The attrition rate in nurse anesthesia educational programs is of interest to educators and the CRNA profession as an important outcome of the educational process. This study reports the beliefs of program directors about the rate of and reasons for attrition in the cohort graduating in 2005. A survey tool was distributed online to all 101 nurse anesthesia educational program directors. Eight p...

Given small sample sizes, loss of animals in preclinical experiments can dramatically alter results. However, effects of attrition on distortion of results are unknown. We used a simulation study to analyze the effects of random and biased attrition. As expected, random loss of samples decreased statistical power, but biased removal, including that of outliers, dramatically increased probabilit...

Private Higher Learning Institutions (PHLI) are concerned about student attrition because the cost related to the delivery of education is sensitive to the student enrolment. While mentoring is a useful approach for attrition control, such systems are often not well established in PHLI due to high turnover of lecturers who play the role of mentors and are also attributed to weak institutional f...

OBJECTIVE The relationship between food addiction (FA) and weight and attrition outcomes in overweight and obese adults participating in weight loss interventions were prospectively examined in this study. DESIGN AND METHODS Participants were 178 adults (51.2 ± 11.7 y, 36.1 ± 4.8 kg/m(2) ) in one of two outpatient weight loss treatment programs for approximately 6 months. The Yale Food Addict...

Most empirical teacher attrition research focuses on estimating the effect of either the alternate occupation opportunities or the teacher work environment on teacher attrition. In this paper, we use non-teaching wages of former teachers to estimate the determinants of teacher attrition, including the wage differential between teaching and non-teaching occupations, as well as the teacher work e...

INTRODUCTION The shortage and maldistribution of health care workers in sub-Saharan Africa is a major concern for rural health facilities. Rural areas have 63% of sub-Saharan Africa population but only 37% of its doctors. Although attrition of health care workers is implicated in the human resources for health crisis in the rural settings, few studies report attrition rates and risk factors for...

INTRODUCTION Ethiopia has experienced rapid expansion of antiretroviral therapy (ART). However, as long-term retention in ART therapy is key for ART effectiveness, determinants of attrition need to be identified so appropriate interventions can be designed. METHODS We used data from the 'Cohort of African people Starting Antiretroviral therapy' (CASA) project, a prospective study of a cohort ...

OBJECTIVE Randomised controlled trials evaluating perinatal home-visiting programs are frequently confronted with the problem of high attrition rates. The aim of the present study is to identify predictors of study attrition in a trial evaluating a perinatal home-visiting program in France. MATERIALS AND METHODS CAPEDP is a French randomized trial comparing a perinatal home-visiting program u...

Information systems (IS) outsourcing has grown as a major business phenomenon, and widely accepted as a business tool. Software outsourcing companies provide expertise, knowledge and capabilities to their clients by taking up the projects both onsite and offsite. These companies face numerous challenges including attrition of project members. Attrition is a major challenge experienced by the ou...

INTRODUCTION Attrition in pediatric weight management is a substantial problem. This study examined factors associated with short- and long-term attrition from a lifestyle and behavioral intervention for parents of children with overweight or obesity. METHOD Fifty-two families with children ages 6 to 12 years old and body mass index at or above the 85th percentile participated in a randomized...