OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of, and risk factors for, receiving medical attention for a recent injurious fall among middle-aged and older adults who have multiple sclerosis (MS). DESIGN Survey. SETTING United States. PARTICIPANTS Seven hundred people with MS, age 55 years or older and living in the United States, were randomly selected from the North American Research Committee ...

In Western research, self-injurious behaviors are commonly viewed as "feminine" behavior. In this present study, using the data from a survey administered to 960 first- and second-year students in Xi'an Jiaotong University in China, the self-injurious behaviors among college students are analyzed by sex. The results reported that the average prevalence of self-injurious behaviors among male stu...

OBJECTIVES To identify clinical factors associated with falls by older persons with polyneuropathy (PN). DESIGN A cross-sectional study of 82 subjects aged 50 to 85 with clinical and electrodiagnostic evidence of PN. SETTING Electrodiagnostic and biomechanical research laboratories. PARTICIPANTS Patients referred to the electrodiagnostic laboratory. MEASUREMENTS History and physical exa...

ABSTRACT Staff beliefs toward patient self-harm in secure forensic services are explored, capturing nurses and other clinical staff from four units one National Health Service trust, comprising high through low learning disability. One hundred fifty-five respondents took part (overall completion rate: 61%). The Theory-Driven Measure of Self-Injurious Behavior the Suicide Competency Assessment F...

BACKGROUND Older people are at increased risk of falls after hospital discharge. This study aimed to describe the circumstances of falls in the six months after hospital discharge and to identify factors associated with the time and location of these falls. METHODS Participants in this randomized controlled study comprised fallers (n = 138) who were part of a prospective observational cohort ...

This study examined characteristics associated with mildly injurious (fingernail biting, skin picking, etc.) and more injurious (cutting, burning, etc.) self-harm (SH) in an undergraduate sample (N = 280); 31% reported mildly injurious SH within the past 3 years with no more injurious SH, whereas 20% reported more injurious SH within the past 3 years. SH was not associated with significant gene...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether older adults with diabetes are at increased risk of an injurious fall requiring hospitalization. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS The longitudinal Health, Aging, and Body Composition Study included 3,075 adults aged 70-79 years at baseline. Hospitalizations that included ICD-9-Clinical Modification codes for a fall and an injury were identified. The effect of diabete...

BACKGROUND The standardisation of the assessment methodology and case definition represents a major precondition for the comparison of study results and the conduction of meta-analyses. International guidelines provide recommendations for the standardisation of falls methodology; however, injurious falls have not been targeted. The aim of the present article was to review systematically the ran...

We aimed to identify the presence of self-injurious behavior in a sample of 158 people with intellectual disability and epilepsy as compared with a control sample consisting of 195 people with intellectual disability without epilepsy. The Italian Scale for the Assessment of self-injurious behaviors was used to describe self-injurious behavior in both groups. The groups were matched for ID degre...

To determine the physiological factors and medications predicting injurious falls among the elderly population, the authors conducted a prospective study in a rural home-dwelling population aged 70 years or over, initially 979 persons (377 men and 602 women), from 1 January 1991 to 31 December 1992, in Northern Finland. The independent risk factors for all falling injuries, falls leading to min...