Community dwelling elderly people with a history of falls are likely to sustain subsequent falls and injurious falls. Elderly people who have had a previous fall with a fracture are at an increased risk of major injurious fall. However, the recurrence of major fall injuries other than fractures remains unknown. We conducted a prospective population-based cohort study among home dwelling elderly...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether depressed mood and anger mediate the effects of sexual abuse and family conflict/violence on self-injurious behavior and substance use. METHODS A cross-sectional national survey was conducted including 9,085 16-19 year old students attending all high schools in Iceland in 2004. Participants reported frequency of sexual abuse, family conflict/violence, self-injurio...

Suicide as a word is of origin in the English Language, derived from the modern Latin suiciduim, which in turn stems from the Latin pronoun for ‘self ’ and verb ‘to kill’. American Psychiatric Association [1] has illustrated a number of suiciderelated key terms, such as: suicide that is self imposed death with confirmation that the person intended to die by killing himself; suicidal ideation wh...

BACKGROUND The independent and combined influence of smoking, alcohol consumption, physical activity, diet, sitting time, and sleep duration and quality on health status is not routinely examined. This study investigates the relationships between these lifestyle behaviors, independently and in combination, and health-related quality of life (HRQOL). METHODS Adult members of the 10,000 Steps p...

Exposure to potentially morally injurious events has been shown to be associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression symptoms in military personnel. Few studies have examined factors that help to explain how potentially morally injurious events may contribute to the development of trauma-related psychopathology. Negative posttrauma cognitions are thought to play a role in t...

We assessed whether the stereotyped movements (SM) that are a defining characteristic of autism are discriminable from those observed in other disorders, and whether stereotyped self-injurious movements, which are excluded as exemplars of SM in DSM-IV, differ from other SM in severity or in kind. We used the Stereotyped and Self-Injurious Movement Interview to assess self-injurious and other SM...

The purpose of this study was to estimate the relative risk of an injurious fall requiring medical attention in veterans with multiple sclerosis (MS) compared with veterans without MS after controlling for sex, age, and healthcare use. The sample included 195,417 veterans treated at Veterans Health Administration (VHA) facilities in the Northwest United States in fiscal year 2008. We obtained i...