Resilience in Context: The Association between Neighborhood Disadvantage and Cumulative Positive Childhood Experiences among Justice-Involved Youth

Alongside the research on the impact of cumulative trauma on later outcomes, scholars have started to investigate how an accumulation of protective factors may buffer adverse outcomes. However, these studies have failed to consider how one’s social context, in particular the levels of social disorganization and immigrant concentration present, may be associated with the accumulation of protective factors. Using data from the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice, the current study examines how both youth- and neighborhood-level factors predict cumulative positive childhood experiences (PCEs) among justice-involved youth. The results indicated that while immigrant concentration is unassociated with PCE accumulation, social disorganization is negatively associated with the number of PCEs, holding all else constant.

Design, Optimization and Analysis of Lifting Tackle using Ansys software

Lifting of heavy products and machinery’s is one of the major causes of injury in the working place or station. One of the incidents which took place in 2001, the Bureau of labor statics reported that over 28-35 percentage of disaster injuries were shoulder & back injuries. • Musculoskeletal injuries (MSIs) to arms, legs and joints and repetitive strain injuries of various sorts. • Overexertion. • Cumulative trauma. The above stated problems are the biggest factors in the injuries, which are noticed in labours while lifting and moving of heavy parts or machineries. • For detailed & more information about the injuries caused during lifting of heavy parts is mentioned in the site which is in bibliography. When an employee makes use of smart lifting practices, which are in means of mechanical gears or elements and electronics configuration which makes ease to lift any heavy products or machineries.

Detrimental Associations of Cumulative Trauma, COVID-19 Infection Indicators, Avoidance, and Loneliness With Sleep and Negative Emotionality in Emerging Adulthood During the Pandemic

While effects of COVID-19 on physical health are the subject of much research, it is also important to understand risk factors for negative psychosocial and behavioral outcomes. Undergraduates ( N = 490, M age = 20.4) completed measures regarding prior trauma, COVID-19 infection indicators, stressors and trauma, coping, loneliness, social support, sleep behaviors, and negative emotionality. Results demonstrate that pre-existing trauma, COVID-19 stressors, loneliness, and avoidant coping exhibit independent and synergistic associations with poor sleep quality and negative emotionality. Associations between both COVID-19 stressors and avoidant coping with sleep quality were the strongest among those with higher levels of cumulative trauma. Avoidant coping was most strongly associated with higher levels of negative emotions among those reporting COVID infection indicators. Findings suggest a comprehensive set of specific pandemic and general life factors associated with worse outcomes, contributing to the development of a conceptual model of pandemic behavioral and emotional risk for emerging adults.

THE CONCEPT OF CUMULATIVE TRAUMA IN TIMES OF COVID-19: COULD KHANS THEORY BECOME USEFUL AGAIN?

"The paper discusses whether the psychoanalytic concept of Cumulative Trauma could be a valuable theoretical contribution in understanding possible traumatization’s of children in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, as they may quite often face a multiple stressed parent during a lockdown, who’s parental function is on the verge breaching. This concept of trauma as established by British Psychoanalyst Masud Khan in 1963 was hardly taken into account in recent trauma research and it has seen little discussion in psychodynamic literature; if at all, it has been used as a merely descriptive category, without considering the suspension of the parental care function, which was identified as the decisive traumatogenic factor for the child’s traumatization. The paper begins with a recapitulation of the original theory and then moves on to linking the Cumulative Trauma to current research contexts (attachment, mentalization, developmental trauma disorder). Finally, the relevance of the concept for parenting in times of the Covid-19 pandemic is explored on the basis of a short clinical case example."

Quantitative Models for Prediction of Cumulative Trauma Disorders Applied to the Maquiladora Industry

Temperature gradient changes on the surface of the skin or in the middle of the body are signs of a disease. The aim of this study is to develop quantitative models for the prediction of cumulative trauma disorders (CTDs) arising from highly repetitive activities, considering risk factors, such as age, gender, body mass index (BMI), blood pressure (BP), respiratory rate (RR), and heart rate, to prevent injuries in manufacturing factory operators. This research involved 19 individuals from the area of sanding and 14 individuals from the area of tolex in manufacturing factories who had their vital signs and somatometry taken, as well as thermal images of their hands in the dorsal and palmar areas; an evaluation by the OCRA method was also applied. Factors such as BP and heart rate were determined to significantly influence the injuries, but no strong association with BMI was found. Quadratic regression models were developed, the estimates of which were adequately adjusted to the variable (R2 and R2 adjusted > 0.70). When integrating the factors of the OCRA method to the generated models, a better fit was obtained (R2 and adjusted R2 > 0.80). In conclusion, the participants who present levels out of the normal range in at least one of the factors have high probabilities of developing injuries in their wrists.

Organização do trabalho e adoecimento dos bancários: uma revisão de literatura

RESUMO Este artigo apresenta uma análise de produções científicas das relações entre saúde e trabalho dos trabalhadores bancários, encontradas em teses, dissertações, artigos das literaturas nacional e inter nacional, produzidos nas línguas portuguesa, inglesa e espanhola, no período de 2008 a 2018. A pesquisa foi feita em bases de dados da Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde e da PubMed, utilizando-se os temas ‘bank workers’ e ‘bank employees’, assim como os descritores ‘environmental health’, ‘antidepressive agents’, ‘occupational diseases’, ‘stress, psychological’, ‘depressive disorder’, ‘burnout, professional’, ‘cumulative trauma disorders’ e os termos livres ‘occupational stress’, ‘stress’, ‘ psychological distress’ e ‘psychosocial work environment’. Foram encontrados 120 estudos, dos quais, 37 tratavam especificamente do tema. A análise permitiu encontrar uma descrição da visão predominante na literatura acerca das características do trabalho nos bancos que se relacionam ao sofrimento, ao desgaste e ao adoecimento dos trabalhadores. A forma de organização do processo de trabalho no setor bancário se relaciona com o sofrimento e o adoecimento, podendo levar ao suicídio. Apesar da relação estabelecida entre trabalho e adoecimento, a descrição da organização do trabalho é superficial nos estudos, sendo seu aprofundamento importante para a compreensão e a transformação desse panorama.