Paul Clay Sorum
Biographic Data
| ID | 352282 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Clay Sorum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul Clay |
| FAMILY NAME | Sorum |
| SIGNATURE | SORUM P C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Albany Medical Center Hospital |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4009-9343 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
End of life decisions in France: Evolution of acceptability over two decades
Implications of extended terminal sedation
Why Patients in Uruguay Agree to Take or Refuse to Take Antibiotics? An Inventory of Motives
Objectives: We explored the motives for why patients in Uruguay take or refuse to take antibiotic drugs. Methods: We had 350 adults complete a 60-item questionnaire with statements referring to reasons for which the person had taken antibiotics in the past, and a 70-item questionnaire with reasons for which the person had sometimes refused to take antibiotics. Results: We found a 4-factor structure of motives for taking antibiotics: Appropriate P…
Patients’ Positions on the Degree of Trust to be Placed in Physicians
Patient-physician relationship is ideally based on mutual trust. Trust usually takes times to build but can quite instantaneously be destroyed as a result of a single action or a single misperception. This study examined the way patients conceptualize the relationship between trust in a physician and perceived competency, honesty and openness, and personal involvement in care. One hundred sixty-seven patients aged 18-85 years were presented with …
French People’s Positions Regarding Same-Sex Couples’ and Singles’ Rights to Assisted Reproductive Technology and Adoption
People's positions regarding social security's health insurance programs: The case of Romania
Assessing hospitalized patients’ quality of life from external indices: The perspectives of lay people and health professionals
What motivates individuals to volunteer in Ebola epidemic response? A structural approach in Guinea
BACKGROUND: The 2014-2016 Ebola epidemic in West Africa placed greater demands on the affected countries' already scarce health workforce. Consequently, governments in the most affected West African countries made appeals for volunteers to join Ebola response programs. Those volunteers played an important yet high-risk role in aiding the victims of the Ebola epidemic and in limiting its spread. However, little is known as to what motivated those …
Why patients want to take or refuse to take antibiotics: An inventory of motives
Although people are generally willing to follow their physician's prescription of antibiotics, a notable proportion of them report adopting behaviors that are beneficial to micro-organisms and, as a result, potentially detrimental to humans
Haitian people's expectations regarding post‐disaster humanitarian aid teams’ actions
The way people at the receiving end of humanitarian assistance perceive this intervention may provide invaluable bottom‐up feedback to improve the quality of the intervention. We analyzed and mapped Haitians’ views regarding international humanitarian aid in cases of natural disaster. Two hundred fifty participants–137 women and 113 men aged 18‐67–who had suffered from the consequences of the earthquake in 2010 were presented with a series of vig…
Decision-Making Capacity Among Elderly People: A Mapping of Health Professionals’ and Laypeople’s Views
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. T…
Mapping French Laypeople’s Views on Nonhuman Animal Experimentation
French positions regarding nonhuman animal experimentation were examined. A total of 163 participants were presented with 72 vignettes depicting an experimental protocol. They were composed according to a five-factor design: (a) the fate of the animal (e.g., was sacrificed for the purpose of further analyses), (b) environment in which the animal was raised, (c) main objective of the experiment (purely theoretical vs. therapeutic), (d) degree of p…
Acceptability of vaccination against HIV: A mapping of Togolese people's positions
In anticipation of a future HIV vaccine, we mapped the different personal positions regarding HIV vaccination of people in Togo. In early 2014, 363 adults indicated their willingness to receive a future HIV vaccine under different conditions varying as a function of five factors: perceived susceptibility to HIV, vaccine effectiveness, perceived severity of AIDS, vaccine cost, and family's influence. We found five qualitatively different positions…
Allocation of antiretroviral drugs to HIV-infected patients in Togo: Perspectives of people living with HIV and healthcare providers
