background & aim :lack of adherence to prescribed medication is a main concern in medicine especially in chronic diseases. the aim of present study was to determine the effect of supportive text message on the adherence to treatment of depression. methods & materials : this quasi-experimental study was conducted on sixty eligible patients with diagnosis of depression who referred to a psychiatr...

We review three alternative approaches to modelling survey noncontact and refusal: multinomial, sequential and sample selection (bivariate probit) models. We then propose a multilevel extension of the sample selection model to allow for both interviewer effects and dependency between noncontact and refusal rates at the household and interviewer level. All methods are applied and compared in an ...

BACKGROUND Although childhood vaccination programs have been very successful, vaccination coverage in minority groups may be considerably lower than in the general population. In order to increase vaccination coverage in such minority groups involvement of faith-based organizations and religious leaders has been advocated. We assessed the role of religious leaders in promoting acceptance or ref...

BACKGROUND Enucleation (eye removal) is often the only curative treatment for the childhood eye cancer retinoblastoma, yet parental refusal of enucleation commonly contributes to treatment delay and poor survival globally. METHODS Physicians who treat retinoblastoma were surveyed to glean underlying reasons for treatment refusal. RESULTS Refusal rates were higher when less time was spent wi...

School refusal behavior is defined as any child-motivated refusal to attend classes and/or difficulty remaining in classes for an entire day. Although many researchers have focused on older children and adolescents in their samples, few have specifically focused on young children aged 5-9 years (i.e., kindergarten to third grade). In this article, a general description is made of school refusal...

i am delighted to announce completion of the second issue of the new journal of “geopersia”, a product of the new era of replacing the persian language journals with specific english-language ones. our purpose is to provide a journal that offers a multi-disciplinary analysis of issues concerning geology subjects (i.e. sedimentology, stratigraphy, paleontology, petroleum geology, engineering geo...

In this work, it is argued that one of the foundations NiklasLuhmann’s theory social systems, namely has no ontology, would prevent elaboration explanations in sociology. Because a formal-logical foundation, which does not presuppose there are insurmountable obstacles to achieving objective. For reason, valid wonder about merit that, after 20 years, insists on aligning itself with ontological p...

BACKGROUND This study evaluated the utility of immunization registries in identifying vaccine refusals among children. Among refusers, we studied their socioeconomic characteristics and health care utilization patterns. METHODS Medical records were reviewed to validate refusal status in the immunization registries of two health plans. Racial, education, and income characteristics of children ...