Opioid risk assessment and risk stratification has become a standard of care when prescribing opioid medications for chronic pain conditions. Research to date has shown that different risk assessment tools yield different accuracies in predicting future medication aberrant behavior. This study offers further validation data on a new opioid risk assessment tool, the Brief Risk Questionnaire (BRQ...

With the aim of improving human-centric risk communication, this research in progress paper argues for a social-cognitive perspective focusing on the interaction between laypeople and the information environment. A model is designed to predict laypeople’s environmental risk perception and information seeking behavior. Using data from a national online survey (N=1,032), our research is an effort...

OBJECTIVE To compare the relative importance on adolescent smoking of the influence from parental smoking and peer smoking. METHOD National New Zealand crosssectional survey of 14,936 female and 14,349 male Year 10 students (aged 14 and 15 years) who answered an anonymous self-administered questionnaire in November 2002. RESULTS Adolescents with both parents smoking had the highest smoking ...

Consider a random vector, and assume that a set of its moments information is known. Among all possible distributions obeying the given moments constraints, the envelope of the probability distribution functions is introduced in this paper as distributional robust probability function. We show that such a function is computable in the bi-variate case under some conditions. Connections to the ex...