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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/7651045/) Lower subjective social status is associated with increased adiposity and self-reported eating in the absence of hunger due to negative affect among children reporting teasing distress
May 22nd 2024, 15:44

Abstract
Objectives
Low social standing and teasing are independently associated with increased body mass index (BMI) and overeating in children. However, children with low social status may be vulnerable to teasing.
Methods
We tested the statistical interaction of subjective social status (SSS) and subjective socioeconomic status (SSES) and teasing distress on BMI, fat mass index (FMI), and eating in the absence of hunger (EAH) in children (Mage = 13.09 years, SD = 2.50 years; 27.8% overweight/obese). Multiple linear regressions identified the main effects of self-reported SSS (compared to peers in school), distress due to teasing, and their interaction on BMI (n = 115), FMI (n = 114), and child- (n = 100) and parent-reported (n = 97) EAH.
Results
Teasing distress was associated with greater BMI, FMI, and child-reported EAH due to negative affect (a subscale of EAH) and total EAH scores. There were no associations of SSS with these outcomes. However, there was an interaction between SSS and teasing distress for BMI, FMI, and EAH from negative affect such that lower SSS was associated with higher BMI, FMI, and EAH from negative affect in the presence of teasing distress. However, there were no main effects or interactions (with teasing distress) of SSES on the outcomes.
Conclusions
These findings suggest that the relationship between lower SSS and increased adiposity and overeating behaviors may be exacerbated by other threats to social standing, such as teasing. Children exposed to multiple social threats may be more susceptible to eating beyond physiological need and obesity than those who experience a single form of perceived social disadvantage.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/open-access-journal-articles/prevalence-of-sexually-risky-behaviors-among-mexican-medical-students/) Prevalence of sexually risky behaviors among Mexican medical students
May 22nd 2024, 14:54

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/news/1708410/) Harm reduction is about science, compassion, Nurses Assoc. says
May 22nd 2024, 14:51

Graffiti on the legal graffiti wall in downtown Sudbury raised the issue of the imminent closure of The Spot supervised consumption site due to a lack of funding. The site closed at the end of March due to lack of funding. The Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario held a press conference May 10 to highlight their concerns about drug poisonings and the closure of supervised consumption services. 
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/law0000422/) Evaluating the effectiveness of a 5-day training on science-based methods of interrogation with U.S. federal, state, and local law enforcement investigators.
May 22nd 2024, 14:42

Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, Vol 30(2), May 2024, 105-120; doi:10.1037/law0000422
As accusatorial approaches to interrogation in the United States have increasingly come under scrutiny, interest in science-based methods of interviewing and interrogation has risen. The purpose of the current study was to assess the effectiveness of a 5-day science-based interrogation course delivered by the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group to U.S. federal, local, and state law enforcement investigators. Core aspects of the training included the use of productive questions, developing interrogator–suspect rapport, and conducting a cognitive interview. Ninety investigators who participated in the training submitted pre- and posttraining recordings of real-world suspect interviews. As hypothesized, investigators increased their use of science-based approaches after training and decreased their use of unproductive questions. Training did not influence how frequently they employed customary accusatorial techniques. Using a path model analysis, we also explored the relationships between use of science-based techniques and accusatorial approaches on the key outcome variables of cooperation, information disclosure by the suspect, and confession. We found positive indirect effects of training on cooperation and information disclosure via the use of science-based approaches. Moreover, science-based approaches were positively associated with increased cooperation and information disclosure and, indirectly, confession rates. In contrast, accusatorial approaches were associated with increased use of suspect counter-interrogation strategies and decreased cooperation and information gain. Implications for future training programs are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/law0000410/) Getting traction on positive youth justice: Prosocial identity as a promising target for intervention.
May 22nd 2024, 14:41

Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, Vol 30(2), May 2024, 132-148; doi:10.1037/law0000410
The positive youth justice (PYJ) paradigm emphasizes building youths’ strengths and prosocial attributes to promote healthy development and desistance from antisocial behavior. Despite broad support for PYJ, direct application of the model to juvenile justice interventions has been limited by its multitude of components and global targets. In this article, we chart an innovative pathway from theory to intervention that centers on promoting prosocial identity, or the extent to which young people view themselves as prosocial. We synthesize theory and evidence from developmental science and criminology to demonstrate that—with individual effort and environmental support—a youth’s identity can be shifted in the prosocial direction to promote desistance from antisocial behavior. Our intervention framework specifies three targets for change: content of the future possible self (promoting hope for a future prosocial self, balanced by fear of a future antisocial self), prosocial identity prominence (importance to the self), and prosocial identity validation (confidence that the self can be achieved). To realize the promise of this framework, researchers and practitioners can build consensus on measures of prosocial identity, assess the extent to which identity changes in response to existing strength-based services, and further establish the protective utility of prosocial identity. Interventions that directly target identity content, prominence, or validation should also be tested for their impact on antisocial behavior. When combined with relevant policy levers, we expect this identity-based approach to add value to existing services. Understanding that shifts in identity are both possible and matter, can help chart new pathways for promoting positive youth development. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/qup0000269/) Black girls don’t cry? Mental health, gender, and violence on the racialized periphery.
May 22nd 2024, 13:42

Qualitative Psychology, Vol 11(1), Feb 2024, 5-24; doi:10.1037/qup0000269
In recent years, there has been an increase in mental health struggles among Black girls, with concurrent increases in interpersonal violence in this group. However, there has been limited research into the structural, environmental, and psychosocial risk factors associated with these increases. A lack of understanding of these dynamics has left a gap in the implementation of targeted mental health and violence prevention/mitigation strategies for this sociomedically vulnerable population. Using semistructured interviews with staff at five high schools in the metropolitan Chicago area (n = 32), including teachers (n = 14), administrators (n = 9), and security officials (n = 9), we assessed perspectives on the mental health profiles and violence involvement of Black teen girls using abductive analysis and constant comparative methods. Respondents consistently indicated that violence was either more frequent among Black girls or felt more intractable, relative to (Black) males or other non-Black female students. Primary risk factors discussed included Black girls’ recurrent exposure to neighborhood deprivation and limited psychosocial and institutional support. Black girls who perpetrate or are victims of violence face complex identity formation challenges that are amplified by mental health challenges resulting from broader racial and gendered structures. School and community-based interventions must consider the intersectional complexities that entrench mental illness and violence in this population as a clustered co-occurring phenomenon, focusing on structural and in-school supports and adult stakeholder trainings around implicit bias and cultural humility. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/7645824/) Implementation remains the biggest challenge to the effective use of PROMs and PREMs, so what can we do about it?
May 22nd 2024, 13:41

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/7642687/) Bayesian Quantile Regression Models for Complex Survey Data Under Informative Sampling
May 22nd 2024, 12:47

Abstract
The interest in considering the relation among random variables in quantiles instead of the mean has emerged in various fields, and data collected from complex survey designs are of fundamental importance to different areas. Despite the extensive literature on survey data analysis and quantile regression models, research papers exploring quantile regression estimation accounting for an informative design have primarily been restricted to a frequentist framework. In this paper, we introduce different Bayesian methods relying on the survey-weighted estimator and the estimating equations. A model-based simulation study evaluates the proposed methods compared to alternative approaches and a naïve model fitting ignoring the informative sampling design under different scenarios. In addition, we illustrate and conduct a prior sensitivity analysis in a design-based simulation study that uses data from Prova Brasil 2011.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/monographs-edited-collections/childrens-voices-family-disputes-and-child-inclusive-mediation-the-right-to-be-heard/) Children’s Voices, Family Disputes and Child-Inclusive Mediation: The Right to Be Heard
May 22nd 2024, 12:32

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/grey-literature/supercharging-research-harnessing-artificial-intelligence-to-meet-global-challenges/) Supercharging Research:  Harnessing Artificial Intelligence  to Meet Global Challenges
May 22nd 2024, 12:28