AIM: To explore the way people living with HIV and healthcare providers in Togo judge the priority of HIV-infected patients regarding the allocation of antiretroviral drugs. METHOD: From June to September 2015, 200 adults living with HIV and 121 healthcare providers living in Togo were recruited for the study. They were presented with stories of a few lines depicting the situation of an HIV-infected patient and were instructed to judge the extent…
Misconceptions about Ebola virus disease among lay people in Guinea: Lessons for community education
Why people in Benin are reluctant to undergo amputations? A systematic inventory of motives
We made an inventory of the reasons for inhabitants of Benin are reluctant to undergo the amputation of a limb. A robust six-factor structure of motives was found: Change in Appearance, Lack of Information, Fear of Hospitals and Medical Staff, Loss of Others' Consideration and Affection, Denial of Necessity, and Spiritual and Religious Concerns. The first three motives were the most strongly endorsed. To improve people's timely acceptance, it is …
Prohibition, Regulation or Free Market: A Mapping of Colombian People's Perspectives Regarding National Drug Policies
French lay people's and health professionals' views regarding the acceptability of involuntary treatment of nursing home residents
Telling children their mother is seriously ill or dying: Mapping French people's views
BACKGROUND: What to tell children when their mother's life is seriously endangered is a largely unstudied issue. METHODS: We had 255 lay persons in France judge the appropriateness of the parents' behaviour in 48 scenarios of parents dealing with this problem. The scenarios comprised according to a four within-subject orthogonal design: child's age (4, 6, 8 or 10 years), severity of disease (lethal or worrisome but curable), child's concern or no…
Addictive Substances, Users’ Health, and the Government’s Perceived Responsibility: French People’s Perspective
How people in Benin assess a couple’s risk of having a baby with sickle cell disease
Judging patients' pain from external cues
Nurses, nurse's aides, and physicians were presented with vignettes describing elderly patients and were asked to assess their level of pain from four external cues (facial expression, verbalizations, avoidance of movements and positions, and interpersonal contact) in three conditions: when the illness was not known, when it was known to be arthritis, and when it was known to be cancer. For all health caregivers, the most important cue for judgin…
French People's Positions Regarding National Policies About Illicit Drugs: A Preliminary Study
Togolese lay people's and health professionals’ views about the acceptability of physician-assisted suicide
AIM: To study the views on the acceptability of physician-assisted-suicide (PAS) of lay people and health professionals in an African country, Togo. METHOD: In February-June 2012, 312 lay people and 198 health professionals (75 physicians, 60 nurses and 63 health counsellors) in Togo judged the acceptability of PAS in 36 concrete scenarios composed of all combinations of four factors: (a) the patient's age, (b) the level of incurability of the il…
Minors’ and adults’ views about confidentiality
The views of minors and adults concerning breaking confidentiality about illicit drug consumption were examined and compared. Ninety-seven adolescents aged 15–16 (minors), 76 adolescents aged 17–18 (quasi-adults), and 88 adults aged 19–75 were presented with a series of 64 vignettes of a psychologist told by her young male client that he is using illicit drugs. They were composed according to a six within-subject factor design: the client’s age, …
Under what conditions is euthanasia acceptable to lay people and health professionals
French People's Positions Regarding National Policies About Illicit Drugs: A Preliminary Study
Prohibition, Regulation or Free Market: A Mapping of Colombian People's Perspectives Regarding National Drug Policies
Acceptability of vaccination against HIV: A mapping of Togolese people's positions
In anticipation of a future HIV vaccine, we mapped the different personal positions regarding HIV vaccination of people in Togo. In early 2014, 363 adults indicated their willingness to receive a future HIV vaccine under different conditions varying as a function of five factors: perceived susceptibility to HIV, vaccine effectiveness, perceived severity of AIDS, vaccine cost, and family's influence. We found five qualitatively different positions…
Judging patients' pain from external cues
Nurses, nurse's aides, and physicians were presented with vignettes describing elderly patients and were asked to assess their level of pain from four external cues (facial expression, verbalizations, avoidance of movements and positions, and interpersonal contact) in three conditions: when the illness was not known, when it was known to be arthritis, and when it was known to be cancer. For all health caregivers, the most important cue for judgin…
The Acceptability of Ending a Patient's Life: A France–Portugal–Spain Comparison
