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Mental health and marginalization stress in transgender and gender diverse adults: differences between urban and non-urban experiences - Ralston AL, Holt NR, Andrews AR, Huit TZ, Puckett JA, Woodruff N, Mocarski R, Hope DA.
BACKGROUND: Transgender and gender diverse (TGD) individuals face high rates of psychological distress, including depression, anxiety, and suicide risk. Further, TGD individuals living outside of urban areas experience additional disparities compared to th... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 8, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Management of traumatic brain injury in Africa: challenges and opportunities - Muili AO, Kuol PP, Jobran AWM, Lawal RA, Agamy AA, Bankole NDA.
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major public health concern globally, with significant implications for morbidity, mortality, and long-term disability. While extensive research has been conducted on TBI management in high-income countries, limited attent... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 8, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Women report worse neurobehavioral symptoms than men following mild traumatic brain injury in U.S. military service members - Babakhanyan I, Brickell TA, Bailie J, Hungerford L, Lippa SM, French LM, Lange RT.
Women are more directly involved in combat operations today than ever before, currently making up 18.6% of officers and 16.8% of enlisted personnel in the US military. However, women continue to be underrepresented in military research. Studies which do co... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 8, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Who was at risk of trauma-related injuries during the COVID-19 pandemic? A retrospective study from a level 1 trauma centre in Switzerland - Flury T, Gerber J, Anwander H, Muller M, Jakob DA, Exadaktylos A, Klingberg K.
INTRODUCTION: During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, increasingly strict restrictions were imposed on the activities of the Swiss population, with a peak from 21 March to 27 April 2020. Changes in trauma patterns during the pandemic and the lockdo... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 8, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

When one tool is not enough: an integrative psychotherapeutic approach to treating complex PTSD - Horesh D, Lahav Y.
Complex posttraumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) is a term representing the psychopathological implications of exposure to chronic, inter-personal trauma. These include the main symptoms of PTSD, as well as changes in identity, emotion regulation, and inter-p... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 8, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Relatively unworthy victims? Middle-aged women as rape survivors - Kwon M, Su Y.
This study examines how the age of female survivors impacts public perceptions of rape in China. In our online survey experiment, participants consider rape as less serious when the survivor is a middle-aged woman compared to other groups of women (younger... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 6, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Identification of the best machine learning model for the prediction of driver injury severity - Sorum NG, Pal D.
Predicting the injury severities sustained by drivers engaged in road traffic accidents is a key topic of research in road traffic safety. The current study analyzed the driver injury severity (DIS) using twelve machine learning (ML) algorithms. These mode... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 6, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Equitable access to quality injury care; Equi-Injury project protocol for prioritizing interventions in four low- or middle-income countries: a mixed method study -
BACKGROUND: Equitable access to quality care after injury is an essential step for improved health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). We introduce the Equi-Injury project, in which we will use integrated frameworks to understand how to i... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 6, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

A qualitative study of supporters of adults following a suicide-related psychiatric emergency - Dodge J, Stern K, Smith T, Magness CS, Garlick J, Garland S, Pfeiffer PN, Foster CE.
INTRODUCTION: Family, friends, and romantic partners (i.e., supporters) play a key role in the implementation of safety and support measures for loved ones with elevated risk for suicide; yet despite the link between interpersonal factors and suicide risk,... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 6, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

What does the military health system need to support future combat operations? Lessons from aeromedical evacuations from 2008 to 2020 - McDonough MM, Gray IR, Pickering RG, Remick KN.
INTRODUCTION: Aeromedical evacuations from the past few decades have yielded massive amounts of data that may inform the Military Health System (MHS) on patient needs, specifically for understanding the inpatient and outpatient needs of evacuees. In this s... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 6, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

The risk associated with organophosphorus nerve agents: from their discovery to their unavoidable threat, current medical countermeasures and perspectives - Voros C, Dias J, Timperley CM, Nachon F, Brown RCD, Baati R.
The first organophosphorus nerve agent was discovered accidently during the development of pesticides, shortly after the first use of chemical weapons (chlorine, phosgene) on the battlefield during World War I. Despite the Chemical Weapons Convention banni... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 6, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

The postconcussion syndrome and posttraumatic headaches in civilians, soldiers, and athletes - Evans RW.
Posttraumatic headaches are one of the most common and controversial secondary headache types. After a mild traumatic brain, an estimated 11% to 82% of people develop a postconcussion syndrome, which has been controversial for more than 160 years. Headache... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 6, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Subclinical, long-term psychological symptoms following sport-related concussion: are athletes more depressed than we think? - Burns C, Jo J, Williams K, Davis P, Amedy A, Anesi TJ, Prosak OL, Rigney GH, Terry DP, Zuckerman SL.
INTRODUCTION: In adolescent and collegiate athletes with sport-related concussion (SRC), we sought to evaluate the prevalence and predictors of long-term psychological symptoms. METHODS: A cohort study was conducted of athletes 12-24-year-old diagn... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 6, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Sickness absence and disability pension after road traffic accidents, a nationwide register-based study comparing different road user groups with matched references - Kjeldg ård L, Stigson H, Farrants K, Friberg E.
BACKGROUND: Being injured in a road traffic accident may affect individuals' functional ability and in turn lead to sickness absence (SA) and disability pension (DP). Knowledge regarding long-term consequences in terms of SA and DP following a road traffic... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 6, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Brain Iron Accumulates With Post-Traumatic Headache
(MedPage Today) -- Brain iron accumulated in people with acute post-traumatic headache, an imaging study showed. Higher levels of iron based on T2* signal changes were seen in post-traumatic headache participants relative to healthy controls... (Source: MedPage Today Neurology)
Source: MedPage Today Neurology - April 5, 2024 Category: Neurology Source Type: news