BACKGROUND The Cohort Multiple Randomised Controlled Trial (cmRCT) is a newly proposed pragmatic trial design; recently several cmRCT have been initiated. This study tests the unresolved question of whether differential refusal in the intervention arm leads to bias or loss of statistical power and how to deal with this. METHODS We conduct simulations evaluating a hypothetical cluster cmRCT in...

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RESULTS: 16.7% TB patients have not received any assistance when diagnosed with TB and 8.4% were treated badly by a member of the family or close friends because of the disease, consequences ranging from living the patient completely, refusal to talk or telling other people that the person is infected. An odd for such behavior were higher if the patient is male, married, have no formal educatio...

This paper studies the effects of partner selection on cooperation in an artificial ecol ogy. Agents, represented by finite automata, interact with each other through an iterated prisoner's dilemma (IPD) game with the added feature th-at players choose and refuse potential game partners on the basis of continually updated expected payoffs. Analytical studies reveal that the subtle interplay bet...

Abstract Introduction In France in 2019 the level of abortion is highest for thirty years. Between 2010 and 2013, use oral contraception fell from 50% to 41% reach 32% 2018 (Women aged 15 49) Hormone phobia often cited when woman refuses œstrogen-progestins, but morning after pill continues with one million "levonorgestrel 1,5 mg" sold each year France. Remember this contains times more levonor...

objective: an abrupt refusal by the infant to breastfeed is often called “nursing strike”. in fact a common reason for cessation of nursing is infant’s refusal to breast feed. this problem can often be overcome. this paper has aimed to identify the causes of “breast feeding refusal” or “nursing strike” in 6 month old infants visiting the east tehran health center for their scheduled vaccination...