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/7639004/) A New Measure of U.S. Public Agency Policy Discretion
May 22nd 2024, 10:43

Abstract
The U.S. bureaucracy routinely issues major public policy decisions that affect Americans’ lives. Government agency leaders make those decisions based on a subjective understanding of their agency’s available policy discretion. Over time, discretion has become a prominent theoretical construct in the bureaucratic politics and public administration literatures, but it is rarely measured directly. In this article, we create a new measure of agency policy discretion. We draw on research suggesting that discretion is derived from the bureaucracy’s key political principals: the elected executive, legislators, and interest groups. We use data from the American State Administrators Project and trigonometry to calculate the discretion area scores for 8,955 state agencies between 1978 and 2018. We then evaluate the measure through a series of construct validation assessments. The article offers an innovative and generalizable way to operationalize discretion that will advance future scholarship in organizational behavior, public administration, and bureaucratic decision-making.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/guidelines-plus/financially-motivated-sexual-extortion-an-alert-for-education-settings/) Financially motivated sexual extortion: an alert for education settings
May 22nd 2024, 10:29

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/7655846/) Screening for diabetes distress and depression in routine clinical care for youth with type 1 diabetes
May 22nd 2024, 10:23

Abstract
Objective
The purpose of this study is to examine diabetes distress as a potential mediator of the relationship between depression symptoms and diabetes outcomes, including hemoglobin A1c (hemoglobin A1c [HbA1c]) and diabetes management behaviors in a clinical sample of adolescents and young adults.
Methods
In a pediatric diabetes clinic, 716 youth (ages 12–21 years) completed measures of diabetes distress (Problem Areas in Diabetes-Teen [PAID-T]), a single-item of diabetes distress, and depression (Patient Health Questionnaire [PHQ-9]) as part of standard care. Electronic health records were extracted for the “Six Habits” and glycemic management (HbA1c).
Results
Overall, 3.6% (n = 26) of adolescents had clinically elevated diabetes distress and depression symptoms, 5.0% had diabetes distress alone, 8.7% had depression symptoms alone, and 82.7% had neither clinical elevation of diabetes distress nor depression symptoms. Results of mediation analysis demonstrated diabetes distress (both full and single-item measures) fully mediated the relationship between depression symptoms and HbA1c (p < .001). Also, mediation analysis results showcase incomplete mediation of the effect of the Six Habits score on HbA1c appears by PAID-T Diabetes Distress.
Conclusions
In a clinical sample of youth with type 1 diabetes, both depressive symptoms and diabetes distress are associated with HbA1c. Furthermore, diabetes distress fully mediates the relationship between depressive symptoms and HbA1c. As part of standard clinical care, the single-item screener for diabetes distress captured similar results as the full-scaled PAID-T. With limited clinical resources, providers may consider focusing assessment and interventions on the psychological factor of diabetes distress within the diabetes clinic to maximize the impact on glycemic control and consider the use of single-item screening to identify distress.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/podcasts/a-citrus-scented-cannabis-compound-reduces-anxiety-for-weed-users/) A Citrus-Scented Cannabis Compound Reduces Anxiety for Weed Users
May 22nd 2024, 10:21

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/meta-analyses-systematic-reviews/suicide-ideation-and-psychotropic-recreational-drug-use-by-adolescents-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis/) Suicide ideation and psychotropic recreational drug use by adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis
May 22nd 2024, 10:12

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/news/the-trump-hush-money-trial-reveals-a-seedy-world-shot-through-with-moral-rot/) The Trump hush-money trial reveals a seedy world shot through with moral rot
May 22nd 2024, 10:08

The trial has introduced us to a world of moral and ethical loathsomeness in which people use and abuse one another routinely. It’s Trump world…. This cast of characters – and there are many, many others like them in Trump world – are loathsome not only because they may have violated the law, but because they have contributed to a harsh society in which everyone is potentially bought or sold.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/video/what-social-work-students-need-to-know-about-licensure/) What Social Work Students Need to Know About Licensure
May 22nd 2024, 10:02

