RAS 200 project helps prisoners to bounce back

How to bounce back from adversity.

The brief resilience scale: assessing the ability to bounce back.

BACKGROUND While resilience has been defined as resistance to illness, adaptation, and thriving, the ability to bounce back or recover from stress is closest to its original meaning. Previous resilience measures assess resources that may promote resilience rather than recovery, resistance, adaptation, or thriving. PURPOSE To test a new brief resilience scale. METHOD The brief resilience sca...

Prisoners and cigarettes or ‘imprisoned in cigarettes’? What helps prisoners quit smoking?

BACKGROUND The aim of the study was, despite the special characteristics of prisons, to identify the features which led prisoners who attended the Smoking Cessation Centre at the Kassavetia Detention Centre in Volos (region of Thessaly, in the central part of mainland Greece) to quit smoking. METHODS Personal interviews with 204 male prisoners irrespective of smoking habitus over the period J...

Spectral analysis of transport equations with bounce-back boundary conditions

We investigate the spectral properties of the time-dependent linear transport equation with bounce-back boundary conditions. A fine analysis of the spectrum of the streaming operator is given and the explicit expression of the strongly continuous streaming semigroup is derived. Next, making use of a recent result from [1], we prove, via a compactness argument, that the essential spectrum of the...

Bounce-back visits in a rural emergency department.

INTRODUCTION The rate of return visits at urban emergency departments (EDs) has been reported as approximately 3% within 72 hours of discharge. However, the current literature does not indicate the rate of return visits for rural EDs. The purpose of this study was to determine the bounce-back rate at a rural ED and to characterize the visits. METHODS A retrospective chart review was performed...