Canadian cannabis researcher perspectives on the conduct and sponsorship of scientific research by the for-profit cannabis industry.

There has been considerable financial investment by the for-profit cannabis industry to conduct research on cannabis in Canada. Similar to peer industry counterparts such as the pharmaceutical, alcohol, tobacco, and food industries, there is evidence that for-profit cannabis companies are financially sponsoring research programs and researchers as well as non-financially, such as donating products. However, a large body of research has established that researchers' financial relationships with industries may influence research agendas, outcomes, lead to conflicts of interest, and bias the evidence base. Within a complex, emerging context of legalization, there is limited information on how cannabis researchers negotiate their relationships with the for-profit cannabis industry in Canada. Following a qualitative phenomenological methodology informed by moral experience for bioethics research, we conducted 38 semi-structured interviews with academic researchers, peer researchers, and clinicians with relevant perspectives about Canadian cannabis companies' research activities. We used a codebook approach to thematic analysis which generated three central themes: Navigating Systemic Barriers to Conduct Research; Impressions and Influences; and Guiding Principles for an Ethical Research Process. Our findings suggest that Canadian cannabis researchers tend to be morally ambivalent about cannabis industry sponsorship of research: they are motivated to conduct high quality research and generate evidence for population health benefit, yet they have concerns over the potential for research agenda bias created by these relationships which could be harmful to population health. Participants spoke how they relied heavily on personal values and individual strategies (transparency, value alignment, arms-length association, independence) to determine how they manage cannabis industry relationships. Our findings highlight how the issue of industry-academic relationships is a structural problem, thus individual-level solutions without attention to the relationship itself will only deepen ethical worries about industry-sponsored research.

被引量：- 发表：1970

Women's informal group participation and intimate partner violence in Mwanza, Tanzania: A longitudinal study.

Women's groups have emerged as an essential platform for implementing violence prevention interventions across diverse settings because they can serve as a powerful catalyst for promoting gender equality, empowering women, and providing a safe space for them. Given the limited empirical evidence on the impact of women's informal group participation on male-perpetrated intimate partner violence, this longitudinal study examines how such participation influences women's experiences of physical, emotional, sexual, and economic IPV in Mwanza, Tanzania. Data from four waves of the MAISHA study, which followed up the control groups (n = 1122) of the two MAISHA trials, were analysed. Women aged 18-70 who had been in a relationship within the last 12 months were included. Using mixed effects logistic regression models, we examined the association between women's active participation in religious, ethnic, microcredit, street and support groups and community meetings, with four types of IPV, adjusting for cohabitation status, age and enrolment in previous MAISHA trials. Participants' unique identification number was used as a random effect variable, and dummies for each survey round were used to account for time. The prevalence of religious, ethnic, microcredit, support and street groups, and community meeting participation at baseline were 41.8%, 17.5%, 41.1%, 20.1%, 42.9%, and 20.1%, respectively. Adjusted multivariable models showed that participants who engaged in community meetings reported lower odds of experiencing economic IPV (AOR = 0.68, CI: 0.56-0.82) and higher odds of experiencing emotional IPV (AOR = 1.21, CI: 1.00-1.46). Further, active participants of support groups reported lower odds of experiencing both economic (AOR = 0.77, CI: 0.60-0.99) and sexual IPV (AOR = 0.72, CI: 0.58-0.90). Participants in ethnic groups also reported lower odds of economic IPV (AOR = 0.79, CI: 0.62-1.00). No predictor was associated with physical IPV. This study underscores the potential of informal community group participation to mitigate sexual and economic IPV among women in Mwanza, Tanzania, while also indicating a possible increase in the risk of emotional IPV. It emphasises the necessity for tailored, context-sensitive, and gender-transformative interventions to address power imbalances and restrictive norms effectively. Future research should delve into nuanced measures of group participation, including attendance, meeting frequency and duration, participants' influence within groups, the strength of social ties, and their implications for IPV experiences.

被引量：- 发表：1970

"My children will grow up more healthy than me because of the vaccinations they received": Using the migrant health trajectory model to understand Vietnamese American parents' attitudes towards vaccinations and the U.S. healthcare system.

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Towards a better understanding of inequity and the psychological processes underlying the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status.

被引量：- 发表：1970

A comparison of heat effects on road injury frequency between active travelers and motorized transportation users in six tropical and subtropical cities in Taiwan.

被引量：- 发表：1970