Community attitudes toward near-death experiences: A Chinese study

Background In 2002, the Nepalese abortion law went from being highly restrictive to fully liberal. This study aimed to explore a local community’s perception of the situation for unmarried Nepalese women wanting to practice their legal right to abortion.Methods The study comprised a cross-sectional survey and in-depth interviews with men and women above the age of 16 years living in the Makwanpur District, Nepal. The final data included 55 questionnaires and 16 interviews. The questionnaire data was univariate analysed, while a condensation of meaning analysis was carried out on the interviews.Results The overall awareness of abortion being legal was high, although the extent of knowledge of the specific legal grounds varied. Unmarried women were believed to have access to abortion services, although they risked stigmatisation due to their marital status. The community attitude towards these women having abortions was very negative, hence it differed from the legal acceptance of all women having the right to abortion. This was explained by societal norms on premarital sexual activity. Generally, the participants felt that changing attitudes would be difficult but possible over time.Conclusion A considerable gap exists between the legal acceptance of abortion and community attitudes when it comes to unmarried women as this group encounters barriers when wanting to practice their right. Therefore, these barriers need to be addressed to allow unmarried Nepalese women access to safe abortion services without the risk of being stigmatised.One possible alternative is educational initiatives such as disseminating information vigorously through mass media to create awareness.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/hprospect.v12i2.9869 Health Prospect Vol.12(2) 2013: 24-30

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Concordance between the interictal focal EEG pattern and MRI lesions as a predictor of a favorable surgical outcome in patients with epileptic spasms: a Chinese study

Journal of Neurosurgery Pediatrics ◽

10.3171/2018.10.peds18380 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 23 (4) ◽

pp. 422-431 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Cuiping Xu ◽

Tao Yu ◽

Guojun Zhang ◽

Gary B. Rajah ◽

Yuping Wang ◽

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Keyword(s):

Seizure Frequency ◽

Surgical Outcome ◽

Epileptic Spasms ◽

Select Group ◽

Chinese Study ◽

Interictal Eeg ◽

Atypical Absence ◽

Multilobar Resection ◽

Age Range ◽

Eeg Pattern

OBJECTIVEThe aim of this study was to evaluate the electro-clinical features, etiology, treatment, and postsurgical seizure outcomes in patients with intractable epileptic spasms (ESs).METHODSThe authors retrospectively studied the medical records of all patients who had presented with medically intractable ESs and had undergone surgery in the period between October 2009 and August 2015. The interictal electroencephalography (EEG) pattern, MRI studies, magnetoencephalography findings, and postsurgical seizure outcomes were compared.RESULTSTwenty-six patients, 12 boys and 14 girls (age range 3–22 years), were eligible for study inclusion. Of these 26 patients, 84.6% (22) presented with multiple seizure types including partial seizures (PSs) independent of the ESs (30.8%); ESs followed by tonic seizures (30.8%); myoclonic seizures (19.2%); tonic seizures (19.2%); ESs followed by PSs (19.2%); focal seizures with secondary generalization (15.4%); atypical absence (11.5%); PSs followed by ESs (7.7%); and myoclonic followed by tonic seizures (7.7%). Seventeen patients underwent multilobar resection and 9 underwent unilobar resection. At the last follow-up (mean 36.6 months), 42.3% of patients were seizure free (outcome classification [OC] 1), 23.1% had > 50% reduction in seizure frequency (OC2–OC4), and 34.6% had < 50% reduction in seizure frequency or no improvement (OC5 and OC6). Predictors of favorable outcomes included an interictal focal EEG pattern and concordance between interictal EEG and MRI-demonstrated lesions (p = 0.001 and 0.004, respectively).CONCLUSIONSA favorable surgical outcome is achievable in a highly select group of patients with ESs secondary to structural lesions. Interictal EEG can help in identifying patients with the potential for favorable resective outcomes.

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Community attitudes towards mental illness

Asian Pacific Journal of Health Sciences ◽

10.21276/apjhs.2017.4.3.24 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 4 (3) ◽

pp. 151-156 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Terrence Mulenga Chokwe ◽

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Simunyama Luyando ◽

Seter Siziya ◽

Alfred Sichilima ◽

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Keyword(s):

Mental Illness ◽

Community Attitudes

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Australian and New Zealand Biosolids Partnership: Collaboration for more effective biosolids management

Water Practice & Technology ◽

10.2166/wpt.2010.037 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Andrew Speers ◽

Allen Gale ◽

Nancy Penney

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

Policy Development ◽

Sustainable Management ◽

Best Practice ◽

Community Consultation ◽

Critical Research ◽

Community Attitudes ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship ◽

Sustainability Framework

This paper describes an international biosolids management initiative, known as the Australian and New Zealand Biosolids Partnership (ANZBP). The ANZBP - known formerly as the Australasian Biosolids Partnership – comprises 33 members dedicated to promoting the sustainable management of biosolids across the two nations. Two critical research projects are described, each of which contributes to the ANZBP goal of promoting the sustainable management of biosolids. The first is a review of community attitudes to biosolids management, the outcomes of which will be used to refine communication tools and methods of community consultation and which will provide input to policy development over time. The second is a review of regulations in place in Australia and New Zealand carried out to identify inconsistencies and improvements that could be made. An outcome of this initiative is potentially the development of a best practice manual. The relationship of the two projects to a sustainability framework adopted by the ANZBP is also described, as is the relationship of the two projects to each other.

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Near-Death Experiences and the Religious Metacultures of Western Modernity

10.1093/oso/9780190888848.003.0004 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Jens Schlieter

Keyword(s):

Moral Significance ◽

Western Modernity ◽

Religious Meaning ◽

Near Death Experiences ◽

Being Religious

Building on earlier conceptions of “metacultures,” this chapter defines four metacultures that are important for Western near-death discourse: Christian, Gnostic–Esoteric, and the Spiritualist–Occult, being religious in outlook; the fourth, however, the Naturalist metaculture, is of a nonreligious nature. The three former metacultures assign religious meaning to the content of near-death experiences, affirming by and large the soul’s survival of death. The chapter argues that this meaning has (a) ontological, (b) epistemic, (c) intersubjective or communicative, and (d) moral significance. Naturalist metaculture is defined as offering pharmacological, neurological, or psychological explanations of near-death experiences, usually declaring their content to be hallucinatory.

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