When analysing the sub-dimensions of harm avoidance, fatigability/asthenia displayed the strongest correlation with CRP.
UK experts in psychiatry, addictions and pharmacology were asked to rate drugs on three major dimensions of harm: physical harm, potential for dependence and social harms.
This was reduced to any experience of falls to maintain coherency with other items that also do not include dimensions of harm, e.g., medication errors, and because falls in general pose the risk for serious harm and need therefore to be avoided.
In the final dimension of social harm, the components rated were harms to others caused by intoxication; health costs directly resulting from the drug use, including the costs to healthcare and social care systems; and finally, other social harms, such as violent behaviour, neglect of children and financial problems caused by drug use.
Only the dimension of self-harm was extremely low at baseline and stayed low over time.
The role of both ethical principles and empirical information is shown schematically in figure 2. The classical principles of medical ethics [ 25] need to be given more specific content in actual cases – the principles of beneficence and non-harm, for example, only take on real concrete form once the dimensions of benefit and harm have a clear and specific content.
The TCI questionnaire recognizes four dimensions of temperament, namely Harm avoidance (HA), Novelty seeking (NS), Reward Dependence (RD) and Persistence (PE), and three dimensions of character, i.e., Self-directedness (SD), Cooperativeness (C) and Self-transcendence (ST).
Risk perception (beliefs about potential harm) has many dimensions, but in keeping with nearly all theories, we focused on only 2 (12 ): 1) likelihood and 2) severity of harm if no action is taken.
For Ricoeur, it is simply ingredient in what he calls the tragic dimension of action that at times one can harm another precisely by observing some universal norm.
