The Risk Factors of Auto-Destructive Behavior in Adolescents

The research features modern domestic and foreign fundamental approaches to self-destructive behavior and suicidal risk. The author adduces the data on the structure of suicidal risk, its affective, cognitive, and behavioral characteristics. The paper also describes the concept of increasing potential risk factors and predicates presented by M. D. Rudd, as well as an analysis of the theory of suicidal barometer developed by K. M. Harris, J. J. Syu, O. D. Lello, Y. L. Chew, C. H. Willcox, and R. H. Ho. It also features situational and personal factors of suicidal risk, both potential and actual. The paper focuses on predictors of the genesis and development of predisposition to auto-destructive behavior in adolescents.The research objective was to study the characteristics of risk factors of autodestructive behavior in adolescents. The sample group included 116 participants, 14–16-year-old students of 9–10 grades. The author described situational and personal risk factors of auto-destructive behavior in adolescents. They revealed a correlation between personal relations with inner circle and neighborhood society, as well as affective, cognitive, and behavioral personality factors of autodestructive risk.

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Cumulative Risks from Stressor Exposures and Personal Risk Factors in the Workplace: Examples from a Scoping Review

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph18115850 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 (11) ◽

pp. 5850

Author(s):

Mary A. Fox ◽

Richard Todd Niemeier ◽

Naomi Hudson ◽

Miriam R. Siegel ◽

Gary Scott Dotson

Keyword(s):

Risk Factors ◽

Risk Assessment ◽

Scoping Review ◽

Multiple Stressors ◽

Cumulative Risk ◽

Real Life ◽

Personal Factors ◽

Exposure Limits ◽

Personal Risk ◽

Personal Risk Factors

Protecting worker and public health involves an understanding of multiple determinants, including exposures to biological, chemical, or physical agents or stressors in combination with other determinants including type of employment, health status, and individual behaviors. This has been illustrated during the COVID-19 pandemic by increased exposure and health risks for essential workers and those with pre-existing conditions, and mask-wearing behavior. Health risk assessment practices for environmental and occupational health typically do not incorporate multiple stressors in combination with personal risk factors. While conceptual developments in cumulative risk assessment to inform a more holistic approach to these real-life conditions have progressed, gaps remain, and practical methods and applications are rare. This scoping review characterizes existing evidence of combined stressor exposures and personal factors and risk to foster methods for occupational cumulative risk assessment. The review found examples from many workplaces, such as manufacturing, offices, and health care; exposures to chemical, physical, and psychosocial stressors combined with modifiable and unmodifiable determinants of health; and outcomes including respiratory function and disease, cancers, cardio-metabolic diseases, and hearing loss, as well as increased fertility, menstrual dysfunction and worsened mental health. To protect workers, workplace exposures and modifiable and unmodifiable characteristics should be considered in risk assessment and management. Data on combination exposures can improve assessments and risk estimates and inform protective exposure limits and management strategies.

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Epidemiology of work related neck and upper limb problems: Psychosocial and personal risk factors (Part I) and effective interventions from a bio behavioural perspective (Part II)

Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation ◽

10.1007/s10926-006-9044-1 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 16 (3) ◽

pp. 272-295 ◽

Cited By ~ 253

Author(s):

P. M. Bongers ◽

S. Ijmker ◽

S. van den Heuvel ◽

B. M. Blatter

Keyword(s):

Risk Factors ◽

Upper Limb ◽

Work Related ◽

Personal Risk ◽

Effective Interventions ◽

Personal Risk Factors

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Personal risk factors associated with heat-related illness among new conscripts undergoing basic training in Thailand

PLoS ONE ◽

10.1371/journal.pone.0203428 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 13 (9) ◽

pp. e0203428 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Rudchanu Nutong ◽

Mathirut Mungthin ◽

Panadda Hatthachote ◽

Supak Ukritchon ◽

Worarachanee Imjaijit ◽

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Keyword(s):

Risk Factors ◽

Basic Training ◽

Factors Associated ◽

Personal Risk ◽

Personal Risk Factors

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Evaluating Relationships Among Personal Risk Factors, Ambient Oxidant Exposure, and Chronic Respiratory Illness

Susceptibility to Inhaled Pollutants ◽

10.1520/stp22836s ◽

2008 ◽

pp. 174-174-8

Author(s):

JD Hackney ◽

WS Linn

Keyword(s):

Risk Factors ◽

Respiratory Illness ◽

Personal Risk ◽

Personal Risk Factors

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Work-Related Musculoskeletal Symptoms among Loggers in the Ark-La-Tex Region

Journal of Agromedicine ◽

10.1080/1059924x.2019.1567423 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 24 (2) ◽

pp. 167-176

Author(s):

Rodriguez ◽

Casanova ◽

Levin ◽

Gimeno Ruiz de Porras ◽

Douphrate

Keyword(s):

Risk Factors ◽

Environmental Conditions ◽

Lower Extremities ◽

Musculoskeletal Symptoms ◽

Work Related ◽

Personal Risk ◽

Industrial Sectors ◽

Lower Back ◽

Related Risk ◽

Personal Risk Factors

Background: The U.S. logging sector is among the most dangerous industrial sectors, with high fatality and non-fatal injury rates. Limited research has addressed work-related musculoskeletal disorders among logging machine operators (LMOs). The purpose of this study was to estimate the 12-month prevalence of musculoskeletal symptoms and the associated work-related risk factors among LMOs in the Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas (Ark-La-Tex) logging region.Methods: A self-administered 93-item questionnaire with six different sections: (1) demographics, (2) lifestyle and medical background, (3) work experience, (4) job training, (5) occupational heat-related stress, and (6) occupational injuries and MSS was administered to LMOs (n = 88) using Qualtrics Mobile Survey Software®. Poisson regression models were used to estimate crude prevalence ratios (PR), adjusted PR [aPR], and corresponding 95% confidence intervals (95% CI).Results: Regarding organizational, ergonomic, and handling equipment occupational factors and 12-month MSS prevalence, the adjusted model controlled for age, BMI, smoking status, and drinking status. For organizational, the most problematic factors for the lower back were performing a task over and over (63.2%) and working very fast, for short periods (60.0%). For ergonomics, the most problematic factor for the lower extremities was awkward or cramped conditions (58.1%) and for the lower back was bending/twisting back awkward (55.9%). Last, for handling equipment, the most problematic for both the lower back and lower extremities was handling or grasping small objects (57.1%).Conclusion: Our findings revealed associations between work-related MSS and specific job factors (e.g., organizational, ergonomic, handling equipment, etc.), extreme environmental conditions or environmental, and personal risk factors. In particular, study findings suggest lower back and lower extremities MSS are associated with the a majority of job-related risk factors, lower extremities with extreme environmental conditions, and neck and upper back with personal risk factors.

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