6036 Background: Oral oncolytic agents are an increasingly important component of cancer therapy. Adherence with therapy begins with filling the prescription in a timely manner. Little is known of the factors associated with abandonment of oral oncolytics at the initial or subsequent prescription. METHODS This cross-sectional study analyzed a nationally representative pharmacy claims database...

OBJECTIVE: to describe abandonment rates according to sociodemographic, clinical and epidemiological characteristics of new tuberculosis cases being treated in Pernambuco State, Brazil. METHODS: this is a descriptive ecological study using data from the Information System for Notifiable Diseases from 2001 to 2014; the abandonment rate was calculated by the Regional Administration on Health (G...

BACKGROUND Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a common psychiatric disorder that is often linked to early stressors. One particularly salient feature of the disorder is fear of abandonment. This pilot study was conducted to measure neural correlates of memories of abandonment in women with and without BPD. METHODS Twenty women with a history of childhood sexual abuse underwent measureme...

In consumption studies, very little attention has been focused on investigating abandonment and, more specifically, its symbolic dimension. The present study aims to investigate how meanings are created and negotiated through the abandonment of cigarettes. This study used a qualitative methodology to collect and analyze the data generated by one-on-one semi-structured in-depth interviews with 1...

BACKGROUND Treatment refusal and abandonment are common causes of treatment failure in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in many developing countries. In most studies reasons for abandonment were based on the opinion of health-care providers (HCP), very few studies have focused on the parental point-of-view. Aims of the study were to analyze the parents' reasons of abandonment and to...

This paper examines the root causes of Knowledge Management (KM) project abandonment. The authors use root cause analysis to identify the causes of KM project abandonment in five well-documented cases of KM drawn from the literature. The findings are synthesized into a Cause-Effect Diagram (CED), culminating in a causal model of KM project abandonment. The model identifies three major categorie...

BACKGROUND Men in their roles as fathers, husbands, community and religious leaders may play a pivotal part in the continuation of female genital mutilation (FGM). However, the research on their views of FGM and their potential role in its abandonment are not well described. METHODS We undertook a systematic review of all publications between 2004 and 2014 that explored men's attitudes, belie...

Land abandonment is common in the Mediterranean Basin, a global biodiversity hotspot, but little is known about its impacts on biodiversity. To upscale existing case-study insights to the Pan-Mediterranean level, we conducted a meta-analysis of the effects of land abandonment on plant and animal species richness and abundance in agroforestry, arable land, pastures, and permanent crops of the Me...