OBJECTIVE We incorporated selected items from several existing instruments to create a comprehensive multifactorial instrument to measure problematic eating behaviors in young children and to examine the prevalences and correlates of these behaviors. METHOD A community sample of young mothers (N = 93) completed the inventory of problematic eating behaviors for their 36-month-old children. R...

Social network analysis is now widely used to investigate the dynamics of infectious disease spread. Vaccination dramatically disrupts disease transmission on a contact network, and indeed, high vaccination rates can potentially halt disease transmission altogether. Here, we build on mounting evidence that health behaviors - such as vaccination, and refusal thereof - can spread across social ne...

this study aimed to examine cross-cultural differences in performing refusal of requests between persian native speakers (pnss) and english native speakers (enss) in terms of the frequency of the semantic formulas. also examined in this study was whether persian efl learners would transfer their l1 refusal patterns into the l2, and if there would be a relation between their proficiency level an...

Photo 1. Rhionaeschna multicolor adult. The left panel shows a male perched near the water body. Males spend most of time on flight, but they land for short times to rest or eat prey. right female Females rarely perch as it will expose them harassment. They typically after escape credit: Hayat Mahdjoub. 2. Hide and seek in reproductive sites multicolor. hovering its territory searching females ...

<div><p>Penelitian dilakukan berdasarkan fenomena yang muncul pada peserta didik SMKN 1 Jatirejo, Mojokerto, yaitu dengan permasalahan perilaku <em>school refusal</em>. Tujuan penelitian ini agar mengetahui efektivitas pendekatan <em>cognitive behavior therapy</em> (CBT) untuk mereduksi Rancangan dipai adalah kuantitatif jenis penilitian <em>single subj...

he topic of vaccine refusal has received worldwide attention in recent years. Vaccine T attitudes span a continuum from complete acceptance to complete rejection. Vaccine refusal (rejection of all vaccines) is at the extreme end, whereas vaccine-hesitant individuals are a more heterogeneous group, with some opting to fully vaccinate despite substantial concerns while others are more selective. ...

Research outlets are increasingly adopting open data policies as a requisite for publication, including studies with human subjects data. We investigated whether open data policies influence participants' rate of consent by randomly assigning participants to view consent forms with and without discussion of open data policies. No participants declined to participate, regardless of condition, no...

BACKGROUND In any country, part of the population is sceptical about the utility of vaccination. To develop successful vaccination programmes, it is important to study and understand the defining characteristics of vaccine sceptics. Research till now mainly focused either on the underlying motives of vaccine refusal, or on socio-demographic differences between vaccine sceptics and non-sceptics....