All Outputs (8)

Shared Decision Making in Psychiatry: Dissolving the Responsibility Problem (2022)
Journal Article
El-Alti, L. (2023). Shared Decision Making in Psychiatry: Dissolving the Responsibility Problem. Health Care Analysis, 31, 65-80. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10728-022-00451-7

Person centered care (PCC) invites ideas of shared responsibility as a direct result of its shared decision making (SDM) process. The intersection of PCC and psychiatric contexts brings about what I refer to as the responsibility problem, which seemi... Read More about Shared Decision Making in Psychiatry: Dissolving the Responsibility Problem.

Caregiver perspectives on patient capacities and institutional pathways to person centered forensic psychiatric care (2022)
Journal Article
El-Alti, L., Sandman, L., & Munthe, C. (2022). Caregiver perspectives on patient capacities and institutional pathways to person centered forensic psychiatric care. PLOS ONE, 17(9), Article e0275205. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275205

The ethical discourse surrounding patients’ agential capacities, vis-à-vis their active participation in shared decision-making (SDM) in forensic psychiatric (FP) contexts, is an unexplored area of inquiry. The aim of this paper is to explore caregiv... Read More about Caregiver perspectives on patient capacities and institutional pathways to person centered forensic psychiatric care.

Confluence and Divergence of Emancipatory Healthcare Ideals and Psychiatric Contextual Challenges (2022)
Thesis
El Alti, L. (2022). Confluence and Divergence of Emancipatory Healthcare Ideals and Psychiatric Contextual Challenges. (Thesis). Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2948473

Person-centered care (PCC) is generally understood to involve shaping healthcare processes, decisions, and plans according to the individual values, preferences, or goals of each patient. This is in contrast to more traditional approaches which provi... Read More about Confluence and Divergence of Emancipatory Healthcare Ideals and Psychiatric Contextual Challenges.

Disputing with patients in person-centered care: Ethical aspects in standard care, pediatrics, psychiatry, and public health (2018)
Journal Article
Munthe, C., El-Alti, L., Hartvigsson, T., & Nijsingh, N. (2018). Disputing with patients in person-centered care: Ethical aspects in standard care, pediatrics, psychiatry, and public health. Journal of Argumentation in Context, 7(2), 231-244. https://doi.org/10.1075/jaic.18022.mun

This article explores ethical aspects of using open argumentation in person-centered care (PCC), where health professionals (HPs) openly criticize or contradict factual claims, assumptions, preferences, or value commitments of patients. We argue that... Read More about Disputing with patients in person-centered care: Ethical aspects in standard care, pediatrics, psychiatry, and public health.

Person Centered Care and Personalized Medicine: Irreconcilable Opposites or Potential Companions? (2017)
Journal Article
El-Alti, L., Sandman, L., & Munthe, C. (2019). Person Centered Care and Personalized Medicine: Irreconcilable Opposites or Potential Companions?. Health Care Analysis, 27(1), 45-59. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10728-017-0347-5

In contrast to standardized guidelines, personalized medicine and person centered care are two notions that have recently developed and are aspiring for more individualized health care for each single patient. While having a similar drive toward indi... Read More about Person Centered Care and Personalized Medicine: Irreconcilable Opposites or Potential Companions?.

The Practice of Research Ethics in Lebanon and Qatar: Perspectives of Researchers on Informed Consent (2017)
Journal Article
Nakkash, R., Qutteina, Y., Nasrallah, C., Wright, K., El-Alti, L., Makhoul, J., & Al-Ali, K. (2017). The Practice of Research Ethics in Lebanon and Qatar: Perspectives of Researchers on Informed Consent. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 12(5), 352-362. https://doi.org/10.1177/1556264617730643

Informed consent requirements for conducting research with human participants are set by institutional review boards (IRBs) following established guidelines. Despite this, researchers continue to face challenges in seeking and obtaining informed cons... Read More about The Practice of Research Ethics in Lebanon and Qatar: Perspectives of Researchers on Informed Consent.

“Protecting” or “Policing”: Academic Researchers’ View of IRBs in an Arab Context (2014)
Journal Article
Makhoul, J., El-Alti, L., Qutteina, Y., Nasrallah, C., Sakr, C., Nakkash, R., & Alali, K. (2014). “Protecting” or “Policing”: Academic Researchers’ View of IRBs in an Arab Context. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 9(5), 25-35. https://doi.org/10.1177/1556264614553170

A recent surge of research universities and human subjects research funding in the Arab world raises concerns about applied research ethics and oversight. In-depth interviews conducted with 52 researchers in Lebanon and Qatar about their research con... Read More about “Protecting” or “Policing”: Academic Researchers’ View of IRBs in an Arab Context.

Rasch Analysis of Lebanese Nurses’ Responses to the EIS Questionnaire (2014)
Journal Article
Clinton, M., Alayan, N., & El-Alti, L. (2014). Rasch Analysis of Lebanese Nurses’ Responses to the EIS Questionnaire. SAGE Open, 4(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244014547182

This study examined the psychometric characteristics of a 32-item modified version of the Ethical Issues Scale (EIS). Data were collected from 59 registered nurses at the American University of Beirut Medical Centre (AUBMC). Data were analyzed using... Read More about Rasch Analysis of Lebanese Nurses’ Responses to the EIS Questionnaire.