Investigating the Relationship between Sociodemographic Factors and Bird Identification by Landowners Across a Rural-to-Urban Gradient

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary S. Fleck ◽  
Maude Dinan ◽  
Lauren J. Simmons ◽  
Todd D. Steury ◽  
Christopher A. Lepczyk
Keyword(s):  
Sociodemographic Factors ◽  
Urban Gradient ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals The impact of diet during adolescence on the neonatal health of offspring: evidence on the importance of preconception diet. The HUNT study

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Wendy Van Lippevelde ◽  
Frøydis N. Vik ◽  
Andrew K. Wills ◽  
Sofia T. Strömmer ◽  
Mary E. Barker ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dietary Assessment ◽  
Sociodemographic Factors ◽  
Neonatal Outcomes ◽  
Health Study ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Birth Registry ◽  
Meal Patterns ◽  
Dietary Choices ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Emerging evidence suggests that parents’ nutritional status before and at the time of conception influences the lifelong physical and mental health of their child. Yet little is known about the relationship between diet in adolescence and the health of the next generation at birth. This study examined data from Norwegian cohorts to assess the relationship between dietary patterns in adolescence and neonatal outcomes. Data from adolescents who participated in the Nord-Trøndelag Health Study (Young-HUNT) were merged with birth data for their offspring through the Medical Birth Registry of Norway. Young-HUNT1 collected data from 8980 adolescents between 1995 and 1997. Linear regression was used to assess associations between adolescents’ diet and later neonatal outcomes of their offspring adjusting for sociodemographic factors. Analyses were replicated with data from the Young-HUNT3 cohort (dietary data collected from 2006 to 2008) and combined with Young-HUNT1 for pooled analyses. In Young-HUNT1, there was evidence of associations between dietary choices, meal patterns, and neonatal outcomes, these were similar in the pooled analyses but were attenuated to the point of nonsignificance in the smaller Young-HUNT3 cohort. Overall, energy-dense food products were associated with a small detrimental impact on some neonatal outcomes, whereas healthier food choices appeared protective. Our study suggests that there are causal links between consumption of healthy and unhealthy food and meal patterns in adolescence with neonatal outcomes for offspring some years later. The effects seen are small and will require even larger studies with more state-of-the-art dietary assessment to estimate these robustly.

scholarly journals THE NEED FOR INFORMATION AND THE ATTITUDE TOWARDS DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES AS FACTORS OF CRITICAL AND UNCRITICAL DISSEMINATION OF PANDEMIC NEWS

2021 ◽  
pp. 170-195
Author(s):  
Elena I. Rasskazova ◽  
Galina V. Soldatova ◽  
Yulia Y. Neyaskina ◽  
Olga S. Shiriaeva
Keyword(s):  
Subjective Experience ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Sociodemographic Factors ◽  
Subjective Experiences ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Digital World ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

Relevance. The modern society creates the image of a successful person as actively interacting with different information flows, including an impressive stream of news content. This paper assumes that there is a personal need for tracking and spreading news that develops in the interaction between person and digital world. The individual level of this need could explain the interaction with information (its critical and uncritical dissemination) and the subjective experience of its redundancy and inaccuracy, including those experiences and actions in a pandemic situation. The aim of the study was to reveal the relationship of the subjective need for news with personal values, beliefs about technologies (“technophilia”) and the dissemination of news about the pandemic. Method. 270 people (aged 18 to 61) filled out The short (Schwartz) Portrait Values Questionnaire (PVQ), Beliefs about New Technologies Questionnaire, Monitoring of Information about Coronavirus Scale as well as items on the subjective need for receiving and disseminating news, readiness for critical and non-critical dissemination of news about pandemics, subjective experiences of redundancy and distrust of pandemic-related information. Results. According to the results, the Need for News Scale allows assessing the subjective importance of receiving news and discussing them with other people and is characterized by sufficient consistency and factor validity. The need for regular news is more pronounced among men, older people, people with higher education, married people, people who have children, while the need to discuss news is not related to sociodemographic factors. For people, who are more prone to technophilia, it is more important to regularly receive and discuss news information with others, which, in turn, mediates the relationship between technophilia and monitoring news about coronavirus. The need for news dissemination mediates the relationship between technophilia and readiness for critical and non-critical dissemination of information about the pandemic.