The views of French, Portuguese, and Spanish people on end-of-life decisions were compared. Two hundred seventy-seven adults from Barcelona, Oporto, and Toulouse judged the acceptability of life-ending procedures in 42 scenarios composed of all combinations of 3 factors: the patient's age (30 or 80 years), the patient's life expectancy (days, weeks, or months), and the type of procedure (suicide, suicide assisted by the physician, euthanasia by t…
Acceptability for French People of Phisician-Assited Suicide
Our aim was to understand better how people judge the acceptability of physician-assisted suicide (PAS). We found that, for people in France of all ages and for elderly people with life-threatening illnesses, acceptability is an additive combination of the number of requests for PAS, the patient's age, the amount of physical suffering, and the degree of curability of the illness, not only when judging for hypothetical patients, but also for their…
Under what conditions is euthanasia acceptable to lay people and health professionals
Eliciting Utilities Using Functional Methodology: People’s Disutilities for the Adverse Outcomes of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
Emergency physicians’ pain judgments: Cluster analyses on scenarios of acute abdominal pain
Breaking Patient Confidentiality: Comparing Chilean and French Viewpoints Regarding the Conditions of its Acceptability
The study examined the conditions under which lay people and health professionals living in Chile find it acceptable for a physician to break confidentiality to protect the wife of a patient with a sexually transmitted disease (STD). One hundred sixty-nine lay persons, 10 physicians, 17 psychologists, and 11 paramedical professionals indicated the acceptability of breaking confidentiality in 48 scenarios. The scenarios were all possible combinati…
Breaking Bad News: The Patient's Viewpoint
The objective of this study was to ascertain how patients judge the acceptability of physicians' communication of bad news. Two hundred forty-five adults, who had in the past received bad medical news, indicated the acceptability of physicians' conduct in 48 vignettes of giving bad news to patients. Vignettes were all combinations of five factors: level of bad news (infection with hepatitis C, cirrhosis of the liver, or liver cancer); request or …
Lay people's and health professionals’ views about breaking bad news to children
BACKGROUND: Bad health news is difficult to communicate, especially when parents must give bad news to their children. METHODS: We had 170 lay persons, 33 nurses and six physicians in Toulouse, France, judge the appropriateness of the parents' behaviour in 64 scenarios of parents dealing with this problem. The scenarios were composed according to a four within-subject orthogonal design: child's age (4, 6, 8 or 10), severity of disease (lethal or …
Cambodian Patients' and Health Professionals' Views Regarding the Allocation of Antiretroviral Drugs
The way Cambodian patients and health professionals judge the priority of HIV-infected patients in relation to the allocation of antiretroviral drugs was examined. Participants were either HIV-infected patients attending the HIV/AIDS Care and Support Centre for People Living with HIV/AIDS in Phnom Penh (29 females and 21 males) or members of the staff (9 physicians, 6 pharmacists and 15 health counsellors and health educators). They were presente…
Young Indians' Views of the Acceptability of Physician-Assisted Suicide
The acceptability by people in India of physician-assisted suicide was examined. Two hundred ninety-three Indian university students judged acceptability of PAS in 36 scenarios composed of all combinations of four factors: (a) the patient's age, (b) the level of incurability of the illness, (c) the type of suffering, and (d) the extent to which the patient requests a life-ending procedure. Three clusters of participants were found. For 29%, PAS w…
Togolese lay people's and health professionals’ views about the acceptability of physician-assisted suicide
AIM: To study the views on the acceptability of physician-assisted-suicide (PAS) of lay people and health professionals in an African country, Togo. METHOD: In February-June 2012, 312 lay people and 198 health professionals (75 physicians, 60 nurses and 63 health counsellors) in Togo judged the acceptability of PAS in 36 concrete scenarios composed of all combinations of four factors: (a) the patient's age, (b) the level of incurability of the il…
Minors’ and adults’ views about confidentiality
The views of minors and adults concerning breaking confidentiality about illicit drug consumption were examined and compared. Ninety-seven adolescents aged 15–16 (minors), 76 adolescents aged 17–18 (quasi-adults), and 88 adults aged 19–75 were presented with a series of 64 vignettes of a psychologist told by her young male client that he is using illicit drugs. They were composed according to a six within-subject factor design: the client’s age, …
