Differences in perceived risks and benefits of herbal, over-the-counter conventional, and prescribed conventional, medicines, and the implications of this for the safe and effective use of herbal products

2007 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 84-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie Lynch ◽  
Dianne Berry
2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 236-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodney Stosic ◽  
Fiona Dunagan ◽  
Hazel Palmer ◽  
Trafford Fowler ◽  
Ian Adams

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 511-524 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole M. Overstreet ◽  
Mukadder Okuyan ◽  
Celia B. Fisher

African American women living with HIV were asked to reflect on the perceived risks and benefits of research participation after completing a study examining socially sensitive issues in their lives, including intimate partner violence (IPV) and HIV. Administration of standardized quantitative instruments yielded positive responses to the research experience. However, qualitative assessments of perceived risks and benefits revealed more nuanced responses. For example, confidentiality concerns were more prominent in open-ended responses as was participants’ positive attitudes toward monetary compensation. In addition, some women reported that study participation provided them with new insights about their experiences with IPV. Findings suggest that empirical studies on research protections involving potentially distressing and socially sensitive experiences with vulnerable populations require both quantitative and qualitative assessments of perceived risks and benefits. We discuss implications of our findings for ethics practices in trauma-related research among populations with multiple social vulnerabilities.


Author(s):  
Robert A. Dickey ◽  
Mark R. Mcminn ◽  
Winston Z. Seegobin ◽  
Kathleen A. Gathercoal

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neeltje Blankenstein ◽  
Jorien van Hoorn ◽  
Tycho Dekkers ◽  
Arne Popma ◽  
Brenda Jansen ◽  
...  

Adolescence is a phase of heightened risk taking compared to childhood and adulthood, which is even more prominent for specific adolescent populations, such as youth with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Until now little is known about how perceived risks and benefits relate to adolescent risk taking. Here, we used the adolescent version of the Domain-Specific Risk-Taking (DoSpeRT) scale to investigate the likelihood of risk taking, perceived risks, perceived benefits, and their tradeoff in two studies. In the first longitudinal study, 375 11-to-23-year-olds completed the DOSPERT one up to three times. A second biannual longitudinal study included 180 11-to-20-year old boys diagnosed with ADHD (N=81), and an IQ and age-matched control group (N=99). Using mixed-effects models, we found a peak in likelihood of risk taking in mid-to-late adolescence, but only in the health/safety, ethical, and social domains of risk taking, with similar curvilinear patterns in perceived benefits (peaks) and perceived risks (dips). In both cohorts, perceived risks and benefits were significant predictors of risk taking in all domains, and perceived benefits related more strongly to risk taking than perceived risks. Moreover, perceived benefits increasingly related to risk taking across adolescence, a pattern that was found in recreational risk taking in both studies. Generally, we observed little differences in risk taking, and perceived risks and benefits between the ADHD and control group. However, risk-return models indicated that adolescents with ADHD displayed a heightened likelihood of risk-taking behavior in the social domain, and their perceived risks related less strongly to risk taking, relative to typically developing adolescents. Taken together, our results are consistent with the developmental peak in risk taking observed in real life and highlight the role of perceived risks and benefits in risk taking. These findings provide tentative entry points for possible prevention and intervention.


Author(s):  
Ginevra Gravili

Social media tools are becoming an important presence in recruitment processes, transforming them. They allow an instant sharing of ideas, opinions, knowledge and experiences, creating a new “space-time” dimension that could be translated in a new way (additional) to “recruit” workers. Although there are many benefits and promises from social media, however several risks are associated with their use. The ambiguity related to legal and ethical issues of social media, at the same time, contains the enthusiasm related to the potentialities that social media offer. In particular, this chapter aims at analysing the perceived risks and benefits of social media by students to understand if it can be useful for University Career Services (referred to UCS) to use these tools in job placement. The analysis is conducted in five countries: Netherlands, Sweden, Lithuania, Bulgaria and Croatia. It can be useful for managers of universities and firms to understand whether the presence of Universities on social media by students and firms is positive or not.


2020 ◽  
pp. 684-705
Author(s):  
Maha Albur ◽  
Alasdair MacGowan ◽  
Roger G. Finch

The practice of medicine changed dramatically with the availability of effective antimicrobial agents. Often fatal diseases, such as infective endocarditis, became treatable; much minor community infectious morbidity became readily controlled; for example, urinary tract infection; many surgical procedures became much safer, and developments in solid organ and bone marrow transplantation became possible. However, the very success of antimicrobial chemotherapy has led to anti-infective overuse and misuse. In some countries, antibiotics are freely available to the public for purchase ‘over the counter’, with few controls or guidance to ensure their safe and effective use. In many others there are poorly developed antimicrobial stewardship programmes. The emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance worldwide and the decline in development and licensing of new antimicrobials over the last 30 years has threatened the future successful treatment of bacterial infections.


PLoS ONE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. e0227818 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel D. Teodorini ◽  
Nicola Rycroft ◽  
James H. Smith-Spark

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 201-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Robinson ◽  
A. Lorenc ◽  
R. Kumar ◽  
M. Blair

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