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“Someday, I'll be an ancestor:” Understanding indigenous intergenerational connectedness through qualitative research to inform measure development

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Intergenerational connectedness broadly encompasses relations among humans, lands, and all living and spiritual beings, and functions as an important part of Indigenous well‐being. Many public health campaigns and interventions aim to promote connectedness to support holistic wellness and reduce health inequities. Currently, however, there are
Victoria M. O'Keefe, Tara L. Maudrie, Fiona Grubin, Miigis B. Gonzalez, Jessica Saniguq Ullrich, Maria Crouch, Evan White, Monica M. Desjardins, Lisa Martin, Melissa Lewis, Mary HorseChief, Angela Fernandez, Angelina Phoebe Keryte, Melissa L. Walls   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Attitudes about withholding or withdrawing life-prolonging treatment, euthanasia, assisted suicide, and physician assisted suicide: a cross-sectional survey among the general public in Croatia

BMC Medical Ethics, 2022
Background There has been no in-depth research of public attitudes on withholding or withdrawing life-prolonging treatment, euthanasia, assisted suicide and physician assisted suicide in Croatia.
Ana Borovecki, Marko Curkovic, Krunoslav Nikodem, Stjepan Oreskovic, Milivoj Novak, Filip Rubic, Jurica Vukovic, Diana Spoljar, Bert Gordijn, Chris Gastmans   +9 more
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Natural History and Diagnostic Findings in an Adult Man Diagnosed With Attenuated Krabbe Disease

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Krabbe disease (KD), or globoid cell leukodystrophy, is a rare autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disorder caused by a deficiency in galactocerebrosidase (GALC), leading to psychosine (galactosylsphingosine) accumulation and myelin damage.
Eamon P. McCarron, Andrew Oldham, Amit Herwadkar, Sarah Jenkinson, Christopher Campbell, Kate Neal, Heather J. Church, James A. Cooper, Karolina M. Stepien   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Potential New Expression Biomarkers for Anorexia Nervosa

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a psychiatric disorder with an estimated heritability of around 70%. Although the largest meta‐analysis of genome‐wide association studies on AN identified independent risk‐conferring loci for the disorder, the molecular mechanisms underlying the genetic basis of AN remain to be elucidated.
Camille Verebi, Nicolas Lebrun, Justine Vily Petit, Odile Viltart, Philibert Duriez, Benjamin Saint‐Pierre, Philip Gorwood, Nicolas Ramoz, Thierry Bienvenu   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Increase in assisted suicide in Switzerland: did the socioeconomic predictors change? Results from the Swiss National Cohort

BMJ Open, 2018
Objective To determine whether the strong increase in assisted suicides in Switzerland since 2008 is linked to a shift in the socioeconomic factors associated with assisted suicide and its related diagnoses.Methods In a population-based longitudinal ...
Marcel Zwahlen, Nicole Steck, Christoph Junker   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Role of AI in Peer Support for Young People: A Study of Preferences for Human- and AI-Generated Responses [PDF]

Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2024
Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) is integrated into everyday technology, including news, education, and social media. AI has further pervaded private conversations as conversational partners, auto-completion, and response suggestions. As social media becomes young people's main method of peer support exchange, we need to understand when and how ...
arxiv   +1 more source

Identification of Transdiagnostic Childhood Externalizing Pathology Within an Electronic Medical Records Database and Application to the Analysis of Rare Copy Number Variation

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Externalizing traits and behaviors are broadly defined by impairments in self‐regulation and impulse control that typically begin in childhood and adolescence. Externalizing behaviors, traits, and symptoms span a range of traditional psychiatric diagnostic categories.
India A. Reddy, Lide Han, Sandra Sanchez‐Roige, Maria Niarchou, Douglas M. Ruderfer, Lea K. Davis   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Estimating the burden of disease attributable to non-assisted suicide in Switzerland from 2009 to 2021: a secondary data analysis

Swiss Medical Weekly
CONTEXT AND GOAL: This research addresses the issue of suicide and attempted suicide, which have a significant impact on global premature mortality and disability.
Annora Mack, Sarah Rajkumar, Jacob Kofler, Kaspar Wyss   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

May Christians request medically assisted suicide and euthanasia?

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2016
The article deals with the question: ‘Is it morally acceptable for terminally ill Christians to voluntarily request medically assisted suicide or euthanasia?’ After a brief discussion of relevant changes in the moral landscape over the last century, two ...
D. Etienne de Villiers
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The perspective of nurses towards euthanasia and assisted suicide: a review article [PDF]

Report of Health Care, 2015
Euthanasia or assisted suicide is a contentious issue that provokes substantial clinical and ethical debate. Nurses have a key role in caring for end-of-life patients. They are also often involved in euthanasia or assisted suicide. Therefore, we aimed to
Alireza Yousefy, Habibalah Rezaei, Amin Beigzadeh   +2 more
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