Walking and cycling are promoted to encourage sustainable travel behavior among children and adults. School children during their travel episode to-and-from school are disproportionately exposed to air pollution due to multiple reasons such as proximity to high traffic roads and peak volumes. Regular use of less polluted routes to and from school can bring significant health benefits for school children. This paper presents a route to school informational intervention that was developed incorporating approaches and methods suggested in the literature for effective behavioral interventions. The intervention was implemented using escorting parents/guardians (N=104) of school children of Antwerp, Belgium to adopt school routes with least exposure to pollutants. Collected data and its analysis revealed that 60% participants (N= 62) could benefit themselves by adopting the suggested cleanest routes to school, of whom a significant proportion of participants (i.e. 34%, N= 35) have a difference of average NO2 concentration between the alternative and current route of around 10µg/m 3 . This information about alternatives routes with their potential benefits was presented to each participant via defined study protocols. Based on the feedback of participants that could potentially adopt suggested alternatives, 77% (N=48) have switched their routes. These results indicated that intervention was effective, and it can bring higher benefits when implemented on a wider scale.

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Diagnosis and duration of treatment were significant predictors of discharge destination. Patients with diagnoses of enduring psychotic illness, were more likely to be discharged to a secondary psychiatric service irrespective of gender, ethnicity and geographical location. These data may suggest the possibility to predict the discharge destination when patients are taken on to the caseload of an early intervention in psychosis (EIP) team and have important implications for psychoeducation, preparing the patient for future after EIP and distribution of resources.

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Unilateral E.C.T. applied to the non-dominant hemisphere has been tried by several workers in cases of depressive illness. Although Levy (1968) has pointed out that the evidence is not sufficient to recommend unilateral E.C.T. as a routine procedure, its main advantages over bilateral E.C.T. have been demonstrated as reduction of post-E.C.T. memory disturbances (Zinkin and Birtchnell 1968 and Valentine et al., 1968), and diminution of post-E.C.T. confusion (Halliday et al., 1968). The present investigation studies the effect of unilateral E.C.T. on schizophrenic delusions and hallucinations with a view to testing the hypothesis that the apparent superiority represented by the diminished side-effects with the unilateral technique might be therapeutically disadvantageous where treatment of patients with delusions and hallucinations is concerned. According to this hypothesis memory impairment may be part of the therapeutic mechanism responsible for the disruption of delusions and hallucinations and their ultimate amelioration or disappearance. If this hypothesis is correct patients treated with bilateral E.C.T. should do better than those treated with the unilateral technique.