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/7645481/) Reflections on arts-based research methods in refugee mental health: The role of creative exercises in nurturing positive coping with trauma and exile
May 22nd 2024, 09:44

Abstract
In the field of refugee mental health research, scholars have emphasized the ethical obligation for research practices to benefit participants. They have proposed that research participation itself can promote positive coping in the aftermath of migration. In this article, we aim to advance the understanding of the benefits of arts-based research methods (ABRM) in how they may nurture participants’ positive coping during their experiences as research participants. To do so, we depart from the findings from three drama-based mental health interventions conducted with refugee and migrant young people resettled in Europe on the role creative processes might play in fostering coping. We develop a reflection on how ABRM may tap into these processes to strengthen refugees’ coping and well-being, ultimately supporting ethical research practices. In the final section, we discuss the value of integrating ABRM in refugee mental health research that embeds similar creative processes in their methodological repertoire.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/grey-literature/pressing-issues-around-contraception-access-following-the-repeal-of-roe-v-wade-proceedings-of-a-workshop-in-brief/) Pressing Issues Around Contraception Access Following the Repeal of Roe v. Wade Proceedings of a Workshop–in Brief
May 22nd 2024, 09:29

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/7649336/) The 2021 UNHCR-IE SOGI Global Roundtable on Protection and Solutions for LGBTIQ+ People in Forced Displacement: Toward a New Vision for LGBTIQ+ Refugee Protection
May 22nd 2024, 09:22

Abstract
This field reflection critically examines how emerging international norms concerning forcibly displaced people of diverse sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC) were negotiated during the 2021 UNHCR-IE SOGI Global Roundtable on Protection and Solutions for LGBTIQ+ People in Forced Displacement. I argue that the Roundtable was a crucial site of norm contestation on queer refugee intersectionality and inclusion within the global refugee policy regime, particularly among stakeholders grounded in two interconnected, mutually responsive policy ecosystems: (1) refugee rights and assistance and (2) LGBTIQ+ human rights. Through an intersectional queer feminist understanding of complex adaptive systems, I show how Roundtable stakeholders constructively challenged precepts of impartiality, neutrality, and a charity model of needs-based humanitarianism. Finally, I propose several ways to effectively innovate the international norms that will impact LGBTIQ+ refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced people, and stateless people in coming years.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/7648668/) The efficacy of propensity score matching for separating selection and measurement effects across different survey modes
May 22nd 2024, 08:47

Abstract
Effective evaluation of data quality between data collected in different modes is complicated by the confounding of selection and measurement effects. This study evaluates the utility of propensity score matching (PSM) as a method that has been proposed as a means of removing selection effects across surveys conducted in different modes. Our results show large differences in estimates for the same variables between parallel face-to-face and online surveys, even after matching on standard demographic variables. Moreover, discrepancies in estimates are still present after matching between surveys conducted in the same (online) mode, where differences in measurement properties can be ruled out a priori. Our findings suggest that PSM has substantial limitations as a method for separating measurement and selection differences across modes and should be used only with caution.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/open-access-journal-articles/wps-21195/) Five conceptual competences in psychiatry
May 22nd 2024, 08:36

World Psychiatry, Volume 23, Issue 2, Page 233-234, June 2024.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/news/food-research-action-center-condemns-snap-cuts-and-privatization-in-chairman-thompsons-farm-bill/) Food Research & Action Center Condemns SNAP Cuts and Privatization in Chairman Thompson’s Farm Bill
May 22nd 2024, 07:48

The Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2024: Discussion Draft (House Farm Bill) text released by House Agriculture Committee Chair G.T. Thompson (R-PA) poses a serious threat to the health and wellbeing of the more than 41.4 million people who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to put food on the table.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/7651046/) Teaching children pedestrian safety in virtual reality via smartphone: a noninferiority randomized clinical trial
May 22nd 2024, 07:44

