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Suicide disparities across urban and suburban areas in the U.S.: A comparative assessment of socio-environmental factors using a data-driven predictive approach [PDF]

, 2020
Disparity in suicide rates between urban and suburban/rural areas is growing, with rural areas typically witnessing higher suicide rates in the U.S. However, previous studies often ignored the effect of socio-environmental factors on the suicide rates and its regional disparity.
arxiv   +1 more source

Euthanasia and Physician-assisted Suicide in Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Review of the Literature and Description of a Clinical Case)

Львівський клінічний вісник, 2015
Introduction. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a slowly progressive degenerative polyetiological incurable disease of the central nervous system which causes muscle paralysis and atrophy due to the degeneration of the upper and lower motor neurons.
Nehrych T., Papish M., Shorobura M.
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Gillian Bennett & Physician-Assisted Suicide

Voices in Bioethics, 2014
“I want out before the day when I can no longer assess my situation,” wrote Gillian Bennett, a Vancouver woman, in an open letter to be published after her death. “[I] will be physically alive but there will be no one inside.” Addressing the dementia she
Joshua Preston
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Oral edaravone demonstrated a favorable safety profile in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis after 48 weeks of treatment

Muscle &Nerve, Volume 67, Issue 2, Page 124-129, February 2023., 2023
Abstract Introduction/Aims An intravenous (IV) formulation of edaravone has been shown to slow the rate of physical functional decline in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). An oral suspension formulation of edaravone was recently approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for use in patients with ALS.
Angela Genge, Gary L. Pattee, Gen Sobue, Masashi Aoki, Hiide Yoshino, Philippe Couratier, Christian Lunetta, Susanne Petri, Daniel Selness, Sachin Bidani, Manabu Hirai, Takeshi Sakata, Alejandro Salah, Stephen Apple, Art Wamil, Alexander Kalin, Carlayne E. Jackson   +16 more
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Psycho‐emotional recovery, the meaning of care in the process of providing palliative care to Iranian people with cancer: A grounded theory study

Nursing Open, Volume 10, Issue 2, Page 889-900, February 2023., 2023
Abstract Aim Despite the significance of palliative care in treating people with cancer, the provision of this type of care in Iran is vague and unorganized. This research intends to explore the meaning of care in the process of providing palliative care to Iranian people with cancer and to develop a theory that would explain the phenomenon.
Mir Hossein Aghaei, Zohreh Vanaki, Eesa Mohammadi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The blood currency of suicidal mass shooters: 60 years of U.S. evidence [PDF]

, 2023
When looking at mass shooting incidents, suicidal shooters seem to carry an even more extreme sense of terror and brutality. The current study aimed to examine how mass shooters suicidality and suicide behavioral threshold influence the severity of the mass shooting.
arxiv   +1 more source

Central monitoring of depression and anxiety symptoms reduces placebo responses in depression clinical trials: A post hoc exploratory analysis of data from the phase III CCT‐004 trial of vortioxetine

Neuropsychopharmacology Reports, Volume 42, Issue 4, Page 468-477, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Aim Clinical trials of antidepressants often fail to demonstrate their efficacy versus placebo, suggesting that patient selection based on physician ratings of depression may contribute to a high placebo response. Methods In the CCT‐004 trial of vortioxetine, central monitoring was employed to compare physician and patient ratings of ...
Yoshinori Watanabe, Akira Nishimura, Toshiaki Kikuchi, Norifusa Sawada, Manami Imazaki, Isao Inada, Koichiro Watanabe   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Robin: A Novel Online Suicidal Text Corpus of Substantial Breadth and Scale [PDF]

arXiv, 2022
Suicide is a major public health crisis. With more than 20,000,000 suicide attempts each year, the early detection of suicidal intent has the potential to save hundreds of thousands of lives. Traditional mental health screening methods are time-consuming, costly, and often inaccessible to disadvantaged populations; online detection of suicidal intent ...
arxiv  

Social, cultural and experiential patterning of attitudes and behaviour towards assisted suicide in Switzerland: evidence from a national population-based study

Swiss Medical Weekly, 2020
Switzerland has the longest history of the legal practice of non-physician assisted suicide of any country. Assisted suicide is not very tightly regulated in Switzerland, and almost all assisted suicides are supported by a right-to-die organisation ...
Sarah Vilpert, Elio Bolliger, Carmen Borrat-Besson, Gian Domenico Borasio, Jürgen Maurer   +4 more
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Fostering social connectedness among adolescents and adults with autism: A qualitative analysis

Psychology in the Schools, Volume 60, Issue 1, Page 23-39, January 2023., 2023
Abstract Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) impacts approximately 1 in 44 children in the United States. Common characteristics of ASD are marked deficits in communication and social connectedness. As autistic children approach adolescence, there is a lack of interventions available to them.
Olivia Tomfohrde, Rebekah L. Hudock, Kalli B. Kremer, Nusroon Fatiha, Lindsey Weiler   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source