French lay people's and health professionals' views regarding the acceptability of involuntary treatment of nursing home residents

Lhermite, Astrid; Sastre, Marı́a Teresa Muñoz; Sorum, Paul Clay; Mullet, Étienne

doi:10.1016/j.ijlp.2015.01.005

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“…These findings, in association with findings from other studies on patients' involuntary treatment (e.g., Lhermite, Muñoz Sastre, Sorum, & Mullet, 2015) led to think that, in some cases, the patient's right to autonomy principle of bioethics may be superseded by the nonmalevolence principle ("first, do no harm"), which applies in these cases to the patient's social environment (protecting the other young family members). Some authors have, however, argued that involuntary treatment does not always amount to denying patients' rights to autonomy (Douglas, Bonte, Focquaert, Devolder, & Sterckx, 2013).…”

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Mapeando las opiniones de los franceses sobre la castración química de delincuentes sexuales que abusan de niños y adolescentes

Sedkaoui¹,

Mullet

2016

Univ Psychol

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Sex offenses to children or young adolescents have become a growing public concern. Chemical castration is currently considered as the best available societal response to child sex abuse. It abolishes testosterone secretion, its effects are reversible and side effects are minor. It has been argued that offering convicted sex offenders with the possibility to be treated may be in contradiction with the bioethics principle of autonomy because the person has really no other choice --the alternative is usually a lengthy confinement sentence. In view of this controversy, we explored lay people's and physicians' views regarding the acceptability of chemical castration. Fifty participants (among them five physicians) judged the acceptability of castration in each of 36 scenarios consisting of all combinations of four factors: aggressor's age (21 vs. 41-year old); (b) victim(s)' age (5, 8, or 14-year old); (c) aggressor's psychiatric status (no psychiatric antecedents, suffers from sexual deviation, or recidivist); and (d) family's attitude (hostile to any kind of castration vs. approve castration). Participants' ratings of acceptability were, on the average, very high, and 68% of participants considered that chemical castration was fully justified in all the cases that were shown. A small minority (8%) considered that first time offenders of young adolescents, without psychiatric antecedents, should not be chemically castrated. Another minority position (24%) expressed doubts regarding chemical castration of first time offenders without antecedents but they never strongly opposed it. Implications for bioethics are discussed. RESUMENLos delitos sexuales contra los niños y los adolescentes se han convertido en una creciente preocupación pública. La castración química es considerada actualmente como la mejor respuesta de la sociedad frente al fenómeno del abuso sexual infantil. En este procedimiento se suprime la secreción de testosterona, sus efectos son reversibles y los efectos secundarios son menores. Se ha argumentado que la oferta de los delincuentes sexuales condenados con la posibilidad de ser tratados puede estar en contradicción con el principio bioético de autonomía porque la

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Mapeando las opiniones de los franceses sobre la castración química de delincuentes sexuales que abusan de niños y adolescentes

Sedkaoui¹,

Mullet

2016

Univ Psychol

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“…The third expected position could be called “Depends on Circumstances,” a position frequently observed in previous studies in empirical ethics (e.g., Lhermite, Munoz Sastre, Sorum, & Mullet, 2015). People holding this position would judge ability to make informed decisions as a function of the type of illness and the availability of social support, and possibly as a function of the type of decision to be taken.…”

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“…First, we found several clusters, that is, groups of individuals who held a similar and distinctive set of beliefs about the relation of depression and dementia to capacity to make decisions. This pluralism of views about ethical issues is typical of people in ideologically diverse societies like France (Guedj et al., 2012; Lhermite et al., 2015).…”

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Decision-Making Capacity Among Elderly People: A Mapping of Health Professionals’ and Laypeople’s Views

Lhermite

Sastre

Sorum

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Int J Aging Hum Dev

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The views of laypeople and professionals (nurses, occupational therapists, psychologists, and physicians) on the capacity to make informed decisions of elderly people with depression or dementia were examined. Participants were presented with vignettes created by varying the levels of three factors: (a) the type of decision (e.g., agreeing to surgery), (b) the health problem (e.g., slight depression), and (c) the availability of social support. Through cluster analysis, four different positions were found. Seventeen percent of the participants considered that even persons suffering from slight depression were already quite incapacitated. In contrast, 24% considered that only elderly people suffering from moderate or severe dementia were impaired. The majority of participants (59%) expressed positions that can be considered as pragmatic. Level of impairment was viewed as a function of severity of illness or type of illness. No significant differences were found between health professional and laypeople.

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“…Durante los últimos veinte años se han realizado una serie de estudios empíricos utilizando el marco metodológico de la medición funcional. Estas investigaciones han analizado las posiciones de expertos o no-expertos en relación con cuestiones acuciantes como (a) la comunicación de malas noticias a los pacientes enfermos (Igier et al, 2015); (b) la aceptabilidad de la ruptura de la confidencialidad (Olivari et al, 2011); (c) el racionamiento de tratamientos caros o escasos (Nann et al, 2012); (d) la aceptabilidad del tratamiento involuntario (Lhermite et al, 2015) o de la hospitalización involuntaria (Guedj et al, 2012); (e) la aceptabilidad de las técnicas de reproducción asistida (Muñoz Sastre et al, 2016); (f) la donación de órganos y la trasplantación (Fraux et al, 2020); (g) la cuestión del aborto (Muñoz Sastre et al, 2015), y (g) la aceptabilidad de la experimentación con animales no humanos (Muñoz Sastre et al, 2020). La mayoría de estos estudios se han realizado con muestras de occidentales (Muñoz Sastre & Mullet, 2019), pero algunos de ellos se han llevado a cabo en África Occidental , en América Central (Morales et al, 2010), en América del Sur (Pineda Marín & Mullet, 2020), en la India (Kamble et al, 2012), en Oriente Medio (Ahmed et al, 2010) y en el Sudeste Asiático (Nann et al, 2012).…”

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Medición funcional en el dominio de la ética empírica

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Pajot

Sastre

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Av. Psicol. Latinoam.

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El presente artículo propone un enfoque empírico de la ética derivado de la teoría psicológica del juicio humano propuesta por Norman Anderson. Muestra cómo la metodología de esta teoría —denominada medición funcional— puede utilizarse para caracterizar las diversas posiciones personales que existen en todas las sociedades respecto a los problemas de salud pública. Los principales resultados de tres estudios realizados en tres países diferentes (Guinea, Francia y Colombia) se presentan como ilustración de lo que puede aportar este enfoque. Dichos análisis se centraron en tres problemas deliberadamente muy diferentes: (a) el deber de atender a los pacientes infectados, en caso de una epidemia que ponga en peligro la vida de los cuidadores; (b) la aceptabilidad de la reproducción postmortem, en el caso de los soldados que mueren en combate, y (c) la aceptabilidad del suicidio asistido por un médico.

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French lay people's and health professionals' views regarding the acceptability of involuntary treatment of nursing home residents

Cited by 6 publications

References 26 publications

Mapeando las opiniones de los franceses sobre la castración química de delincuentes sexuales que abusan de niños y adolescentes

Mapeando las opiniones de los franceses sobre la castración química de delincuentes sexuales que abusan de niños y adolescentes

Decision-Making Capacity Among Elderly People: A Mapping of Health Professionals’ and Laypeople’s Views

Medición funcional en el dominio de la ética empírica

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