Abstract
Objective
To evaluate whether child pedestrian safety training in a smartphone-based virtual reality (VR) environment is not inferior to training in a large, semi-immersive VR environment with demonstrated effectiveness.
Methods
Five hundred 7- and 8-year-old children participated; 479 were randomized to one of two conditions: Learning to cross streets in a smartphone-based VR or learning in a semi-immersive kiosk VR. The systems used identical virtual environments and scenarios. At baseline, children’s pedestrian skills were assessed in both VR systems and through a vehicle approach estimation task (judging speed/distance of oncoming traffic on monitor). Training in both conditions comprised at least six 30-min sessions in the randomly assigned VR platform and continued for up to 25 visits until adult-level proficiency was obtained. Following training and again 6 months later, children completed pedestrian safety assessments identical to baseline. Three outcomes were considered from assessments in each VR platform: Unsafe crossings (collisions plus close calls), time to contact (shortest time between child and oncoming simulated traffic), and missed opportunities (unselected safe opportunities to cross).
Results
Participants achieved adult-level street-crossing skill through VR training. Training in a smartphone-based VR system was generally not inferior to training in a large semi-immersive VR system. There were no adverse effects.
Conclusions
Seven- and 8-year-old children can learn pedestrian safety through VR-based training, including training in a smartphone-based VR system. Combined with recent meta-analytic results, the present findings support broad implementation and dissemination of child pedestrian safety training through VR, including smartphone-based VR systems.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/pspa0000386/) Intergroup processes and the happy face advantage: How social categories influence emotion categorization.
May 22nd 2024, 06:47

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol 126(3), Mar 2024, 390-412; doi:10.1037/pspa0000386
There is abundant evidence that emotion categorization is influenced by the social category membership of target faces, with target sex and target race modulating the ease with which perceivers can categorize happy and angry emotional expressions. However, theoretical interpretation of these findings is constrained by gender and race imbalances in both the participant samples and target faces typically used when demonstrating these effects (e.g., most participants have been White women and most Black targets have been men). Across seven experiments, the current research used gender-matched samples (Experiments 1a and 1b), gender- and racial identity-matched samples (Experiments 2a and 2b), and manipulations of social context (Experiments 3a, 3b, and 4) to establish whether emotion categorization is influenced by interactions between the social category membership of perceivers and target faces. Supporting this idea, we found the presence and size of the happy face advantage were influenced by interactions between perceivers and target social categories, with reliable happy face advantages in reaction times for ingroup targets but not necessarily for outgroup targets. White targets and female targets were the only categories associated with a reliable happy face advantage that was independent of perceiver category. The interactions between perceiver and target social category were eliminated when targets were blocked by social category (e.g., a block of all White female targets; Experiments 3a and 3b) and accentuated when targets were associated with additional category information (i.e., ingroup/outgroup nationality; Experiment 4). These findings support the possibility that contextually sensitive intergroup processes influence emotion categorization. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/7650997/) ‘Two heads are better than one.’ – exploring the experiences of Ghanaian communities on the role and effect of Patient-Public Engagement in Health System Improvement
May 22nd 2024, 06:46

