OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES OF SELF-BINDING DIRECTIVES: AN INTERVIEW STUDY WITH MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE USERS AND PROFESSIONALS IN THE NETHERLANDS

Opportunities and challenges of self-binding directives: an interview study with mental health service users and professionals in the Netherlands

Abstract Background Self-binding directives (SBDs) are psychiatric advance directives that include the possibility for service users to consent in advance to compulsory care in future mental health crises.Legal provisions for SBDs exist in the Netherlands since 2008 and were updated in 2020.While ethicists and legal scholars have identified several

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Evaluating the impact of handling and logger attachment on foraging parameters and physiology in southern rockhopper penguins.

Logger technology has revolutionised our knowledge of the behaviour and physiology of free-living animals but handling and logger attachments may have negative effects on the behaviour of the animals and their welfare.We studied southern rockhopper penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome) females during the guard stage in three consecutive breeding seasons (2

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Evaluation of allergenic properties and immunotoxicity tablet dosage form GML-1 (N-benzyl-N-methyl-1-phenylpyrrolo[1,2-a]pyrazin-3-carboxamide)

The study of allergenic properties and immunotoxic effects of the ready-to-use drug form of GML-1 (N-benzyl-N-methyl-1-phenylpyrrolo[1,2-a] pyrazin-3-carboxamide), compounds with high TSPO affinity and pronounced anxiolytic activity, was carried out.The study of allergenic properties and immunotoxicity of GML-1 was performed on male albino guinea p

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