The feeding behaviors of two children who maintained failure to thrive diagnoses and displayed food refusal are assessed in their homes. Descriptive assessments are used to identify schedules of consequence provided by each child's care providers for bite acceptance and food refusal behaviors. Assessments reveal rich schedules of praise and access to social interaction and preferred activities ...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Self-efficacy beliefs and outcome expectancies are central to Social Cognitive Theory (SCT). Alcohol studies demonstrate the theoretical and clinical utility of applying both SCT constructs. This study examined the relationship between refusal self-efficacy and outcome expectancies in a sample of cannabis users, and tested formal mediational models. DESIGN Patients referre...

abstract background: better control of blood sugar and reduction of diabetes complications through insulin therapy could convince people to choose this method. however, patients might refuse insulin therapy due to its painful injection, limitations in daily activities, and hypoglycemia. thus, insulin therapy could have both positive and negative effects on patients’ quality of life (qol). there...

BACKGROUND The incidence of lung cancer is increasing with longer life expectancy. Refusal of active treatment for cancer is prone to cause patients to experience more severe symptoms and shorten survival. The purpose of this study was to define the factors related to refusal or abandonment of active therapy in lung cancer. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the data of 617 patients from med...

: The literature about the factors associated with cancer treatment refusal, especially by older patients is scarce. Therefore, this study aimed to identify predictive refusal cancer. A systematic review was conducted using three databases, Medline, Web of Science, and Scopus key concepts, “refusal treatment” “cancer” “decision making” “elderly” or “aged”. search took place in July 2020 it incl...

An advance directive is a form of ‘living will’, which outlines the treatment desired when an individual lacks the capacity to make a decision of his own. This is called a living will because it is meant to operate whilst the maker is alive, albeit incapacitated. In view of the increasing treatment interventions now available, there is growing recognition that an individual has the right to ref...