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J Child Sex Abus
February 2024
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.
Sexual assault crisis hotlines provide crucial support for survivors. Though some hotline users engage in inappropriate conduct (e.g.
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BMJ Glob Health
September 2017
Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Freetown, Sierra Leone.
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- * The system continued after the outbreak under a mandatory reporting policy, with nearly 350,000 calls made between September 2014 and December 2016, and call volumes dropped as the Ebola situation improved.
- * The analysis suggests potential for the system to improve long-term death reporting and public health surveillance, emphasizing the need for a routine social mobilization effort to boost its usage.
Healthy phoning: Papua New Guinea's first ever health call centre.
Australas Psychiatry
December 2015
Manager, Policy, Planning and Monitoring, Western Highlands Provincial Health Authority, Papua New Guinea.
Objective: The paper reports on the establishment of Papua New Guinea's first ever health call centre.
Method: Details of the phone calls received during the first nine weeks of the call centre's operation are presented.
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Caller characteristics, call contents, and types of assistance provided by caller sex and age group in a Canadian Inuit crisis line in Nunavut, 1991-2001.
Suicide Life Threat Behav
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Department of Psychology, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.
Analysis of calls made to a northern Canadian Inuit crisis line in the territory of Nunavut between 1991 and 2001 revealed that the majority of users were adult females who called to discuss problems primarily related to relationships and loneliness/boredom. Younger callers tended to make prank calls. The volunteer staff used mostly empathetic listening and suggestions.
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Cyberpsychol Behav Soc Netw
May 2011
Department of Psychology, University of Florence, Via da San Salvi 12, Florence, Italy.
In relation to a sample of 1,092 Italian adolescents (50.9% females), the present study aims to: (a) analyze the most parsimonious structure of the cyberbullying and cybervictimization construct in male and female Italian adolescents through confirmatory factor analysis; and (b) analyze the severity and the discrimination parameters of each act using the item response theory. Results showed that the structure of the cyberbullying scale for perpetrated and received behaviors in both genders could best be represented by a monodimensional model where each item lies on a continuum of severity of aggressive acts.
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