Psychological risks to mother–infant bonding during the COVID-19 pandemic

A content analysis was conducted of all UK local daily newspaper articles appearing in the first half of 1981, concerned with nuclear power or renewable alternatives. Evaluative coverage of these technologies was compared on dimensions found to characterise energy issues (economic, environmental, technological, future/political, physical and psychological risks). In addition, comparisons were drawn between coverage in areas ‘threatened’ with the potential siting of a new nuclear power station and that in ‘unaffected’ areas. The development stage of the two technologies and the degree of ‘factual’ as opposed to ‘polemical’ coverage they attracted were also recorded. In evaluative terms, nuclear power was evaluated overwhelmingly negatively, and alternatives positively. Moreover, this pattern showed a degree of consistency irrespective of the dimension of evaluation. The ‘threatened’ subsample was most negatively disposed towards nuclear power. Polemical coverage was greater for nuclear power than for alternatives and greatest in the ‘threatened’ sample. This category also contained articles more likely to attract attention because of their greater headline size and length. Whereas most coverage of nuclear power concentrates on preoperational or operational stages, coverage of alternatives is more concerned with its formative and planning stages. These findings were related to people's attitudes concerning nuclear power, and the growth in antinuclear feeling in particular.

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Introduction

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199352722.013.43 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Phillip Kleespies

Keyword(s):

At Risk ◽

Children And Adolescents ◽

Crisis Intervention ◽

Suicide Risk ◽

The Elderly ◽

Integrative Approach ◽

Emergency Intervention ◽

Interpersonal Victimization ◽

Behavioral Emergencies ◽

Psychological Risks

This book is about behavioral emergencies and the association between interpersonal victimization and subsequent suicidality and/or risk for violence toward others. Section I focuses on the differences between behavioral crises and behavioral emergencies and presents an integrative approach to crisis intervention and emergency intervention. Section II discusses the evaluation of suicide risk, risk of violence, and risk of interpersonal victimization in children and adolescents. Sections III and IV explore behavioral emergencies with adults and the elderly, while Section V deals with certain conditions or behaviors that may either need to be differentiated from a behavioral emergency, or understood as relevant to possibly heightening risk. Section VI describes treatments for patients with recurrent or ongoing risks, and Section VII is devoted to legal, ethical, and psychological risks faced by clinicians who work with patients who might be at risk to themselves or others.

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Perceived risks from drone food delivery services before and after COVID-19

International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management ◽

10.1108/ijchm-08-2020-0839 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Ja Young (Jacey) Choe ◽

Jinkyung Jenny Kim ◽

Jinsoo Hwang

Keyword(s):

Perceived Risk ◽

Food Delivery ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Stable Operation ◽

Content Type ◽

Before And After ◽

Delivery Services ◽

Psychological Risks ◽

The Relationship ◽

Practical Implications

Purpose The purpose of this study was to explore if five subdimensions of perceived risk (financial, time, privacy, performance and psychological risks) negatively affects image. In addition, this study aims to investigate if image has a positive effect on intentions to use. Lastly, the purpose of this study was to examine the moderating effect of Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19), before and after the outbreak, in the relationship between perceived risk and image. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from 331 people before the COVID-19 outbreak and 343 people after the COVID-19 outbreak. To test hypotheses, this study used structural equation modeling. Findings Time, performance and psychological risks negatively affected image before the outbreak of COVID-19. Meanwhile, performance risks and psychological risks had a negative influence on image only after the outbreak of COVID-19. In addition, there was demonstrated to be a positive relationship between image and intentions to use, both before and after the COVID-19 outbreak. Finally, the outbreak of COVID-19 positively moderates the relationship between performance risk and image. Practical implications The current study provides the following practical implications. First, industry practitioners need to develop a performance guarantee system which enhances the quality assurance of drone food delivery services (DFDS). Second, live streaming or creative activities would help to visualize DFDS in a way that stresses the stable operation of these services. Originality/value The importance of contactless services has been emphasized ever since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak. However, there has been very little research on the future of contactless services after COVID-19. This study investigated the perceived risk from DFDS as a form of contactless service which has not been conducted before. The findings of this study will improve the understanding of the changes that have occurred in consumers’ perception of risk from DFDS during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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TREATMENT OF MILD HYPERTENSION: PSYCHOLOGICAL RISKS

The Medical Journal of Australia ◽

10.5694/j.1326-5377.1981.tb135398.x ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 1 (3) ◽

pp. 142-142

Keyword(s):

Mild Hypertension ◽

Psychological Risks

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Risk Assessment of Medical Study Procedures in the Documents Submitted to a Research Ethics Committee

Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics ◽

10.1177/1556264620903563 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 15 (5) ◽

pp. 396-406

Author(s):

Saara Happo ◽

Tapani Keränen ◽

Arja Halkoaho ◽

Soili M. Lehto

Keyword(s):

Risk Assessment ◽

Research Ethics ◽

Ethics Committees ◽

Risk Assessments ◽

Medical Procedures ◽

Medical Studies ◽

Medical Study ◽

Study Protocols ◽

Psychological Risks ◽

Participant Information

Several frameworks assist research ethics committees (RECs) in risk assessment of medical studies. However, little is known about how researchers describe risks of the procedures in study protocols and participant information sheets. We examined 349 study protocols and participant information sheets submitted to an REC and evaluated the risk assessments performed for 1,510 study procedures. Risks had been assessed for 399 (26%) procedures in study protocols and for 425 (28%) procedures in participant information sheets. Physical risks were assessed six times more frequently than psychological risks. Risks of medical procedures are not always detailed in study protocols or participant information sheets. Risk descriptions of procedures believed to be familiar to potential participants may be omitted.

