Robert Bor
Biographic Data
| ID | 1358833 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Bor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Bor |
| SIGNATURE | BOR R |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Royal Free Hospital |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Assessment policy of post-traumatic stress disorder in aviation and its practical application using turbulence-triggered trauma as an example
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently provided detailed instructions on how Aviation Medical Examiners (AMEs) should assess and evaluate pilots for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The European, Australian and International Civil Aviation Organization guidelines for the assessment of PTSD in aviation are general guidelines and do not address the unique and specific circumstances of a flight crew per se . The starting point…
Promoting Flight Crew Mental Health Requires International Guidance for Down-Route Quarantine Circumstances
OPINION article Front. Public Health, 04 March 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.854262
Safety of Health Care Workers in a War Zone—A European Issue
OPINION article Front. Public Health, 30 March 2022Sec. Occupational Health and Safety https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.886394
Self-Harm in Aviation Medicine—A Complex Challenge During a Pandemic
OPINION article Front. Public Health, 02 August 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.681618
Black Swan Pandemic and the Risk of Pilot Suicide
The medical risks to pilots, whether to their physical or mental health, are clearly theoretically raised during the COVID-19 pandemic for the reasons outlined in this paper, and access to medical and psychological support should be improved in order to address pilot stress, distress and the potential for increased pilot suicides as a direct result of economic effects of the pandemic
Aircraft-Assisted Pilot Suicides in the General Aviation Increased for One-Year Period after 11 September 2001 Attack in the United States
Pilot aircraft-assisted suicides (AAS) are rare, and there is limited understanding of copycat phenomenon among aviators. The aim of this study was to evaluate the possible effect the 11 September 2001, terrorist attacks had on pilot AASs in the U.S. Fatal aviation accidents in the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) database were searched using the following search words: "suicide", "murder-suicide" and "homicide-suicide". The timeline b…
Copycats in Pilot Aircraft-Assisted Suicides after the Germanwings Incident
Aircraft-assisted pilot suicide is a rare but serious phenomenon. The aim of this study was to evaluate changes in pilot aircraft-assisted suicide risks, i.e., a copycat effect, in the U.S. and Germany after the Germanwings 2015 incident in the French Alps. Aircraft-assisted pilot suicides were searched in the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) accident investigation database and in the German Bundestelle für Flugunfalluntersuchung …
Anxiety at 35,000 feet
I'm not picking up a heart‐beat’
This study explores the experiences of obstetric sonographers imparting diagnostic information which may be considered ‘bad news’ to expectant mothers. Semi‐structured interviews were conducted with nine sonographers at two London Hospitals to elicit their experiences of giving bad news. Themes which emerged then formed the basis for a quantitative survey of 180 practising obstetric sonographers in England. Their perception of what constitutes ‘b…
Coping with the disfiguring effects of vitiligo
Vitiligo is a progressive condition involving a loss of pigmentation in the skin; it can be disfiguring and no effective treatment or cure exists. Although vitiligo's medical effects have been studied extensively, little attention has been paid to its psychological impact or to the effects of psychological state on the illness itself. To address these issues, the present study examined the effect of cognitive behavioural therapy on coping with vi…
Psychological distress among gay men supporting a lover or partner with Aids
To date, there has been little research to examine how much psychological distress is caused to people providing care and support to a lover or partner with AIDS. This study aimed to determine the level of psychological distress experienced by a sample of gay men providing care and support to a lover or partner with AIDS. It was conducted as a cross-sectional questionnaire survey. A control group was not enlisted, thus the study was descriptive i…
Henry duckett, journal publisher
Counselling the ?worried well? in HIV disease
Systemic theory in counselling people with HIV disease
Discussing safer sex in HIV counselling
Although it is acknowledged that counselling can be an important factor in behaviour change, we lack information on how HIV counselling works in practice. Research is reported based on transcriptions of audio-tapes of counselling drawn from seven hospital centres in England and the USA. It is shown that communication occurs in the context of three different formats. Certain formats and conversational strategies used by counsellors produce far gre…
The impact of HIV/Aids on the family
Efficacy of psychological therapies for people with HIV disease
Counselling patients with HIV infection about laboratory tests with predictive values
Laboratory tests, including CD4 counts, p24 antigen, raised levels of B2 microglobulin, neopterin and CMV antibodies, have been established as important predictive markers of disease progression in patients with HIV infection. As HIV antibody testing becomes more accepted in medical practice, counselling about these laboratory predictors of progression can help patients and doctors plan together the patients' care and treatment. Addressing patien…
