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Eating Behaviors Associated With Suicidal Behaviors and Overall Risk

Journal of Psychiatric Practice, 2023
Objective: Maladaptive eating behaviors remain prevalent in the US population, and a significant percentage of US college students acknowledge engaging in maladaptive eating. Formally defined eating disorders (EDs) have one of the highest mortality rates among all mental illnesses.
David McCord, Terran Sutphin, Adam Hicks
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ASSAULTIVE BEHAVIOR: Know the Risks

Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, 1991
1. Violence in our society is an increasing national concern, and violence in health-care settings reflects this trend. Assaultive episodes continue to increase in health-care settings due to various cultural, sociological, and political factors. 2. Present administrative and educational solutions to the problems of assault have failed to decrease the ...
D T, Blair, S A, New
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Risk Overhang and Market Behavior

The Journal of Business, 1999
We show that exposure from past business transactions – risk overhang – can reduce activity in related business lines, sometimes to the point where no new trade occurs. We focus primarily on the role of overhang in nonlife insurance market disruptions.
Gron, Anne, Winton, Andrew
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The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System: Measuring Health-risk Behaviors

American Journal of Health Behavior, 2001
To measure priority health-riskbehaviors among youth.The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) monitors priority health-risk behaviors among youth.In 1999, many high school students practiced behaviors that contribute to leading health problems--16.4% rarely or never wore safety belts and, during the past 30 days, 17.3% carried a weapon, 34.8%
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Adolescent risk-taking behavior

Journal of Adolescent Health Care, 1987
There is general agreement that violence in adolescence is occurring at unprecedented and unacceptably high levels. Society has begun to grapple with this problem but lacks the information to help guide it toward a resolution. Are our young people purposely or unconsciously pursuing a self-destructive course?
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Risk-Taking Behaviors in Adolescence

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1987
The biopsychosocial phenomenon of adolescent substance use is of major importance to all health care professionals. As suggested by the excellent study of Robinson et al 1 in this issue ofThe Journaladolescent substance use should be viewed within the larger perspective of adolescent risktaking behaviors.
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Adolescent injury risk behavior

International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health, 2004
Health-risk behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of morbidity and mortality among adolescents and young adults are often established during adolescence and extended into adulthood. Unintentional motor vehicle injury is the leading cause of mortality in childhood and adolescence in developed countries.
Joav, Merrick, Isack, Kandel, Liora, Birnbaum, Eytan, Hyam, Joseph, Press, Mohammed, Morad   +5 more
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Perceived risks and driving behavior

Accident Analysis & Prevention, 1986
Claims have been made that safer cars result in drivers who take more risks. However, there are two basic design changes that make cars safer: the first reduces the likelihood of a crash; the second reduces the chance of injury during a crash. Because design changes that reduce the likelihood of a crash also often provide direct and immediate feedback,
A K, Lund, B, O'Neill
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Behavioral risks for HIV in adolescents

Acta Paediatrica, 1994
A psychosocial perspective on adolescent risk behavior is used to highlight aspects of psychological development and social environment that are relevant to sexual activity and substance use. Differences in behavior are also related to factors such as age and gender that have biological, developmental, and demographic implications.
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Assessment of risk taking behavior.

Psychological Bulletin, 1964
Risk taking propensity has been hypothesized to be a general personality disposition and many devices have been proposed for use in its assessment. Several types of studies relevant to the validity of these measures are reviewed.
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