The Acceptability of Ending a Patient's Life: A France–Portugal–Spain Comparison
The views of French, Portuguese, and Spanish people on end-of-life decisions were compared. Two hundred seventy-seven adults from Barcelona, Oporto, and Toulouse judged the acceptability of life-ending procedures in 42 scenarios composed of all combinations of 3 factors: the patient's age (30 or 80 years), the patient's life expectancy (days, weeks, or months), and the type of procedure (suicide, suicide assisted by the physician, euthanasia by t…
How people in Benin assess a couple’s risk of having a baby with sickle cell disease
Judging patients' pain from external cues
Nurses, nurse's aides, and physicians were presented with vignettes describing elderly patients and were asked to assess their level of pain from four external cues (facial expression, verbalizations, avoidance of movements and positions, and interpersonal contact) in three conditions: when the illness was not known, when it was known to be arthritis, and when it was known to be cancer. For all health caregivers, the most important cue for judgin…
French People's Positions Regarding National Policies About Illicit Drugs: A Preliminary Study
French lay people's and health professionals' views regarding the acceptability of involuntary treatment of nursing home residents
Telling children their mother is seriously ill or dying: Mapping French people's views
BACKGROUND: What to tell children when their mother's life is seriously endangered is a largely unstudied issue. METHODS: We had 255 lay persons in France judge the appropriateness of the parents' behaviour in 48 scenarios of parents dealing with this problem. The scenarios comprised according to a four within-subject orthogonal design: child's age (4, 6, 8 or 10 years), severity of disease (lethal or worrisome but curable), child's concern or no…
Addictive Substances, Users’ Health, and the Government’s Perceived Responsibility: French People’s Perspective
Misconceptions about Ebola virus disease among lay people in Guinea: Lessons for community education
Why people in Benin are reluctant to undergo amputations? A systematic inventory of motives
We made an inventory of the reasons for inhabitants of Benin are reluctant to undergo the amputation of a limb. A robust six-factor structure of motives was found: Change in Appearance, Lack of Information, Fear of Hospitals and Medical Staff, Loss of Others' Consideration and Affection, Denial of Necessity, and Spiritual and Religious Concerns. The first three motives were the most strongly endorsed. To improve people's timely acceptance, it is …
Prohibition, Regulation or Free Market: A Mapping of Colombian People's Perspectives Regarding National Drug Policies
Allocation of antiretroviral drugs to HIV-infected patients in Togo: Perspectives of people living with HIV and healthcare providers
AIM: To explore the way people living with HIV and healthcare providers in Togo judge the priority of HIV-infected patients regarding the allocation of antiretroviral drugs. METHOD: From June to September 2015, 200 adults living with HIV and 121 healthcare providers living in Togo were recruited for the study. They were presented with stories of a few lines depicting the situation of an HIV-infected patient and were instructed to judge the extent…
Haitian people's expectations regarding post‐disaster humanitarian aid teams’ actions
The way people at the receiving end of humanitarian assistance perceive this intervention may provide invaluable bottom‐up feedback to improve the quality of the intervention. We analyzed and mapped Haitians’ views regarding international humanitarian aid in cases of natural disaster. Two hundred fifty participants–137 women and 113 men aged 18‐67–who had suffered from the consequences of the earthquake in 2010 were presented with a series of vig…
Decision-Making Capacity Among Elderly People: A Mapping of Health Professionals’ and Laypeople’s Views
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. T…
Mapping French Laypeople’s Views on Nonhuman Animal Experimentation
French positions regarding nonhuman animal experimentation were examined. A total of 163 participants were presented with 72 vignettes depicting an experimental protocol. They were composed according to a five-factor design: (a) the fate of the animal (e.g., was sacrificed for the purpose of further analyses), (b) environment in which the animal was raised, (c) main objective of the experiment (purely theoretical vs. therapeutic), (d) degree of p…
Medicine (30 works) · Psychology (21 works) · Family medicine (13 works) · Nursing (13 works) · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (10 works) · Psychiatry (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Health care (8 works)