Aids–ten years on
Systemic hiv/aids counselling
There has been considerable emphasis on psychosocial support for people with HIV/AIDS in recent years. Approaches to counselling inevitably reflect the personal style and conceptual framework adopted by the counsellor. Certain patterns, themes and ideas may arise in the context of counselling about HIV/AIDS. These include issues relating to unpredictability, hopelessness, separateness, dying and confidentially. One task of the systemic HIV/AIDS c…
Interactional problems of addressing ‘dreaded issues’ in HIV-counselling
Addressing the patient's fears about the future is an essential task in HIV counselling. The paper examines with conversation analytical methods the interactional dynamics of such discussions in video- and audio-taped counselling sessions with patients coming for an HIV test and others diagnosed as HIV antibody positive. Two communication formats were found to be used in the sessions, one based on information delivery made by the counsellor and t…
The family and HIV/Aids
This article provides a brief review of studies presented at the San Francisco conference that deal with the social and psychological impact of AIDS on the family. AIDS is a biopsychosocial problem affecting not only the patient but also the patients biological family and social family. Most articles deal with the psychological impact on family members. As one study explains most families grappling with AIDS are composed of single parents usually…
Aids care—into the 1990's
San Francisco conference review
Paradoxical interventions in counselling for people with an intractable Aids-worry
This article has two main objectives. Firstly, consideration is given to the context in which certain individuals become convinced that they have been infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), despite repeated negative HIV antibody tests and reassurance. Secondly, it is to describe an intervention which is designed to escalate anxiety in individuals with an intractable AIDS-worry, in order to release them from their rigid and distress…
I'm not picking up a heart‐beat’
This study explores the experiences of obstetric sonographers imparting diagnostic information which may be considered ‘bad news’ to expectant mothers. Semi‐structured interviews were conducted with nine sonographers at two London Hospitals to elicit their experiences of giving bad news. Themes which emerged then formed the basis for a quantitative survey of 180 practising obstetric sonographers in England. Their perception of what constitutes ‘b…
Coping with the disfiguring effects of vitiligo
Vitiligo is a progressive condition involving a loss of pigmentation in the skin; it can be disfiguring and no effective treatment or cure exists. Although vitiligo's medical effects have been studied extensively, little attention has been paid to its psychological impact or to the effects of psychological state on the illness itself. To address these issues, the present study examined the effect of cognitive behavioural therapy on coping with vi…
The impact of Aids/HIV on the family
AIDS/HIV can place considerable stress on family relationships. Family interviews with those affected by AIDS have been conducted at the Royal Free Hospital, London, since 1983. The themes that commonly emerge from these interviews relate to: i. facing up to bss and death in a climate where there is social stigma towards infected individuals and their families; ii. stress related to changes in the structure of the family; Hi. multiple and complex…
Paradoxical interventions in counselling for people with an intractable Aids-worry
This article has two main objectives. Firstly, consideration is given to the context in which certain individuals become convinced that they have been infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), despite repeated negative HIV antibody tests and reassurance. Secondly, it is to describe an intervention which is designed to escalate anxiety in individuals with an intractable AIDS-worry, in order to release them from their rigid and distress…
Aids and children
Haemophilia is a life-long, life-threatening inherited condition for which there is treatment but no cure. It affects not only the patient but all members of the family. This paper focuses on how AIDS/HIV, which shares these characteristics with haemophilia, has affected children with HIV, their siblings, those who have remained antibody negative and those with HIV infected fathers. The impact of haemophilia and AIDS on the family is considered a…
Aids counselling
The impact of Aids/HIV on the family
AIDS/HIV can place considerable stress on family relationships. Family interviews with those affected by AIDS have been conducted at the Royal Free Hospital, London, since 1983. The themes that commonly emerge from these interviews relate to: i. facing up to bss and death in a climate where there is social stigma towards infected individuals and their families; ii. stress related to changes in the structure of the family; Hi. multiple and complex…
Interactional problems of addressing ‘dreaded issues’ in HIV-counselling
Addressing the patient's fears about the future is an essential task in HIV counselling. The paper examines with conversation analytical methods the interactional dynamics of such discussions in video- and audio-taped counselling sessions with patients coming for an HIV test and others diagnosed as HIV antibody positive. Two communication formats were found to be used in the sessions, one based on information delivery made by the counsellor and t…
The family and HIV/Aids
