Testing bipolarity.

Many psychological dimensions seem bipolar (e.g., happy-sad, optimism-pessimism, and introversion-extraversion).

The Role of Wellness Climate in Small Business Health Promotion and Employee Wellbeing.

Wellness involves physical, emotional, behavioral, social, and spiritual dimensions. A climate for wellness exists at both the psychological and organizational levels, consisting of individual and shared perceptions of policies, structures, and managerial behavior that support or promote employee wellbeing. This study explored the associations between psychological and organizational wellness climate and the effectiveness of a team health promotion training on employees' perceived physical and mental wellbeing and substance use.

A Brief Measure of Organizational Wellness Climate: Initial Validation and Focus on Small Businesses and Substance Misuse.

Objective: Organizations with fewer than 100 employees comprise most businesses in the United States. Since small businesses lack comparable resources, they may benefit from a simple valid tool for broadly assessing positive wellness climate, especially because climate contributes to employee wellbeing.

Methods: Using an ethnically and occupationally diverse sample of 45 businesses (n = 1512), the current study developed and tested a brief self-report measure of organizational wellness climate.

Predictors of Health-related Quality of Life and Psychological Adjustment in Children and Adolescents With Congenital Melanocytic Nevi: Analysis of Parent Reports.

Objectives This cross-sectional study assessed health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and psychological adjustment in children and adolescents affected by congenital melanocytic nevi (CMN) and identified potential predictors of adjustment. Methods Participants were recruited worldwide with the help of patient organizations. Data were obtained from parents of 235 children affected by CMN, aged between 1 month and 18 years (M = 6.

Longitudinal Evaluation of a Parent and School Team-Mediated Workshop Intervention for Reducing Challenging Behaviours in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Children with autism spectrum disorder often develop persistent challenging behaviours. A previous study in this journal (Reynolds et al. 2011) reported effective implementation of strategies immediately following involvement in a comprehensive positive behaviour support workshop for parents/school personnel.

Social communication features in children following moderate to severe acquired brain injury: a cross-sectional pilot study.

We compared the social communication deficits of children with moderate to severe acquired brain injury or autism spectrum disorder, while accounting for the role of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms. Parents of 20 children aged 6 to 10 years (10 acquired brain injury; 10 autism spectrum disorder) completed the Social Communication Questionnaire, and Conners 3 Parent Short. A multivariate analysis of covariance revealed significant differences between groups in Social Communication Questionnaire restricted repetitive behavior scores, but not reciprocal social interaction or social communication.

A cluster randomized trial of alcohol prevention in small businesses: a cascade model of help seeking and risk reduction.

Purpose: The current study adapted two workplace substance abuse prevention programs and tested a conceptual model of workplace training effects on help seeking and alcohol consumption.

Design: Questionnaires were collected 1 month before, 1 month after, and 6 months within a cluster randomized field experiment.

Setting: Texas small businesses in construction, transportation, and service industries.

Training care teams of children with autism spectrum disorders in positive behaviour support: an innovative approach.

As part of a team, the authors developed a workshop to help parents and teams address the behavioural needs of children with autism using a positive behaviour support (PBS) approach. Teams received comprehensive training in PBS and completed weekly homework assignments. Measures of participant satisfaction, parent satisfaction and efficacy and child behaviour suggested this training as an effective intervention for these teams.

Acute sphenoid sinusitis induced blindness: a case report.

Background: Acute, isolated sphenoid sinusitis is a rare but potentially devastating clinical entity. Missing this diagnosis can lead to permanent vision loss due to injury of the optic nerve. Patients may present with preseptal inflammation, lid edema, chemosis, or ophthalmoplegia.

Psychosocial correlates of the perceived stigma of problem drinking in the workplace.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate a questionnaire assessment of the perceived stigma of problem drinking that was designed for use in workplace substance abuse prevention research. Municipal employees from a mid-sized city (n = 315) and a large-sized city (n = 535) completed questionnaire measures of perceived coworker stigmatization of problem drinking, drinking levels, substance-use policy attitudes, workgroup stress and interdependence, alcohol-tolerance norms, and demographic variables. Inter-item correlation coefficients showed that the measure of the stigma of problem drinking had good internal consistency reliability (.

Team awareness, problem drinking, and drinking climate: workplace social health promotion in a policy context.

Purpose: (1) To determine the effectiveness of classroom health promotion/prevention training designed to improve work climate and alcohol outcomes; (2) to assess whether such training contributes to improvements in problem drinking beyond standard workplace alcohol policies.

Design: A cross-sectional survey assessed employee problem drinking across three time periods. This was followed by a prevention intervention study; work groups were randomly assigned to an 8-hour training course in workplace social health promotion (Team Awareness), a 4-hour informational training course, or a control group.

A longitudinal, controlled study of patient complaints following treated mild traumatic brain injury.

This study provided 3-month follow-up data to a previous paper that compared symptom complaints of patients with mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) with those of non-injured control participants within 1 month of injury. The 110 MTBI patients and 118 control participants were group-matched on age, gender, education level, and socioeconomic status. As a group, MTBI patients no longer endorsed significantly more symptoms (M = 14.

Patient complaints within 1 month of mild traumatic brain injury: a controlled study.

Symptom complaints of 118 patients with mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI), within 1 month postinjury, were compared with those of 118 control participants without a MTBI. The MTBI and control subjects were group-matched on age, gender, socioeconomic status (SES), and education status. Differences in symptom endorsements and severity ratings were found between the groups, with 16 of the 43 queried symptoms endorsed significantly more often (Bonferroni-corrected P<.

A longitudinal study of compensation-seeking and return to work in a treated mild traumatic brain injury sample.

Objective: In patients with mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI), to assess: (1) changes in financial compensation-seeking status over time and (2) the relationship between compensation-seeking and return to work.

Design: Longitudinal evaluation of financial compensation-seeking status (i.e.

Levels of substance use and willingness to use the Employee Assistance Program.

Individuals with drinking and drug problems may become particularly reluctant to seek help. To remove barriers to services, more needs to be understood about factors that influence help-seeking decisions. It was hypothesized that certain social psychological influences (attitudes, group cohesion, trust in management) might buffer a reluctance to use services provided by an external Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

A longitudinal study of the relationship between financial compensation and symptoms after treated mild traumatic brain injury.

Demographic, injury-related, and symptom variables at intake, 3 months, and 12 months postinjury were compared between 50 treated adults with mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) who were not seeking or receiving financial compensation at any time and 18 who were at each time. Compensation seekers/receivers reported symptom incidence and severity as approximately 1 SD higher at each time. The level of difference between the groups did not significantly differ across time.