scholarly journals The relationship between sociodemographic factors and reporting having terminated a pregnancy among Ghanaian women: a population-based study

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 333-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Dankwah ◽  
Megan Steeves ◽  
Dana Ramsay ◽  
Cindy Feng ◽  
Marwa Farag
Keyword(s):  
Sociodemographic Factors ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Population Based Study ◽  
Ghanaian Women ◽  
The Relationship

Socioeconomic Disparities in Cancer Incidence and Mortality

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Candyce Kroenke ◽  
Ichiro Kawachi
Keyword(s):  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Cancer Incidence ◽  
Sociodemographic Factors ◽  
Cancer Type ◽  
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged ◽  
The Past ◽  
Socioeconomic Gradient ◽  
Incidence And Mortality ◽  
Risk Of Cancer ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and cancer is complex, dynamic, and evolving. Associations depend on SES measures, cancer type, sociodemographic factors including race/ethnicity, and historical trends. However, socioeconomic disadvantage is often associated with a higher risk of cancer, particularly cancers diagnosed at a late stage, as well as worse prognosis once diagnosed. Research on secular trends over the past 70 years has shown reversals of the socioeconomic gradient for lung and colorectal cancer consistent with differential trends by SES in patterns of smoking, diet, and obesity. Rates of these cancers are now currently higher in socioeconomically disadvantaged groups. SES is considered to be a “fundamental” determinant of health outcomes, and this appears true throughout the cancer spectrum—from cancer incidence to detection, treatment, and survival. Investigations over the past decade have increasingly considered the simultaneous impact of individual SES and area-level SES (as a contextual influence) on health outcomes.

scholarly journals Breastfeeding exposure is associated with better knowledge of and attitudes toward BF in Kuwaiti women

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 100-109
Author(s):  
Dalal Usamah Alkazemi ◽  
Roberts Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Positive Association ◽  
Sociodemographic Factors ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Significant Positive Association ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Kuwait University ◽  
Knowledge And Attitudes ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Breast Fed

ObjectivesBreastfeeding (BF) has many benefits for both infants and mothers. However, despite evidence in support of BF, its prevalence has remained low in Kuwait. The purpose of this study was to (1) assess and describe BF attitudes and knowledge among women at a college campus; (2) evaluate BF exposures and sociodemographic factors associated with attitudes toward BF; (3) determine the association between BF knowledge and attitudes.Materials and methodsThis survey was a cross-sectional descriptive study conducted from February to April 2016. A convenience sample of 330 women (students, faculty and staff) from the College of Life Sciences (CLS) at Kuwait University participated in the survey.ResultsMost of the participants respected women who breast fed (81.8%). Some participants believed that BF a baby is painful (43.3%), makes the breasts sag (35.8%), and restricts the mothers’ freedom (51.5%). Additionally, 47.6% of the participants reported that they would feel embarrassed if they saw a woman BF her baby. Acceptability of BF in public was low and most participants preferred BF only around friends and family (52.4%). A statistically significant positive association was observed between BF knowledge and attitudes (R2=6.5%, p<0.001); however, the relationship was not independent and was also associated with nationality and having been breast fed as a baby (R2=10.3%, p=0.021).ConclusionBF knowledge is important to encourage positive BF attitudes, and both are enforced with family values and practice across generations.

scholarly journals Drought, Wellbeing and Adaptive Capacity: Why Do Some People Stay Well?

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (19) ◽  
pp. 7214
Author(s):  
Emma K. Austin ◽  
Tonelle Handley ◽  
Anthony S. Kiem ◽  
Jane L. Rich ◽  
David Perkins ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Adaptive Capacity ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
New South ◽  
Sociodemographic Factors ◽  
Strongly Correlated ◽  
Drought Condition ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Related Stress ◽  
The Relationship

