if lives were saved on only 10% of these occasions, then each would have been saved at a drug cost of £330-670. The range of doses given raises the possibility that naloxone was being titrated to effect resuscitation without provoking withdrawal. If so, recovery needs monitoring to avoid subsequent relapse into overdose. Some casualty departments and ambulance services now recommend giving nalo...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between a history of physical and/or sexual abuse and current suicidality in college-age women. It was hypothesized that abuse history would significantly predict level of suicidality. A secondary hypothesis was that abuse status would predict attitudes about life and death. METHOD Female college students (n = 707) were scree...

BACKGROUND Public attitudes are important in shaping public policy and the political will that determines future service provision. They also help to identify priorities for public education. This paper presents a review and synthesis of published literature on public attitudes to death and dying in the UK from 1990. METHOD The approach to the review was systematic and involved searching for ...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To assess how nurses employed in a comprehensive cancer center feel about death and caring for dying patients and examine any relationships between their attitudes and demographic factors. DESIGN Descriptive quantitative. SETTING A 432-bed comprehensive cancer center in New York, NY. SAMPLE A convenience sample of 355 inpatient and outpatient oncology nurses. METHODS ...

In a letter to the editor of the Mercury News , one reader explained his views on the death penalty as follows: “ I ’ ll vote to abolish the death penalty . . . and not just because it is fi scally imprudent with unsustainable costs versus a life sentence without possibility of parole. More importantly, it ’ s morally wrong. Making us and the state murderers — through exercising the death penal...

Global changes in eating attitudes were examined prospectively across pregnancy and 4 months postpartum in a sample of 90 women. In addition, specific changes in dieting behavior and weight/shape satisfaction were assessed at 4 months postpartum for concurrent and retrospective time points. Measures included the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT) and weight/shape satisfaction in pregnancy and at 4 mon...

Purpose: The knowledge, attitudes and practice among inhabitants of Mto wa Mbu Division was examined to provide objective information on sparganosis infection. Hence, the study was carried out. Methods: The study was conducted among the inhabitants of Mto wa Mbu Division, Monduli District, Tanzania from January to April 2012. Inhabitants were informed about the objective of the study and invite...