This article provides a brief review of studies presented at the San Francisco conference that deal with the social and psychological impact of AIDS on the family. AIDS is a biopsychosocial problem affecting not only the patient but also the patients biological family and social family. Most articles deal with the psychological impact on family members. As one study explains most families grappling with AIDS are composed of single parents usually…
Aids care—into the 1990's
San Francisco conference review
Efficacy of psychological therapies for people with HIV disease
Counselling patients with HIV infection about laboratory tests with predictive values
Laboratory tests, including CD4 counts, p24 antigen, raised levels of B2 microglobulin, neopterin and CMV antibodies, have been established as important predictive markers of disease progression in patients with HIV infection. As HIV antibody testing becomes more accepted in medical practice, counselling about these laboratory predictors of progression can help patients and doctors plan together the patients' care and treatment. Addressing patien…
Aids–ten years on
Systemic hiv/aids counselling
There has been considerable emphasis on psychosocial support for people with HIV/AIDS in recent years. Approaches to counselling inevitably reflect the personal style and conceptual framework adopted by the counsellor. Certain patterns, themes and ideas may arise in the context of counselling about HIV/AIDS. These include issues relating to unpredictability, hopelessness, separateness, dying and confidentially. One task of the systemic HIV/AIDS c…
Discussing safer sex in HIV counselling
Although it is acknowledged that counselling can be an important factor in behaviour change, we lack information on how HIV counselling works in practice. Research is reported based on transcriptions of audio-tapes of counselling drawn from seven hospital centres in England and the USA. It is shown that communication occurs in the context of three different formats. Certain formats and conversational strategies used by counsellors produce far gre…
The impact of HIV/Aids on the family
Counselling the ?worried well? in HIV disease
Systemic theory in counselling people with HIV disease
Henry duckett, journal publisher
Psychological distress among gay men supporting a lover or partner with Aids
To date, there has been little research to examine how much psychological distress is caused to people providing care and support to a lover or partner with AIDS. This study aimed to determine the level of psychological distress experienced by a sample of gay men providing care and support to a lover or partner with AIDS. It was conducted as a cross-sectional questionnaire survey. A control group was not enlisted, thus the study was descriptive i…
Coping with the disfiguring effects of vitiligo
Vitiligo is a progressive condition involving a loss of pigmentation in the skin; it can be disfiguring and no effective treatment or cure exists. Although vitiligo's medical effects have been studied extensively, little attention has been paid to its psychological impact or to the effects of psychological state on the illness itself. To address these issues, the present study examined the effect of cognitive behavioural therapy on coping with vi…
I'm not picking up a heart‐beat’
This study explores the experiences of obstetric sonographers imparting diagnostic information which may be considered ‘bad news’ to expectant mothers. Semi‐structured interviews were conducted with nine sonographers at two London Hospitals to elicit their experiences of giving bad news. Themes which emerged then formed the basis for a quantitative survey of 180 practising obstetric sonographers in England. Their perception of what constitutes ‘b…
Anxiety at 35,000 feet
Aircraft-Assisted Pilot Suicides in the General Aviation Increased for One-Year Period after 11 September 2001 Attack in the United States
Pilot aircraft-assisted suicides (AAS) are rare, and there is limited understanding of copycat phenomenon among aviators. The aim of this study was to evaluate the possible effect the 11 September 2001, terrorist attacks had on pilot AASs in the U.S. Fatal aviation accidents in the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) database were searched using the following search words: "suicide", "murder-suicide" and "homicide-suicide". The timeline b…
Copycats in Pilot Aircraft-Assisted Suicides after the Germanwings Incident
Aircraft-assisted pilot suicide is a rare but serious phenomenon. The aim of this study was to evaluate changes in pilot aircraft-assisted suicide risks, i.e., a copycat effect, in the U.S. and Germany after the Germanwings 2015 incident in the French Alps. Aircraft-assisted pilot suicides were searched in the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) accident investigation database and in the German Bundestelle für Flugunfalluntersuchung …
Black Swan Pandemic and the Risk of Pilot Suicide
The medical risks to pilots, whether to their physical or mental health, are clearly theoretically raised during the COVID-19 pandemic for the reasons outlined in this paper, and access to medical and psychological support should be improved in order to address pilot stress, distress and the potential for increased pilot suicides as a direct result of economic effects of the pandemic
Self-Harm in Aviation Medicine—A Complex Challenge During a Pandemic
OPINION article Front. Public Health, 02 August 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.681618
Medicine (24 works) · Psychology (18 works) · Psychiatry (9 works) · Family medicine (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Engineering (6 works) · Virology (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Disease (5 works) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (5 works)