Lento notes. AAOMS members comply
with rigorous continuing education requirements and submit to periodic office
examinations, ensuring the public that all office procedures and personnel
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CHI 2005 Conference, 2-7 April

The CHI 2005 conference features a six-day program including tutorials,
panels, papers, vendor exhibits, networking opportunities and keynote
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, Facial injuries caused by physical
assault can intensify existing mental health and social problems, a study of
indigent patients at an inner -city trauma center shows.
(Logo: http://www.D. Despite the group's relatively high service needs,
however, their service use was less than half that of the control. They also urge
oral and maxillofacial surgeons to probe for signs of psychosocial distress
and be prepared to refer patients to appropriate resources.
The Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery is the peer-reviewed journal
of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (AAOMS), the
professional organization representing more than 7,000 oral and maxillofacial
surgeons in the United States, supports its members' ability to practice their
specialty through education, research, and advocacy. Are your designs up to the
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Facial trauma patients, most of whom had been involved in interpersonal
violence, showed significantly higher rates of depression, anxiety, hostility
and phobic and obsessive-compulsive tendencies than a control group of
patients undergoing elective wisdom tooth surgery, according to the study of
adults treated for mandible (lower jaw) fractures between 1996 and 2001 at
King/Crew Medical Center, a hospital serving the socioeconomically
disadvantaged, predominantly minority populations of South-Central Los
Angeles.chi2005.

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The trauma group also reported a significantly higher incidence of current
or previous mental health and social problems, such as alcohol and drug use ,
problems with the law, unemployment, school suspensions, suicide attempts and
homelessness.

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The study points to the need for a more comprehensive , "case management"
approach to facial injury care that links patients with mental health and
social services while providing surgical treatment and follow-up, Dr.

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The vast majority of facial injuries resulted from physical violence
(82 percent), with the rest resulting from a fall or accident (14 percent) or
a motor vehicle accident (4 percent).

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, a
research associate with the VA Greater Los Angeles Health Care System at the
time of the study.

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According to the
study, published in the January 2005 issue of the Journal of Oral and
Maxillofacial Surgery, these problems often go untreated and may interfere
with recovery.

CHI conferences are sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery 's
Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI).

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Lento, who is currently an
assistant professor of psychology at the University of San Diego. The two groups
did not differ significantly in rates of high school graduation, employment,
marital status or ethnicity.

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Attendance is open to all with an
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The current study administered brief psychological and mental
health/social service needs assessments to 336 facial trauma patients and
119 non-trauma patients 10 days, 6 months and 12 months after treatment.

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At CHI 2005 you can:

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ROSEMONT , Ill. The trauma and non-trauma groups
consisted predominantly of African-American and Latino males .

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Although the intensity of some psychological symptoms, such as depression,
declined over time within the trauma group, patients continued to report
higher levels of mental health and social service needs than the control group
at all assessment intervals, notes principal author Jennifer Lento, Ph. We
welcome participants to experience the future directions of human-computer
interaction at CHI 2005," notes Carolyn Gale (Stanford Univeristy) and
Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson (Intuit), CHI 2005 Tutorial Co-Chairs. Approximately
2000 participants from over 40 countries will join to debate, discuss and
design the future of human-computer interaction from 2-7 April at the
Portland, Oregon Convention Center.

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Previous research has shown that the psychological symptoms following a
facial injury due to violence may be intrusive enough to meet the diagnostic
criteria for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and can impair social and
occupational functioning for extended periods, Dr.org) in Portland, Oregon, 2-7 April. The CHI 2005 Champion sponsors include: America Online,
Microsoft, OSTG, SAP AG, Tektronix and Yahoo! Inc.

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Today's highly mobile
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"These data indicate substantial, and largely unmet, mental health and
social service needs among vulnerable individuals presenting with facial
injury to inner-city trauma centers ," says Dr.

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newscom. One study
found PTSD symptoms in patients up to seven weeks following facial injury.
The authors recommend training for trauma care providers in administering
brief psychological assessments to facial trauma patients .