Abstract
Patient and Public Participation (PPP) is key to improving health systems. Yet, studies have shown that PPP implementations across many countries have been largely tokenistic. Particularly, in Ghana, whilst PPP is prioritised in national health policies and legislation, there appears to be little research focused on understanding PPP’s role in health system improvement. The aim of this study, therefore, is to examine how PPP is working across the Ghanaian health system levels, as well as to understand the perspectives and experiences of participants on how PPP contributes to health system improvement. The qualitative study was undertaken in six communities in three districts in the Ashanti region of Ghana. Data were collected from semi-structured individual interviews. The selection of participants was purposive, based on their PPP-related roles. As a result, findings of this study may not reflect the experiences of others who are not directly involved in PPP initiatives. Thirty-five participants, mainly health service users and health professionals, were interviewed. Data were transcribed and analysed descriptively using Braun and Clarke’s 2006 thematic analysis approach. Overall, participants noted PPP implementation was largely limited at higher health system levels (i.e. national, regional and district levels), but was functioning at the community level. PPP also improved access to health services, responsiveness to patient needs, community-health worker relationships, health-seeking behaviours, empowered healthcare users, and improved health outcomes. The study, therefore, recommended the need to undertake PPP across all levels of the health system to maximise PPP’s role in health system improvement. Finally, the study suggested prioritising PPP, especially for resource-poor countries to complement government’s efforts in improving accessibility of healthcare services to many communities and also provide a more patient-centred healthcare system responsive to patients’ and public needs.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/tc-2023-058571v1/) ‘Stopping the start: support for proposed tobacco control policies – a population-based survey in Great Britain 2021-2023
May 22nd 2024, 06:29

Objectives
This study assessed public support for four proposed tobacco control policies in Great Britain: (1) Raising the sales age of tobacco by 1 year every year (Smokefree Generation); (2) Raising the sales age of tobacco from 18 years to 21 years; (3) Providing prescription e-cigarettes as smoking cessation aids to adults who smoke; (4) Restricting e-cigarette advertising to prevent youth uptake.
Design
Repeat cross-sectional population-based survey weighted to match the population of Great Britain.
Setting
The survey was conducted in England, Scotland and Wales in September 2021, October 2022 and October 2023.
Participants
6541 adults living in Great Britain.
Main outcome measures
Support for each policy and year and prevalence ratios (PRs) comparing support between years and subgroups.
Results
The most popular policy each year was restricting e-cigarette advertising (74%/79%/85%), followed by raising the sales age to 21 years (50%/58%/64%), providing prescription e-cigarettes (45%/44%/47%) and Smokefree Generation (34%/44%/49%). The largest increases were for policies about the age of sale (Smokefree Generation: 2021/2022 PR=1.28, 95% CI 1.18 to 1.40, 2022/2023 PR=1.12, 95% CI 1.04 to 1.20; raising the age to 21 years: 2021/2022 PR=1.16, 95% CI 1.09 to 1.23, 2022/2023 PR=1.11, 95% CI 1.05 to 1.17). Only 30% opposed Smokefree Generation in 2023 down from 41% in 2021.
Conclusions
Support for each policy increased each year, except for providing prescription e-cigarettes. Restricting e-cigarette advertising was the most popular policy, while support for age of sale policies, in particular for a Smokefree Generation, grew most.
Trial registration
The study protocol was published on the Open Science Framework (https://osf.io/46z2c/) prior to starting the analysis.

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/grey-literature/the-british-library-hack-is-a-warning-for-all-academic-libraries/) The British Library hack is a warning for all academic libraries
May 22nd 2024, 05:11

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/7655897/) Learning from Civil Society Actors in Turkey: Using Transitional Justice in an Ongoing Conflict
May 22nd 2024, 04:46

ABSTRACT∞
This article examines the role of civil society in the implementation of transitional justice in Turkey’s ongoing Kurdish conflict, which is characterized by historical state violence and a lack of official transitional justice processes. Drawing on 24 interviews, the research reveals the evolution of civil society engagement from its peak during the 2013–2015 peace process to its decline under increasing authoritarianism. The research argues that, despite challenges, civil society retains the potential to drive incremental change in the absence of formal transitional justice mechanisms. However, the authoritarian regime has significantly curtailed its capacity, creating a limited civic space for transitional justice. The article highlights the need for stronger links between civil society in Turkey and international transitional justice scholarship. Such collaboration could empower activists, enabling them to overcome challenges and increase their effectiveness. Turkey offers a unique case for transitional justice scholars and practitioners to learn from civil society actors committed to pursuing justice.
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May 22nd 2024, 04:28

Lankum performing at Gig For Gaza at the 3Arena in Dublin last year. 
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