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Survey of doctors' opinions of the legalisation of physician assisted suicide

BMC Medical Ethics, 2009
Background Assisted dying has wide support among the general population but there is evidence that those providing care for the dying may be less supportive. Senior doctors would be involved in implementing the proposed change in the law.
Rayner Lauren, Price Annabel, Lee William, Hotopf Matthew   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Withdrawal of life‐sustaining treatment in Japanese home care: A cross‐sectional survey

Journal of General and Family Medicine, EarlyView.
Abstract Background In Japan, legal and social concerns exist about withdrawing life‐sustaining treatment (LST) even at the end of life. This study aimed to investigate the experience of physicians and nurses involved in home care with LST withdrawal. Methods A web‐based questionnaire survey was conducted among physicians and nurses who were members of
Kei Takeshita, Noriko Nagao, Toshihiko Dozono, Keiko Kamiya, Yasuhiko Miura   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Religiosity and the Wish of Older Adults for Physician-Assisted Suicide

Religions, 2018
In industrialized countries, population ageing is associated with intense discussions on the issue of dying with dignity. Some countries have legalized assisted suicide and authorized physicians to provide the knowledge and/or means for suffering ...
Sylvie Lapierre, Dolores Angela Castelli Dransart, Kim St-Amant, Gabrièle Dubuc, Maude Houle, Marie-Michelle Lacerte, Christian Maggiori   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Building and Using Personal Knowledge Graph to Improve Suicidal Ideation Detection on Social Media [PDF]

arXiv, 2020
A large number of individuals are suffering from suicidal ideation in the world. There are a number of causes behind why an individual might suffer from suicidal ideation. As the most popular platform for self-expression, emotion release, and personal interaction, individuals may exhibit a number of symptoms of suicidal ideation on social media ...
arxiv  

Implementing routine medical and mental health screening in children and adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease

Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, EarlyView.
Abstract Objectives Living with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) can have a significant impact on children. Many children with IBD experience symptoms of anxiety or depression. Routine screening for mental health has been recommended. This preregistered study aimed to describe the implementation of patient‐reported outcome measures (PROMs) in routine ...
Marije van Dalen, Martha A. C. van Gaalen, Marein M. Favejee, Monique S. den Hollander–Ardon, Karolijn Dulfer, Lissy de Ridder, Johanna C. Escher   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interpersonal Psychotherapy for the Treatment of Depression in Parkinson's Disease: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial

Movement Disorders, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Depression is a common nonmotor complication in Parkinson's disease (PD). However, few studies have evaluated the efficacy of first‐line psychological therapies for depression in this patient population. Objectives This randomized controlled trial evaluated the efficacy of interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT), an empirically validated ...
Diana Koszycki, Monica Taljaard, Jacques Bradwejn, Caroline Lee, Giorgio A. Tasca, David A. Grimes   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

KONTEKS DAN KONSTRUKSI SOSIAL MENGENAI KEMATIAN ELEKTIF ( EUTHANASIA ) ∗ )

Buletin Psikologi, 2015
Euthanasia bukanlah topik mudah untuk didiskusikan. Salah satu sebabnya adalah banyaknya ragam definisi mengenai euthanasia. Definisi yang paling mudah adalah secara harafiah, yaitu kematian (thanatos) yang baik (eu).
Helly Prajitno Soetjipto
doaj   +1 more source

Spontaneous Speech-Based Suicide Risk Detection Using Whisper and Large Language Models [PDF]

The early detection of suicide risk is important since it enables the intervention to prevent potential suicide attempts. This paper studies the automatic detection of suicide risk based on spontaneous speech from adolescents, and collects a Mandarin dataset with 15 hours of suicide speech from more than a thousand adolescents aged from ten to eighteen
arxiv   +1 more source

Physician‐Assisted Suicide [PDF]

, 1993
Timothy Howell, David T. Watts
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Is suicide mortality associated with neighbourhood social fragmentation and deprivation? A Dutch register-based case-control study using individualized neighbourhoods [PDF]

arXiv, 2019
Background: Neighbourhood social fragmentation and socioeconomic deprivation seem to be associated with suicide mortality. However, results are inconclusive, which might be because dynamics in the social context are not well-represented by administratively bounded neighbourhoods at baseline. We used individualized neighbourhoods to examine associations
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