In this week's report of influenza activity on campuses in the College Health Surveillance Network, 11 of 14 schools report 1 or more influenza-like illness cases. Two school in the Northeast and one in the Southern regions had a percentage of cases that crossed the threshold of a CDC defined outbreak. At least one school in each region had a reported case. The [...]
In the week 5 report of influenza activity on campuses in the College Health Surveillance Network, 10 of 14 schools report 1 or more influenza-like illness cases. One school in the Midwestern region had a percentage of cases that crossed the threshold of a CDC defined outbreak. At least one school in each region had a reported case. The graphic above shows ILI visits, both [...]
Squeglia, L. M., Jacobus, J., & Tapert, S. F. (2014). The effect of alcohol use on human adolescent brain structures and systems. Handbook of clinical neurology, 125, 501. Abstract: This article reviews the neurocognitive and neuroimaging literatureregarding the effect of alcohol use on human adolescent brain structure and function. Adolescents who engage in heavy alcohol use, even at [...]
In the fourth weekly report of influenza activity on campuses in the College Health Surveillance Network, 10 of 15 schools report 1 or more influenza-like illness cases. One school in the Southern region has crossed the threshold of a CDC defined outbreak. At least one school in each region had a reported case. The graphic above shows ILI visits, both as an absolute [...]
An Intriguing Dissertation by Gerard Hastings at the University of Stirling Abstract There has been substantial scientific debate about the impact of alcohol marketing on consumption. Relying mainly on econometric studies, the alcohol industry has traditionally maintained that alcohol marketing does not influence consumption, but is merely limited to brand level effects. Public health advocates, [...]
Nearly 90% of Virginia Commonwealth University students read Stall Seat Journals - posters full of cool graphics and timely health information that get taped to bathroom stall doors every month. Read more about the 10th anniversary of VCU's program!
Hard to believe that 2014 is almost over, and 2015 journals are already available online! Check out these new articles from PubMed and other databases. Barnett, N. P., Clerkin, E. M., Wood, M., Monti, P. M., Tevyaw, T. O. L., Corriveau, D., ... & Kahler, C. W. (2014). Description and predictors of positive and negative [...]
In the third weekly report of influenza activity on campuses in the College Health Surveillance Network, 10 of 14 schools report 1 or more influenza-like illness cases. No school or region has crossed the threshold of a CDC defined outbreak. At least one school in each region had a reported case. The images above include the weekly graph showing ILI visits, [...]
NSNI has received a number of anecdotal reports of college student deaths this fall. These tragedies have resulted in inquiries from the press regarding NSNI’s mortality study presented at the American Public Health Association Meeting in November 2011, and its subsequent publication in the Journal of College Student Psychotherapy in January 2013. Many of the [...]
This is a small study (n=46 college students) that certainly needs replication on a larger scale, with a more demographically diverse sample, before being taken as definitive. However, the finding that "... habit (emphasis added) was a significant predictor of both amount and proportion of alcohol consumed...[and] was shown to effectively discriminate between..." intention and behavior is [...]