Category: Research Articles
October 04, 2015
Everyday experience shows that there is a commonality between spirituality and medical practice. A text message I received from a friend recently read, "Please pray for me. I've been getting a mysterious headache for some days now. I will be seeing the doctor today." This clearly speaks of a rela...
Benson O Igboin
October 04, 2015
Ethical dilemmas are inevitable during psychotherapeutic interactions, and these complexities and challenges may be magnified during the training phase. The experience of ethical dilemmas in the arena of therapy and the methods of resolving these dilemmas were examined among 35 clinical psycholog...
Poornima Bhola, Ananya Sinha, Suruchi Sonkar, Ahalya Raguram
October 04, 2015
Objective: The disclosure of bad news is one of the most difficult tasks of a physician. This study explores how physicians prefer to disclose bad news to patients with acute coronary disease in emergency centres in Iran, and to their families.
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Alireza Majidi, Afshin Amini, Masoumeh Tahmasebi
October 04, 2015
It is difficult to determine the real incidence of medical errors due to the lack of a precise definition of errors, as well as the failure to report them under certain circumstances. We carried out a cross- sectional study in Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Iran in 2013. The participants ...
Habibeh Ahmadipour, Mortazavi Nahid
April 24, 2015
Medical research, from clinical trials to novel research on stored samples, is growing rapidly in India. Ethical regulations largely reflect standard international guidelines and the norms of "good clinical practice". Through in-depth interviews, this study aimed to explore the perceptions, motiv...
Manjulika Vaz, Mario Vaz, K Srinivasan
April 24, 2015
It was in the early 1990s that an appeal was made, both in India and globally, for access to palliative care to be treated as a human rights issue. Over the past few years, India has witnessed robust advocacy efforts which push for the consideration of palliative care and pain management as a hum...
Sunita VS Bandewar
April 24, 2015
In the course of our professional experience, we have seen that many medical students plagiarise. We hypothesised that they do so out of ignorance and that they require formal education on the subject. With this objective in mind, we conducted a teaching session on issues related to plagiarism. A...
Joe Varghese, Molly Jacob
April 24, 2015
Infertility is medically defined as one year of unprotected intercourse that does not result in pregnancy. Infertility is a noticeable medical problem in Iran, and about a quarter of Iranian couples experience primary infertility at some point in their lives. Since having children is a basic soci...
Ehsan Shamsi Gooshki, Neda Allahbedashti
July 03, 2015
Cross-system practice is widely prevalent in Indian settings. The recent policy decisions of the Government of India and the legalisation of cross-system practice in various states have brought this issue into the limelight once again. We aim to critically evaluate this issue from the philosophic...
Suresh Bada Math, Sydney Moirangthem, C Naveen Kumar
December 09, 2014
Introduction: Section 5(ii) of The Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (HMA) states that under certain circumstances, mental illness is accepted as a ground for the annulment of marriage, while Section 13(1) (iii) states that mental illness is a ground for divorce. There is little data on h...
Soumitra Pathare, Renuka Nardodkar, Laura Shields, Joske FG Bunders, Jaya Sagade