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Letter: Suicide by veterinary surgeons
No full textDavid Bartram and David Baldwin comment: We are grateful for the opportunity to respond to Desmond Rice's comments on our hypothetical model to explain the risk of suicide in veterinary surgeons.A recent meta-analysis of 44 studies demonstrated that emotional intelligence (EI) is positively associated with mental health (Schutte and others 2007). Although the methodologies of the meta-analysis and the studies on which it is based do not provide evidence regarding causality, it may be that the better perception, understanding, and management of emotion of individuals with higher EI make it less likely that they will experience mental health problems.There is also a strong positive correlation between several dimensions of EI and academic achievement (for example, Parker and others 2004, Petrides and others 2004, Austin and others 2005), so it seems unlikely that the current veterinary undergraduate admissions procedure inevitably selects a high proportion of students with low EI. However, EI may have a place in veterinary education (Timmins 2006), both to improve the veterinary surgeon-client relationship and as a possible buffer against stress in the profession, and the subject is worthy of further research.A number of the 'human givens' to which Rice refers are measured in the standard psychometric instruments used in our recent cross-sectional study of mental health and wellbeing in the UK veterinary profession (Bartram and Baldwin 2007). The questionnaire was mailed to a random stratified sample of 3200 veterinary surgeons in the UK and a response rate of over 56 per cent was achieved. We are grateful to all those who responded. Data analysis is underway and it is anticipated that preliminary results will be available by the autumn
Veterinary surgeons and suicide: influences, opportunities and research directions
No full textVeterinary surgeons are at high risk of suicide, with a proportional mortality ratio approximately four times that of the general population and around twice that of other health care professions. It is uncertain whether this derives from the characteristics of individuals entering the profession, the nature of the work environment, or other factors known to influence suicide. in this article, David Bartram and David Baldwin present a hypothetical model to explain suicide risk in veterinary surgeons, and argue that research is required to validate the model and to inform the development of appropriate intervention
Hygiene, sanitation, and water: forgotten foundations of health.
No full textAs the first article in a four-part PLoS Medicine series on water and sanitation, Jamie Bartram and Sandy Cairncross argue that the massive burden of ill health associated with poor hygiene, sanitation, and water supply demands more attention from health professionals and policymakers
Doing less but getting more: Improving forced-choice measures with IRT.
No full textMultidimensional forced-choice (MFC) questionnaires typically show good validities and are resistant to impression management effects. However, they yield ipsative data, which distorts scale relationships and makes comparisons between people problematic. Depressed reliability estimates also led developers to create tests of potentially excessive length. We apply an IRT Preference Model to make more efficient use of information in existing MFC questionnaires. OPQ32i used for selection and assessment internationally is examined using this approach. The latent scores recovered from a much reduced number of MFC items are superior to the full test?s ipsative scores, and comparable to unbiased normative scores
Understanding depression - the 'black dog'
No full textThe veterinary profession is recognising that rates of depression, stress and suicide are particularly high among its members, and it is taking steps both to investigate this more fully and to offer support. Last month, for example, saw the launch of vetlife.org.uk, a website that highlights the support available from the established veterinary care organisations and from outside the profession. This article, aimed at those who may be troubled by feelings of depression, as well as their friends, colleagues and relatives, sets out to provide a better understanding of depression, and of what can be done to help
[Bartram Bros. Drawing Card, Sketch No. 6497]
No full textThis engine drawing card was created for Bartram Brothers, Class 8-16 D. Section N-8 D. Sketch 6497. Copy Spec. C-4113
Veterinary surgeons and suicide: a structured review of possible influences on increased risk.
No full textVeterinary surgeons are known to be at a higher risk of suicide compared with the general population. There has been much speculation regarding possible mechanisms underlying the increased suicide risk in the profession, but little empirical research. A computerised search of published literature on the suicide risk and influences on suicide among veterinarians, with comparison to the risk and influences in other occupational groups and in the general population, was used to develop a structured review. Veterinary surgeons have a proportional mortality ratio (PMR) for suicide approximately four times that of the general population and around twice that of other healthcare professions. A complex interaction of possible mechanisms may occur across the course of a veterinary career to increase the risk of suicide. Possible factors include the characteristics of individuals entering the profession, negative effects during undergraduate training, work-related stressors, ready access to and knowledge of means, stigma associated with mental illness, professional and social isolation, and alcohol or drug misuse (mainly prescription drugs to which the profession has ready access). Contextual effects such as attitudes to death and euthanasia, formed through the profession's routine involvement with euthanasia of companion animals and slaughter of farm animals, and suicide 'contagion' due to direct or indirect exposure to suicide of peers within this small profession are other possible influences
Beyond performance: productive and counterproductive workplace behaviours.Simposio al XIIIth European Congress of Work and Organisational Psychology, Sustainable work: Promoting Human and Organisational Vitality, Stockholm. Pubbl. in The XIIIth European Congress of Work and Organisational Psychology, Sustainable work: Promoting Human and Organisational Vitality. Stockholm, May 9-12 2007
No full textRecto verso: Redefining the sketchbook
No full textBringing together a broad range of contributors including art, architecture, and design academic theorists and historians, in addition to practicing artists, architects, and designers, this volume explores the place of the sketchbook in contemporary art and architecture. Drawing upon a diverse range of theories, practices, and reflections common to the contemporary conceptualisation of the sketchbook and its associated environments, it offers a dialogue in which the sketchbook can be understood as a pivotal working tool that contributes to the creative process and the formulation and production of visual ideas. Along with exploring the theoretical, philosophical, psychological, and curatorial implications of the sketchbook, the book addresses emergent digital practices by way of examining contemporary developments in sketchbook productions and pedagogical applications. Consequently, these more recent developments question the validity of the sketchbook as both an instrument of practice and creativity, and as an educational device. International in scope, it not only explores European intellectual and artistic traditions, but also intercultural and cross-cultural perspectives, including reviews of practices in Chinese artworks or Islamic calligraphy, and situational contexts that deal with historical examples, such as Roman art, or modern practices in geographical-cultural regions like Pakistan. © Angela Bartram, Nader El-Bizri and Douglas Gittens 2014. All rights reserved
Footprints Across the South: Bartram\u27s Trail Revisited
No full textOver the past three decades, a tireless group of volunteers, funded by donations and small grants, has laid out the “Bartram Trail.” Drawn on maps, marked by metal signs beside highways and city streets and by blazes on trees, the trail follows the overall pathway of the eighteenth-century naturalist. Francis Harper’s edition of Bartram’s Travels led the way, identifying most of Bartram’s sites and species. More recently, Brad Sanders has given detailed directions to Bartram’s locations and present-day sites along the trail. Charles D. Spornick, Alan R. Cattier, and Robert J. Greene have published a guide for outdoor enthusiasts and history buffs that follows Bartram’s path. Others have documented the plants and animals that Bartram identified. The professional and avocational botanists are more qualified than I to discuss the whereabouts of these species and to describe them in modern science’s terms.
This book is a view of the early twenty-first-century landscapes along Bartram’s trail. I have met the people who live there, seen and smelled the industries that have sunk their steel and concrete roots into the soil of his venues. This is the story of the America that grew around the Bartram Trail.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/ksupresslegacy/1012/thumbnail.jp
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