Drought is a threat to public health. Individual and community adaptive capacity is crucial when responding to the impacts of drought. Gaps remain in the understandings of the relationship between wellbeing and adaptive capacity, and whether increased wellbeing can lead to improved adaptive capacity (or vice versa). This paper explores the relationship between drought, wellbeing and adaptive capacity to provide insights that will inform actions to enhance adaptive capacity, and hence increase opportunities for effective drought adaptation. The theory of salutogenesis and the associated sense of coherence (SOC) are used to measure adaptive capacity and to explain why some individuals remain well and adapt to adversity while others do not. An online survey of rural residents (n = 163) in drought-affected New South Wales (NSW), Australia, was conducted from November 2018 to January 2019. Linear regression was used to model the relationships between SOC, sociodemographic factors, drought and wellbeing. Findings demonstrate that SOC is strongly correlated with wellbeing. Drought condition did not influence adaptive capacity, although adaptive capacity and drought-related stress were only weakly correlated. Increased wellbeing was found to be associated with stronger adaptive capacity and therefore, an individuals’ capacity to cope with adversity, such as drought.

scholarly journals Physical Activity, Obesity, and Hypertension among Adults in a Rapidly Urbanised City

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Qianqian Dun ◽  
Wanglin Xu ◽  
Maozhen Fu ◽  
Nengjian Wu ◽  
Justin B. Moore ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Sociodemographic Factors ◽  
Physical Activities ◽  
Activity Levels ◽  
Healthy Weight ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Physical Activity Levels ◽  
Prevalence Of Obesity ◽  
The Relationship

Background. Few studies have explored the relationship between the level of physical activity and the occurrence or prevalence of obesity and hypertension among people residing in urbanised areas. Method. A cross-sectional study involving a sample of 1,001 adults was conducted. Descriptive statistics were used to describe sociodemographic variables, physical activity levels, body mass index (BMI), and prevalence of hypertension. Logistic regression models were adopted to investigate the relationship between these factors. Results. A total of 939 respondents who provided valid responses were included. Among them, 56.5% of the participants reported engaging in high levels of physical activity. However, 40.4% of the respondents were classified as overweight or obese, and 31.9% had diagnosed hypertension. After adjusting for sociodemographic factors, logistic regression analysis revealed that physical activity levels were negatively correlated with the prevalence of BMI (OR = 0.564, 95% CI: 0.352–0.905; OR = 0.583, 95% CI: 0.375–0.907) and hypertension (OR = 0.556, 95% CI: 0.348–0.888). Conclusions. Our study confirms recent evidence regarding the amount of physical activity that is associated with lower prevalence of obesity and hypertension in Pingshan District. Furthermore, different physical activities of various intensity levels had different effects on hypertension. Residents should be encouraged to engage in physical activities and maintain a healthy weight to improve their quality of life.

scholarly journals Do Childhood Conduct Problems Predict Negative Outcomes in Adolescence? A Longitudinal Analysis

2022 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-62
Author(s):  
Hepsi Swarna ◽  
Philip S.J. Leonard ◽  
Weiqiu Yu
Keyword(s):  
Diagnostic Criteria ◽  
Conduct Problems ◽  
Sociodemographic Factors ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Family Characteristics ◽  
Negative Outcomes ◽  
Childhood Conduct Problems ◽  
Childhood Conduct ◽  
Violent Offenses ◽  
The Relationship

The primary purpose of this study was to conduct a prospective ­­­examination of the relationship between childhood conduct problems and five outcomes in adolescence– namely, Physically violent offenses; Non-violent offenses; Deviant lifestyle; Consumption of tobacco, cannabis, or alcohol; and Meeting the symptom count diagnostic criteria for Conduct Disorder (CD) – while controlling for a series of sociodemographic factors, family characteristics and adolescent experiences.  Logistic regression analyses were used to determine if childhood conduct problems in the Canadian National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY) Cycle 1 contributed to negative outcomes in adolescence in NLSCY Cycle 4. This was a prospective, population-based study of 3,725 adolescents (12-15 years old) in the NLSCY Cycle 4 (2000-2001) who were 6-9 years old in NLSCY Cycle 1 (1994-95). Childhood conduct problems were found to be associated with Non-violent offenses and Consumption of tobacco, cannabis, or alcohol in adolescence, but they were not found to be associated with Physically violent offenses or Deviant lifestyle in adolescence. Furthermore, children with conduct problems before the age of 10 were more likely to meet the symptom count diagnostic criteria for CD in adolescence.  

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