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   News Highlights

• The WVU Injury Control Research Center presented its 2012-2013 awards during a ceremony at Health Sciences on May 17. Jeffrey Coben, MD, ICRC director and interim dean, WVU School of Public Health, presented the awards. Kelly Gurka, MPH, PhD, the ICRC's assistant director for Education and Training, also spoke at the ceremony. Earning certificates for completion of the concentration of Injury Prevention and Control were Clayton Allison, Lindsay Beery and Miheret Yitayew. Sarra Nazem was the recipient of the Student Travel Award and Student Research Award. Ruth Kershner earned the Faculty Teaching Award. The Student Travel Award was established to recognize a graduate student who is traveling to a national conference to present his or her research related to injury and/or violence prevention and control. The recipient is reimbursed up to $500 to cover travel costs. The Outstanding Student Research Award was established to recognize excellence in scholastic activity, academic performance and overall achievement in research in any area of injury and/or violence prevention and control. The recipient receives a one-year paid membership to a professional injury-related organization of their choice. The Faculty Teaching Award was established to recognize an ICRC faculty member who had demonstrated excellence in teaching and/or mentoring relating to injury and violence prevention. To see a page of photos from the event, click here.

• May 2, 2013 Public Health Grand Rounds--The NH Gun Shop Project: Working with Gun Owners to Reduce Suicide, presented by Mary G. Vriniotis--was recorded, and is now available available for replay.  To view this recored Webcast, click here.  We extend our apologies for previously posting a link that did not work.

• The WVU Injury Control Research Center has posted a report to this Website examining opioid overdose prevention in West Virginia and other states in Central Appalachia. The report--Opioid overdose prevention programs with take-home naloxone in West Virginia and other Central Appalachian states--is based upon a review of the literature on overdose prevention programs featuring naloxone, an antidote used to reverse opioid overdoses. The report explores the potential translation of programs that have effectively reversed heroin overdoses in urban centers, to largely rural areas in Central Appalachia where high rates of prescription painkiller overdoses are occurring. View or download the report here: http://www.hsc.wvu.edu/icrc/Pages/Publications/Other-Publications/Injury-Prevention-Topic-Syntheses/Opioid-Overdose-Prevention-with-Naloxone

• Dr. Kimberly Rauscher, Assistant Professor in the WVU School of Public Health, and a faculty affiliate of the WVU Injury Control Research Center, is lead author on a recent study that found that over half of the deaths among young workers (aged 11 to 17 years old) in North Carolina during the years 1990-2008 resulted from employers violating federal child labor laws.  To see the WVU Health Sciences Center press release, click here.  To view the article abstract on the publisher's Website, click here.

Recent Publications

• Awan S, Nasrullah M. Use of Better Designed Hand Knotting Carpet Looms and Workplace Interventions to Improve Working Conditions of Adult Carpet Weavers and to Reduce Hazardous Child Labor in Carpet Weaving in Pakistan. Work. 44:95-103.

• Bell JL, Collins JW, Tiesman H, Ridenour M, Konda S, Wolf L, Evanoff B.(2013) Slip, Trip, and Fall Injuries to Nursing Care Facility Workers. In Press, American Association of Occupational Health Nurses Journal.

• Blüml V, Regier MD, Hlavin G, Rockett IRH, König F, Vyssoki B, Bschor T, Kapusta ND. Lithium in the public water supply and suicide mortality in Texas. Journal of Psychiatric Research.

• Buckley, H., Tonmyr, L., Lewig, K., & Jack S. (2013). Factors influencing uptake of research evidence in child welfare: A synthesis of findings from Australia, Canada and Ireland. Child Abuse Review.      

• Catallo C, Jack S, Ciliska D, MacMillan HL. (2013) Mixing a Grounded Theory Approach With a Randomized Controlled Trial Related to Intimate Partner Violence: What Challenges Arise for Mixed Methods Research? Nursing Research and Practice.

• Coben JH and Zhu M. (2013). Keeping an eye on distracted driving.  JAMA. 309(9): 877-878. PMID: 23462782.

• Conner KR, Bohnert AS, McCarthy JF, Valenstein M, Bossarte RM, Ignacio R, Lu N, Ilgen MA. Mental health comorbidity and suicide among 2.96 million men receiving care in the Veterans Health Administration System. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 2013;122(1):256-263. DOI: 10.1037/a0030163.

• Cross KM, Gurka KK, Saliba S, Conaway M, Hertel J. (2013). Comparison of hamstring strain injury rates between male and female intercollegiate soccer athletes. Am J Sports Med. PMID: 23408592.

• De Leo D, Too LS, Kolves K, Milner A, Ide N. Has the suicide rate risen with the 2011 Queensland floods? Journal of Loss and Trauma. 2013;18(2): 170-178. DOI: 10.1080/15325024.2012.684581.

• De Leo D, Draper B, Snowdon J, Kolves K. (2013). Suicides in older adults: A case-control psychological autopsy study in Australia. Journal of Psychiatric Research.

• Goldstein AL, Henriksen CA, Davidov DM, Kimber M, Pitre NY, Afifi TO. Childhood Maltreatment, Alcohol Use Disorders, and Treatment Utilization in a National Sample of Emerging Adults. J Stud Alcohol Drugs. 2013;74:185-194.

• Lipscomb HJ, Nolan J,  Patterson D, Sticca V, Myers DJ. (2013).  Safety, incentives, and the reporting of work-related injuries among union carpenters: “You’re pretty much screwed if you get hurt at work.”  American Journal of Industrial Medicine.56(4):389-99. PMID: 23109103DOI: 10.1002/ajim.22128.

• MacMillan HL, Tanaka M, Duku E, Vaillancourt T, Boyle MH. Child physical and sexual abuse in a community sample of young adults: Results from the Ontario Child Health Study.Child Abuse and Neglect 2013;37:14-21. PMID: 23290623.    

• Matthews MR, Zullig KJ. (2013). Evaluating the performance of a short loneliness scale among college students. Journal of College Student Development. 54(1):105-109.

• Nadorff MR, Fiske A, Sperry JA, Petts R, Gregg JJ. (2013). Insomnia Symptoms, Nightmares and Suicidal Ideation in Older Adults. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences. 68:145-152.

• Ning X, Guo G.D. Assessing spinal loading using the kinect depth sensor: a feasibility study. The IEEE Sensors Journal.

• O’dwyer St, Moyle W, Zimmer-Gembeck M, De Leo D. Suicidal ideation in family carers of people with dementia: a pilot study. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.