Vincent Couture, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Nursing at Université Laval. He teaches ethics applied to nursing and health. He is a regular researcher at the Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec—Université Laval, with a dual affiliation to the axis Population Health and Best Health Practises and the axis Reproductive Health of Mother and Child. His research program revolves around the ethics of care applied to the beginnings of life.
Mapping Ethical Issues Related to Advance Paternal Age
In most societies parental age at birth is increasing. This phenomenon has been well studied in women, but what about men? An increasing number of studies tend to show an association between the father’s advanced age and negative health outcomes for the child. In this context, this research project aims to shed light on the nature of the responsibility of future fathers of advanced age in relation to their reproductive decisions.
Study the Use of Palliative Care During the Perinatal Period
The disclosing of a prenatal genetic diagnosis with a poor prognosis is a particularly demanding situation for future parents. This project seeks to explore the possibility of providing palliative care at the birth of the child. We are more specifically interested in the social, psychological and ethical dimensions associated with this difficult decision-making for future parents.
Explore the Contribution of Arts to Bioethics
How to share the results of bioethics research to the general public? One of the avenues that we are exploring consists in creating hybrid events that mobilize knowledge transfer in bioethics and aesthetic experimentation.
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Long-term care staffs' experience in facilitating the use of videoconferencing by cognitively impaired long-term care residents during the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed-methods study
Journal ArticleBMC Health Serv Res, 24 (1), 2024.
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Une santé à toute épreuve ? Éthique de l’utilisation de l’intelligence artificielle dans le secteur de la santé
Journal ArticleEthique publique, 25 (1), 2023.
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Risk of Bias Mitigation for Vulnerable and Diverse Groups in Community-Based Primary Health Care Artificial Intelligence Models: Protocol for a Rapid Review
Journal ArticleJMIR Res Protoc, 12 , 2023.
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Ethical Implications of Artificial Intelligence in Population Health and the Public's Role in Its Governance: Perspectives From a Citizen and Expert Panel
Journal ArticleJ Med Internet Res, 25 , 2023.
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Assessing facilitating conditions and barriers for innovation implementation in Canadian long-term care homes: a research protocol
Journal ArticleImplement Sci Commun, 3 (1), 2022.
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Quebec population highly supportive of extending Medical Aid in Dying to incapacitated persons and people suffering only from a mental illness: Content analysis of attitudes and representations
Journal ArticleEthics Med Public Health, 21 , 2022.
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Artificial intelligence ethics has a black box problem
Journal ArticleAI Soc, 2022.
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Acceptability of videoconferencing to preserve the contact between cognitively impaired long-term care residents and their family caregivers: A mixed-methods study
Journal ArticleGeriatr Nurs, 48 , 2022.
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The other face of advanced paternal age: a scoping review of its terminological, social, public health, psychological, ethical and regulatory aspects
Journal ArticleHum Reprod Update, 27 (2), 2021.
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Active projects
- Acceptabilité sociale de l’intégration et l’utilisation de mesures rapportées par les patients dans les lacs de données (POOLED) : perspectives d’un panel d’experts, from 2023-02-08 to 2025-03-31
- En zone grise : perspectives de pères sur la paternité tardive, from 2024-06-01 to 2026-05-31
- Ethical issues in perinatal palliative care: a scoping review, from 2024-01-24 to 2024-12-31
- Observatoire international sur les impacts sociétaux de l'intelligence artificielle et du numérique, from 2018-04-01 to 2025-03-31
- Observatoire international sur les impacts sociétaux de l'intelligence artificielle et du numérique (OBVIA) - Renouvellement, from 2023-04-01 to 2028-03-31
Recently finished projects
- Dérives de la conception par don de sperme et impacts sur le parcours de vie, from 2021-06-01 to 2023-05-31
- Pôle d’expertise et de recherche en santé et bien-être des hommes, from 2018-06-01 to 2023-05-31
- Protéger et Engager les populations vulnérables dans le développement des modèles prédictifs en soins de santé primaires pour IA inclusive, diversifiée et équiptable (PREMIA), from 2021-07-01 to 2024-06-30
- Trop vieux pour une fécondation in vitro ? Repères éthiques pour l’établissement d’une limite d’âge masculine à la procréation médicalement assistée, from 2022-04-01 to 2023-03-31
- Une COMmunauté VIrtuelle de Patient•es et citoyen•nes (COMVIP) : un panel inclusif et multigénérationnel pour une utilisation optimale du numérique et de l'IA en santé, from 2020-09-01 to 2023-08-31