Introduction: Driver anger and aggression have been linked to crash involvement and injury outcomes. Improved road safety outcomes may be achieved through understanding the causes of driver anger, and interventions designed to reduce this anger or prevent it from becoming aggression. Scales to measure anger propensities will be an important tool in this work.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis Data in Brief (DiB) article presents the differences in cycling behaviors related to violations, errors, and positive behaviors by region. The study data were collected by means of a structured questionnaire applied to a full sample of 7,001 participants from 19 countries, distributed over 5 continents. This paper proposes descriptive statistics, as well as common statistical tests.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study aims to understand the relationship between Lifetime Classic Psychedelic Use (LCPU), employment status, and weekly work hours on levels of psychological distress. The data used for this analysis is pooled from the National Survey of Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) from 2008-2019 and includes a sample size of 484,732 individuals. The findings suggest that LCPU and being employed are independently associated with better health.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPeople driving in excess of the posted speed limit (referred to as speeding in English or Kaahaajat in Finnish) is a common road user behaviour. In Finland, between 2000 and 2020, speeding was identified as the key contributing factor in 41% of fatal motor vehicle collisions. This may be because disregarding speed limits on motorways and on residential roads are the most common violations performed by Finnish drivers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Light vehicles (<4.5 tons) driven for work purposes represent a significant proportion of the registered motor vehicles on our roads. Drivers of these vehicles have significant exposure to the dangers of the road transport environment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Aggressive driving contributes to crashes, which often result in serious or fatal injuries. Efforts to reduce road trauma need to include strategies to reduce emotional and aggressive driving. Thus far, solutions have not comprehensively addressed the reasons why drivers become aggressive.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAggressive driving is a significant road safety problem and is likely to get worse as the situations that provoke aggression become more prevalent in the road network (e.g. as traffic volumes and density increase and the grey fleet expands).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThere is limited evidence supporting the recommendation that drivers with insulin-treated diabetes need to start journeys with glucose >90 mg/dL. Glucose levels of drivers with type 1 diabetes were monitored for 3 weeks using masked continuous glucose monitoring (CGM). Eighteen drivers (median [IQR] age 40 [35, 51] years; 11 men) undertook 475 trips (duration 15 [13, 21] min).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Minimally invasive radical hysterectomy has been associated with increased recurrence of disease and worse survival compared with open radical hysterectomy for early-stage cervical cancer. We evaluated patterns of recurrence and histopathologic risk factors in patients who underwent robotic radical hysterectomy (RRH).
Methods: Patients who underwent RRH (4/2007-12/2018) were evaluated for specific locations of recurrent disease, disease-free survival, overall survival (OS), and histopathologic risk factors for recurrence.
Objective: Our objective was to assess safety and adverse events associated with intraperitoneal Olvi-Vec virotherapy in patients with platinum-resistant or refractory ovarian cancer (PRROC). Secondary objectives included objective response rate (ORR) per RECIST 1.1 and progression-free survival (PFS).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDriving anxiety can have deleterious effects not only on driving behavior, but also on life quality. The interaction between motor vehicle collision (MVC) experiences and driving anxiety has been studied from different standpoints. However, the comparison with other events triggering it has been scarcely considered.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Environ Res Public Health
March 2021
This research investigated how behaviours and attitudes of bicycle riders influence crash frequency and severity. The study recruited 1102 Australian bicycle riders for an online survey. The survey comprised questions on demographics, frequency of riding and the number and severity of traffic crashes during the last five years.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHigh-speed roads present a considerable level of risk for frontline workers operating in these environments. To optimise safety, prevention activities need to target the key skills required to mitigate risk. The aim of this research was to explore the behavioural (compliance, participation, voice), motivational (safety motivation) and work demand (role clarity) factors that influence safety outcomes for incident responders working on high-speed roads.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDeveloping countries have a high frequency of traffic incidents involving pedestrians. Given the vulnerability of pedestrians, many of these incidents result in serious or fatal injuries. The present study aimed to validate a pedestrian behavior questionnaire in Iran to investigate Persian pedestrian behaviors and to understand the relationship of these behaviors with demographic and mobility variables.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDespite the fact that mobile phones have been transformed over the last decade into information and communication hubs that are fundamental to modern life, there is little information on how this has impacted on mobile phone use while driving. The present study was conducted in Ukraine, where this risky behaviour remains a common driving practice, despite legislative bans. A total of 220 (male = 82%; mean age = 35.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: There has been extensive research into road user behavior, although how pedestrians express their anger has yet to be explored. This is important given the high vulnerability of pedestrians and the additional risks that angry people often undertake. The present study developed a tool to measure one's tendency to engage in aggressive acts while walking: The pedestrian anger expression inventory (PAX).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRoad user behaviour and personality traits are important determinants of driver crash risk. While a great deal of research has been undertaken to understand the relationships between crash involvement, behaviours and personality traits for motor vehicle drivers, comparatively few studies have considered these factors for cyclists. This manuscript presents the findings of a study conducted amongst a sample of six hundred and fifteen (615) Australian cyclists, investigating these issues.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe full impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on pregnancy remains uncharacterized. Current literature suggests minimal maternal, fetal, and neonatal morbidity and mortality. COVID-19 manifestations appear similar between pregnant and nonpregnant women.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Road Traffic Injuries (RTIs) are a leading cause of disabilities and mortalities in Iran. The occurrence of RTIs among children is increasing. This study aims are to assess RTIs among Iranian children and to determine the main socio-economics determinants.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Non-gestational choriocarcinomas represent a small subset of germ cell tumors. The majority of non-gestational choriocarcinomas arise from the gynecologic tract. In rare cases, they can originate from other sites, and very few such cases have been reported in peer-reviewed literature.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To establish the bilateral pelvic concordance rate of the sentinel lymph node (SLN) and determine the likelihood of lymph node metastasis in cases of mapping failure.
Methods: A database analysis was performed on 414 patients with clinical stage I endometrial cancer who underwent SLN mapping followed by robotic hysterectomy and completion pelvic (n=414, 100%) and aortic (n=186, 44.9%) lymphadenectomy from March 2011 to August 2016.
Objectives: To examine sentinel lymph node pathology and describe relationships to uterine pathology, non-sentinel pelvic lymph nodes, and para-aortic lymph nodes.
Methods: Patients with apparent uterine-confined endometrial cancer underwent robotic hysterectomy, SLN mapping, completion pelvic lymphadenectomy (LND), and para-aortic (PaLND) directed by frozen section. Patients were risk stratified by histology: low-risk (LR) endometrioid <50% depth-of-invasion (DOI), intermediate-risk (IR) endometrioid ≥50% DOI, and high-risk (HR) type II histology for comparison to other pelvic/aortic metastases.
There is a paucity of research regarding aggressive behaviours of on-road cyclists and the consequences that aggression may have on their safety. To address this, we examined self-reported anger-based aggression in a sample of "active" cyclists (N = 623: males = 69%) defined as those who regularly ride a bicycle on-road (all rode at least once a week, 64% rode between 4-7 days per week). Using the Cyclist Anger Expression Inventory (CAX) three broad types of anger-based aggression were identified: 1) constructive ways of dealing with anger, 2) verbal aggression and 3) personal physical aggression.
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