According to a recent survey, in an attempt to take charge of at least the context of their communications online, kids create multiple social media accounts, unknown to the parents, with varying privacy settings.
With increased incidence and visibility of these gruesome crimes, there is an urgent need to address this problem at multiple levels of Indian society, including professional, familial and social settings.
Adults with ADHD experience significant impairment [ 1, 3] in multiple domains of daily living, including the workplace, home, and various social settings [ 3, 4].
The few studies conducted in sub-Saharan Africa (mostly, in well-defined social settings) have found significant associations between alcohol use and multiple concurrent sexual partnerships and inconsistent condom use with casual partners and sex workers [ 12- 14].
This suggests that the social vulnerability index has potentially wide applicability: the constituent variables can differ in different settings as long as the basic tenant of including multiple social factors relating to important broad domains is met.
Collected information included duration and intensity of exposure from multiple sources: inside home (parents, spouses, roommates and any other co-resident) and outside homes (in vehicles, social settings, and workplace).
Central to the settings approach is the socio-ecological framework (Sallis and Owen, 2002) that emphasises the interaction of multiple social and environmental influences on an individual's behaviour.
"I love social settings and having people over," she said.
"It's more serene than other social settings".
