Trickle down Registration: Exploring the Lived Experiences of Partners of Persons Registered as a Sexual Offender.

Accessing stigmatized persons for research purposes can be difficult, and accessing their is perhaps even more challenging. We present here our defining moments of recruiting and surveying partners of persons registered as sexual offenders for our research on courtesy stigma. The challenges and successes of our journey are described within the larger hypothesis that close relationships are an important source of social support associated with adjustment and well-being outcomes for people involved in the justice system as well as their families.

Prospective relationships between youth assets, negative life events, and binge drinking in a longitudinal cohort of the youth.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate whether individual, family, and community assets can 1) protect youth from binge drinking in the face of negative life events and 2) modify the relationship between negative life events and binge drinking.

Methods: Data from waves 2-5 of the Youth Asset Study were analyzed. Generalized estimating equations were used to assess the relationship between negative life events, assets, and binge drinking.

USING SINGLE-CASE DESIGNS TO EVALUATE COMPONENTS OF TRIBAL HOME-VISITATION PROGRAMS.

Single-case designs are typically used in classroom and clinical settings to assess the behavioral impacts of an intervention with an individual child. Using two illustrative case studies, this article describes the extension of this model to home-visitation programs serving tribal communities and examines the lessons learned throughout the process of adapting this approach. Our experience suggests that the benefits of using this design outweigh the associated challenges and allows researchers to expand the use of single-case designs to previously unexplored settings.

Blood pressure surges during office-based transurethral microwave therapy for the prostate.

Objective: To investigate the occurrence of adverse blood pressure (BP) events during transurethral microwave therapy (TUMT) for benign prostatic hyperplasia.

Patients And Methods: We conducted a retrospective study of the vital signs of 185 consecutive patients who received TUMT (via 6 devices) at 4 institutions from March 1, 2003, to September 18, 2005. Maximum change, percent change in systolic BP, diastolic BP, mean arterial pressures, heart rate, and oxygen saturation were evaluated.

Risk and protective factors predictive of sense of coherence during adolescence.

This brief report presents a study undertaken to better understand the factors that are related to sense of coherence (SOC) levels among youth. Middle school students (N = 1619) reported on risk and protective factors across ecological domains. Analyses revealed that social support, anger expression, family conflict and neighborhood cohesion were predictors of SOC for both males and females.

Familial functioning as a support system for adolescents' postdetention success.

Youths transitioning out of detention are particularly in need of support systems that can divert them from recidivism. This article examines the relationship between incarcerated youths' sense of their families' functioning and their perceived likelihood for postdetention success. Despite the control of background variables, results reveal that delinquents who indicated stronger familial functioning also reported a greater likelihood of future success.