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Disclosure Two Ways

The Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics ◽

10.1111/jlme.12239 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 43 (2) ◽

pp. 245-254 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Erin B. Bernstein

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Reproductive Health ◽

Assisted Reproduction ◽

State Legislatures ◽

The State ◽

Health Impacts ◽

The Past ◽

Abortion Rights ◽

State Statutes ◽

Psychological Risks

In the past two decades, courts and scholars have grappled with the appropriateness of pre-abortion disclosures mandated by the state. Statutes requiring physicians to recite a specific script, often detailing potential psychological “risks” of choosing to terminate a pregnancy, have proliferated nationwide over the past decade. Opponents of such laws have sometimes characterized the requirement of a procedurespecific disclosure as unnecessary and unique to the abortion context. In recent years, however, state legislatures supportive of abortion rights have legislated procedure-specific mandatory disclosures in the context of assisted reproduction and other health care procedures with reproductive health impacts.

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The Post-Coronavirus World in the International Tourism Industry: Application of the Theory of Planned Behavior to Safer Destination Choices in the Case of US Outbound Tourism

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph17186485 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (18) ◽

pp. 6485

Author(s):

Heesup Han ◽

Amr Al-Ansi ◽

Bee-Lia Chua ◽

Beenish Tariq ◽

Aleksandar Radic ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Theory Of Planned Behavior ◽

Planned Behavior ◽

Subjective Norm ◽

Tourism Industry ◽

Perceived Knowledge ◽

The Us ◽

Decision Making Processes ◽

Travel Decision ◽

Psychological Risks ◽

Psychological Risk

The tourism industry has been seriously suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis ever since its outbreak. Given this pandemic situation, the major aim of this study is to develop a conceptual framework that clearly explains the US international tourists’ post-pandemic travel behaviors by expanding the theory of planned behavior (TPB). By utilizing a quantitative process, the TPB was successfully broadened by incorporating the travelers’ perceived knowledge of COVID-19, and it has been deepened by integrating the psychological risk. Our theoretical framework sufficiently accounted for the US tourists’ post-pandemic travel intentions for safer international destinations. In addition, the perceived knowledge of COVID-19 contributed to boosting the prediction power for the intentions. The associations among the subjective norm, the attitude, and the intentions are under the significant influence of the tourists’ psychological risks regarding international traveling. The comparative criticality of the subjective norm is found. Overall, the findings of this study considerably enhanced our understanding of US overseas tourists’ post-pandemic travel decision-making processes and behaviors.

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Risk factors for the emergence of moral alienation of students in the educational environment of a modern university

SHS Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/shsconf/20197008029 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 70 ◽

pp. 08029

Author(s):

Zalina Malieva ◽

Boris Takhokhov

Keyword(s):

Risk Factors ◽

Interpersonal Relations ◽

Professional Competence ◽

Risk Groups ◽

Educational Process ◽

Management Style ◽

Modern World ◽

Psychological Violence ◽

The University ◽

Psychological Risks

The problem of alienation of youth from traditional cultural and moral values is one of the urgent in the modern information world. For a comprehensive solution to this problem in the educational process of the university, it is necessary to determine the risk factors emergence for the moral alienation of students. The article reveals the content of the main risk groups: 1) external risks caused by the general cultural tendencies of the modern world (the sociocultural crisis of the information civilization associated with the loss of a stable worldview by a person); 2) information risks arising from the use of information technology (massive impact of rapidly growing volumes of heterogeneous information; attractiveness of the virtual world); 3) organizational and pedagogical risks caused by negative phenomena in the educational space (low level of professional competence; irrational organization of the educational process); 4) psychological risks associated with factors of causing psychological damage to students in the process of interpersonal relations (professional burnout of a teacher; authoritarian management style; psychological violence, low self-esteem of a student). The results of the study allow us to identify the main areas of pedagogical activity on the prevention of moral alienation of students at a university.

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Childhood Misfortune and Late-Life Stroke Incidence, 2004–2014

The Gerontologist ◽

10.1093/geront/gnaa007 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 60 (6) ◽

pp. 1060-1070

Author(s):

Callie J Zaborenko ◽

Kenneth F Ferraro ◽

Monica M Williams-Farrelly

Keyword(s):

Longitudinal Data ◽

Adolescent Depression ◽

Stroke Risk ◽

Later Life ◽

Stroke Incidence ◽

Psychological Risks ◽

Psychological Risk ◽

Design And Methods ◽

The Relationship ◽

Retirement Study

Abstract Background and Objectives Although most strokes occur in later life, recent studies reveal that negative exposures decades earlier are associated with stroke risk. The purpose of this study was to examine whether accumulated and/or specific domains of early misfortune are related to stroke incidence in later life. Research Design and Methods A decade of longitudinal data from stroke-free participants 50 years or older in the Health and Retirement Study were analyzed (N = 12,473). Incident stroke was defined as either self-reported first incident stroke or death due to stroke between 2004 and 2014. Results Analyses revealed that accumulated misfortune was associated with increased stroke risk, but the relationship was moderated by wealth. Examining specific domains of childhood misfortune revealed that stroke incidence was greater for persons with behavioral/psychological risks, but that this relationship also was moderated by higher wealth for those with only one behavioral/psychological risk. Discussion and Implications Accumulated childhood misfortune and adolescent depression heighten the risk of stroke in later life, but the influence is remediable through adult wealth. Reducing poverty in later life may decrease stroke incidence for persons exposed to negative childhood exposures.

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