PTS (I Don't Use the

¶ … PTS (I don't use the D. because I do not believe it is a disorder) you chose. Many studies and research has been done and is currently ongoing to understand this problem. Many first responders and military members are seeking assistance for their symptoms. Studies like the one you chose for this assignment are just one of the examples. I see that the study you chose the sample is 300 officers from Brazil and that the female sample was taken our of the final report (9 of them).

Do you believe that there were only 9 females that were willing to participate in the study or just 9 chosen? If there was a higher number of female officers sampled do you believe it would have changed the hypothesis? Also, how do you believe the correlation between PTS in Brazil and the United States differs? Do you think such a study would/could be useful.

Thanks for the post, TB Response: I am not certain whether or not there were only 9 females willing to participate in the study or whether only 9 were chosen from a much larger number of potential females. I have no real knowledge of the Brazilian police system and their gender compositions. In the United States, police forces are more gender-mixed than they were in the past, but still continue to be predominantly male.

Certainly, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, I could see it being very difficult to find more than 9 female officers with PTSD in a select sample size. Clearly, in a modern U.S. police force, those numbers would be higher. I simply not certain how those numbers would be in Brazil. I do not know enough about PTSD in females to know if it would change the sample.

The studies I have seen that focus on gender-specific aspects of PTSD seem to focus on different causes of PTSD, such as rape for females, and maybe combat-trauma for males. Because of the different causes of trauma, I do not know if the different genders actually process trauma differently. My limited knowledge of Brazilian and American police departments makes it difficult for me to know whether there would be a correlation between PTSD in Brazil and the United States.

I have no idea whether Brazilian police officers are exposed to the same level of trauma as police officers in the U.S. More significantly, I have no idea how Brazilian police forces deal with traumatic incidents. As a result, I believe that such a study would be useful, but it would not explain any differences that might be found. Discuss the results of the hypothesis test. Comment on the choice of the test statistic. • Point out anything interesting about the study and explain why you found it interesting.

You may comment on the substance (what the researchers found) and/or the methods (how the researchers designed the study). I did my article on the chances of women in jail and community-based criminal justice settings, to get cervical cancer. Little is known about abnormal cervical cancer screening results of women who are behind bars. The test was conducted by using data from two cross-sectional surveys of women in jails and community corrections about their history of abnormal pap tests.

Univariate analyses (analysis of variance [ANOVA] and chi-square) and a binary logistic regression analysis were conducted to test associations between histories of abnormal Pap testing and factors known to be associated with cervical cancer. Women in jails and prisons are at high risk for cervical cancer, and cervical cancer is the most common type of cancer among female prisoners,"(Binswanger et al., 2011, p.2). Women behind bars have greater odds than the general population of having cervical cancer.

Pap testing (cervical cytology) is a way to detect precancerous and cancerous cervical lesions by identifying women who need further diagnosis and treatment. Few studies of cervical cancer or screening have included women in jails and prison. In this test they sampled 390 participants, 188 were in jail and 202 were in community supervision programs. The two surveys were identical, with the exception that the survey administered to the community custody sample had additional questions not used in the current analysis.

The self-administered surveys included demographic information (e.g., self-reported race), most frequent birth control used history of STIs and other gynecologic infections, number of sexual partners in the past 3 months, number of pregnancies, number of live births, tobacco use, and if they currently have a healthcare provider. The survey found that 40% of the participants did not have a healthcare provider or health insurance to be able to have a cervical cancer screening done prior to their.