objective: this study aimed to evaluate the non-compliance rate in patients with bipolar i disorder (bid). methods: the patients admitted to iran psychiatric hospital who were diagnosed as a case of the first episode mania of bipolar i disorder (dsm-iv-tr) by 2 psychiatrists followed by one of them in a longitudinal, prospective and naturalistic study. in the follow-up early non-compliance/irre...

The study aims to explore the potentially influential factors affecting women's decision to accept/decline participation in surgical randomised trial using a novel acceptance/refusal questionnaire (ARQ). All women who were eligible to participate in SIMS-RCT were asked to complete the relevant section (acceptance/refusal) of the ARQ. Women reported its degree of relevance for their decision on ...

OBJECTIVE To test whether higher levels of general competence are linked to more frequent use of refusal assertiveness that is in turn related to less subsequent smoking among inner city adolescents. METHODS Longitudinal study conducted during three year middle school or junior high school period. A sample of 1459 students attending 22 middle (ages 11-14 years) and junior high (ages 12-15 yea...

Methods of calculation of thermal processes of the isolating materials are considered, in problems of nondestructive diagnostics of the main and distributive power stations. Theoretical justification of calculation of thermal processes of the multilayered isolating structure was given. On the basis of the analysis of results of operation, service life, physical processes of "ageing" and use of ...

A current scenario to explain much of the atmospheric CO2 increase during the Glacial to Holocene climate transition requires the outgassing of a deep, old oceanic CO2 reservoir thought to be located in the Southern Ocean. In this scenario, CO2-rich and 14C-depleted subsurface Antarctic-sourced water, ventilates the thermocline where it is purged to the atmosphere in the equatorial regions, a v...

Parental refusal of a recommended treatment is not an uncommon scenario in the neonatal intensive care unit. These refusals may be based upon the parents' perceptions of their child's projected quality of life. The inherent subjectivity of quality of life assessments, however, can exacerbate disagreement between parents and healthcare providers. We present a case of parental refusal of surgical...

OBJECTIVE To present food refusal in old age as a means of attempting to control the outcome of intergenerational family conflicts. METHOD Two cases are described. RESULTS Food refusal does not necessarily arise in the context of a classical eating disorder but may represent a form of protest, or hunger strike. DISCUSSION Food refusal is seen as distinct from a pure anorectic pattern of b...

A shared information system is expected to comply with the following potentially conflicting requirements. On the one side it should provide useful answers to arbitrary queries, while on the other side it should preserve certain secrets according to a security policy. We study and compare two previously suggested approaches to meet these requirements, namely refusal of statements and lying . Th...