http://www.safetylit.org/Welcome to SafetyLit, the online source for recent research about injury prevention.Risk Perception and Communication, Warnings, Operating Instructionshttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_184465_14It has been hypothesized that reward-seeking and impulsivity develop along different timetables and have different neural underpinnings, and that the difference in their timetables helps account for heightened risk-taking during adolescence. In order to te...Risk Perception and Communication, Warnings, Operating Instructionshttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_184692_14From the perspective of prosocial behavior, bystander intervention is conditioned by situational factors; from an informal social control perspective, bystander intervention has been demonstrated to be associated with level of crime and violence at the com...Risk Perception and Communication, Warnings, Operating Instructionshttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_184644_14BACKGROUND: A vast majority of traumatic brain injuries sustained by military personnel are mild in severity. In 2008, the United States Department of Defense officially mandated a screening program designed to identify deployment-related mild traumatic br...Risk Perception and Communication, Warnings, Operating Instructionshttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_184658_14OBJECTIVE: We investigate (1) whether presenting consequences of health-related behaviors in terms of life expectancy, rather than risk of disease, improves recall and (2) if yes, through which underlying mechanisms; (3) whether these effects hold for both...Risk Perception and Communication, Warnings, Operating Instructionshttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_184498_14This study examined the longitudinal association between contextual stress and health risk behaviors and the role of protective factors in a community epidemiologically-defined sample of urban African American adolescents (N = 500; 46.4% female). Structura...Risk Perception and Communication, Warnings, Operating Instructionshttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_184688_14Previous studies described the characteristics of individuals committed under sexual offender civil commitment laws in Arizona, Florida, and Washington. This study describes the diagnostic and risk profiles of 331 sexual offenders held under Wisconsin’s ...Risk Perception and Communication, Warnings, Operating Instructionshttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_184716_14Lack of privacy, risk of bullying, limited access, lack of essential products for good hygiene, and dirty bathrooms can all contribute to encouraging a child to withhold urine and stool while in school. Withholding behaviors over time can create a conditio...Risk Perception and Communication, Warnings, Operating Instructionshttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_184469_14The mortality in prisoners is high. However, our knowledge about the mortality in convicted offenders, irrespective of incarceration history, is limited. Our aim was to investigate possible predictors for over-all and cause specific mortality in a nation-w...Risk Perception and Communication, Warnings, Operating Instructionshttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_184652_14BACKGROUND:: Installation of red light cameras (RLC) at intersections associated with a high number of traffic accidents are currently in use to reduce the number of traffic collisions. The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the sustained effe...Risk Perception and Communication, Warnings, Operating Instructionshttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_184504_14Bullying may have a number of negative health impacts on children. Previous studies have mainly explored negative health consequences related to being bullied. A different approach is to explore how these phenomena are related to the school child's quality...Risk Perception and Communication, Warnings, Operating Instructionshttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_184653_14BACKGROUND:: Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death among teenagers because of higher crash rates per mile driven and low seat belt use rates. METHODS:: An educational program aimed at increasing seat belt use among teens was implemented at f...Risk Perception and Communication, Warnings, Operating Instructionshttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_184122_14Most models of the incidence of occupational accidents in the construction industry are composed of multiple factors. Although statistical techniques can be used to infer cause-and-effect relationships among these factors, the large number of factors invol...Risk Perception and Communication, Warnings, Operating Instructionshttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_184632_14Intimate partner violence (IPV) screening and referral are routinely practiced by various healthcare providers. Although facilitators and barriers to IPV disclosure have been previously explored, healthcare providers' role in linking patients to longer-ter...Risk Perception and Communication, Warnings, Operating Instructionshttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_184661_14The subject of the paper is the presentation of simple phobias, with particular attention to those connected with natural environment, their classification according to ICD-10 and DSM-IV systems, current views on aetiology and pathogenesis of phobic fear, ...Risk Perception and Communication, Warnings, Operating Instructionshttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_184042_14This article examines how American middle-class children learn and acquire culturally appropriate emotions and sentiments, focusing especially on children’s experiences. By analysing children’s emotional worlds as well as adult socialization practices,...