completed this study. The results of the education program show statistically significant effects on Susceptibility; F (2,58) = 12.53,

< 0.05, Barriers to Skin Check Belief; F(2,58) = 5.74,

> 0.05, Benefits to Wheelchair Pressure Relief Belief; F(1.65,47.8) = 3.97,

< 0.05, Barriers to Turning and Positioning Belief; F(2,58) = 3.92,

 < 0.05 and Self-Efficacy; F(1.7,49.11) = 4.7,

< 0.05.

A structured HBM based education program is shown to improve health beliefs level in five SCBS domains. This education program is recommended for PrU prevention within the spinal cord injured population.

A multidisciplinary structured HBM based education program may improve the current method of PrU prevention education.

A multidisciplinary structured HBM based education program may improve the current method of PrU prevention education.A bias correction scheme based on a Kalman filter (KF) method has been developed and implemented for the AIRPACT air quality forecast system which operates daily for the Pacific Northwest. The KF method was used to correct hourly rolling 24-h average PM2.5 concentrations forecast at each monitoring site within the AIRPACT domain and the corrected forecasts were evaluated using observed daily PM2.5 24-h average concentrations from 2017 to 2018. The evaluation showed that the KF method reduced mean daily bias from approximately -50% to ±6% on a monthly averaged basis, and the corrected results also exhibited much smaller mean absolute errors typically less than 20%. These improvements were also apparent for the top 10 worst PM2.5 days during the 2017-2018 test period, including months with intensive wildfire events. Significant differences in AIRPACT performance among urban, suburban, and rural monitoring sites were greatly reduced in the KF bias correction forecasts. The daily 24-h average bias corrections for each monitoring site were interpolated to model grid points using three different interpolation schemes cubic spline, Gaussian Kriging, and linear Kriging.