Poison, lies, war: A mixed methods content analysis of posts about COVID-19 vaccination on Gab Social.

Recent surges in COVID-19 cases demonstrate the unabated transmissibility of this disease. Despite the ongoing threat of contagion, however, uptake of the COVID-19 vaccines, especially as booster doses, remains suboptimal among eligible adults and children in the United States, as reported by the World Health Organization (WHO). Public attitudes toward these vaccines remain balkanized, with some groups harboring ambivalence or even opposition to receiving inoculation.

Exploration of sleep disturbances in children and adolescents with and without autism in a paediatric sample referred for polysomnography.

Aims: The purpose of the study was to increase the body of knowledge related to sleep in children with autism. The specific aims were to (i) identify the subgroup of children with autism, ages 3-17 years, referred for polysomnography and (ii) describe types and frequency of clinical encounters for sleep problems in a sample of children ages 3-17 with and without the diagnosis of autism.

Methods: The authors performed a secondary data analysis of the de-identified Nationwide Children's Hospital Sleep DataBank, a collection of encounters with children referred for polysomnography.

"But I think there's always been that stigma": Adult women's perceptions of menstrual product advertising.

The global value of the menstrual product market recently surpassed 40 billion dollars, yet little attention has been paid to how menstrual product advertising may impact women's perceptions of menstruation. We interviewed a diverse cohort of 18 adult women to understand how menstrual product advertising shapes women's interpretations of their bodies and the menstrual process. Three themes emerged, including gendered stigmatization, depictions of hyper-feminine women, and false narratives about periods.

A Social Identity Threat Perspective on Why Partisans May Engage in Greater Victim Blaming and Sexual Assault Myth Acceptance in the #MeToo Era.

This study examined how U.S. partisans ( = 1,154) may engage in greater victim blaming and sexual assault myth acceptance to defend their political identities in the #MeToo era.

Ethnic identity, religiousness, and drinking among African Americans: what's the connection?

This study tested a theoretical model explaining how ethnic identity and religiousness might be related to alcohol use among African Americans. One hundred seventy-three African American undergraduates at a large, public, Southeastern historically black university completed the study. Findings indicate that although religiousness accounted for 31% of the relationship between ethnic identity and alcohol use, whether mediation existed depended on which dimensions of ethnic identity, religiousness, and alcohol use were examined.