Assessing treatment acceptance: The abbreviated acceptability rating profile

1992 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth J. Tarnowski ◽  
Susan J. Simonian
Keyword(s):  
Acceptability Rating ◽  
Treatment Acceptance

scholarly journals Exploring Factors Explaining Treatment Acceptance in Patients Suffering from a Chronic Disease

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (9) ◽  
pp. A402
Author(s):  
S Wiederkehr ◽  
E de Bock ◽  
M Chekroun ◽  
B Arnould
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Disease ◽  
Treatment Acceptance

Someone to live for: social well-being, parenthood status, and decision-making in oncology.

1995 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 1255-1264 ◽  
Author(s):  
S B Yellen ◽  
D F Cella
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Therapy ◽  
Marital Status ◽  
Advanced Disease ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Treatment Preferences ◽  
Aggressive Treatment ◽  
Switch Point ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Treatment Acceptance ◽  
At Home

PURPOSE Little is known about the influence of social factors on treatment preferences and desire for aggressive cancer therapy. The present study assessed subjective and objective social indicators in patient preferences for treatment. METHODS Cancer patients (N = 296) with diverse diagnoses and stages read sets of hypothetical vignettes describing patients with early-stage and advanced disease. In the first set, patients made decisions about treatment acceptance given varying levels of either increasing cure or extending survival. In the second set, the point at which patients shifted preferences from mild to severe treatment to improve likelihood of 1-year survival (switch point) was the dependent measure. We assessed the impact of quality-of-life (QL) domains measured by the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General (FACT-G), having children, marital status, and living arrangements on treatment preferences and switch points. RESULTS The Social Well-Being (SWB) subscale of the FACT-G predicted both treatment acceptance (P = .007) and switch point (P = .043) in the advanced-disease vignettes, with lower SWB associated with less aggressive preferences. Children living at home was likewise associated with more aggressive intent both in treatment preferences (P = .003, advanced-disease vignette) and switch point (P < .001 and P = .001 for early- and advanced-disease vignettes, respectively). Living with others predicted more aggressive intent in the advanced-disease vignette (P = .03). Marital status did not predict either treatment acceptance or switch point. CONCLUSION Positive social well-being, as well as having children living at home, predicted patient willingness to accept aggressive treatment. Willingness to receive aggressive treatment may explain or mediate previously reported salutory effects of social support on cancer outcomes.

Psycholinguistic and corpus-linguistic evidence for L2 constructions

2009 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 163-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Th. Gries ◽  
Stefanie Wulff
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Short Distance ◽  
Priming Effect ◽  
Sentence Completion ◽  
Priming Effects ◽  
Corpus Linguistic ◽  
Foreign Language Learners ◽  
Linguistic Evidence ◽  
Acceptability Rating

In Construction Grammar, highly frequent syntactic configurations are assumed to be stored as symbolic units in the mental lexicon alongside words. Considering the example of gerund and infinitival complement constructions in English (She tried rocking the baby vs. She tried to rock the baby), this study combines corpus-linguistic and experimental evidence to investigate the question whether these patterns are also stored as constructions by German foreign language learners of English. In a corpus analysis based on 3,343 instances of the two constructions from the British component of the International Corpus of English, a distinctive collexeme analysis was computed to identify the verbs that distinguish best between the two constructions; these verbs were used as experimental stimuli in a sentence completion experiment and a sentence acceptability rating experiment. Two kinds of short-distance priming effects were investigated in the completion data: we checked how often subjects produced an ing-/to-/’other’-construction after having rated an ing- or to-construction (rating-to-production priming), and how often they produced an ing-/to-/’other’-construction when they had produced and ing- or to-construction in the directly preceding completion (production-to-production priming). Furthermore, we considered the proportion of to-completions before a completion in the questionnaire as a measure of a within-subject accumulative priming effect. We found no rating-to-production priming effects in the expected direction, but a weak effect in the opposite direction; short-distance production-to-production priming effects from ing to ing and from ‘other’ and to to to, and, on the whole at least, a suggestive accumulative production-to-production priming effect for both constructions. In the rating task, we found that subjects rate sentences better when the sentential structure is compatible with the main verb’s collexemic distinctiveness.

scholarly journals Effect of Substitution of Rice Flour with Quinoa Flour on the Chemical-Physical, Nutritional, Volatile and Sensory Parameters of Gluten-Free Ladyfinger Biscuits

Foods ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 808 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michela Cannas ◽  
Simone Pulina ◽  
Paola Conte ◽  
Alessandra Del Caro ◽  
Pietro Paolo Urgeghe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Volatile Compounds ◽  
Substitution Rate ◽  
Rice Flour ◽  
Consumer Acceptability ◽  
Activity Levels ◽  
Gluten Free ◽  
Nutritional Profile ◽  
Acceptability Rating ◽  
Sensory Parameters ◽  
Quinoa Flour

The present study investigates the effect of partial or total substitution of rice flour (RF) with quinoa flour (QF) (at 25%, 50%, 75% and 100%) on the chemical-physical, nutritional, and sensory characteristics, as well as the volatile compounds, of ladyfinger biscuits. All quinoa-based formulations positively affected the crust colour, endowing it with lower ‘lightness’ and higher ‘redness’ values, giving the biscuits a more appealing crust colour. Biscuits with higher percentages of QF also had better structure, as they were softer. The substitution of RF with QF significantly improved the nutritional profile of the biscuits, as a result of the increase in protein, lipid, ash, total soluble (SP) and insoluble polyphenol (IP), flavonoid, and antioxidant activity levels, which increased linearly with the substitution rate. Quinoa supplementation led to an increase in volatile compounds that were nearly always characterised by positive olfactory attributes. Sensory analysis revealed that the maximal substitution rate of QF able to maintain an adequate consumer acceptability rating is probably 50%, as higher percentages impaired acceptability due to the presence of herbaceous and bitter tastes, even if the consumers also rated these samples as healthier and softer to touch.

Monitoring mental health treatment acceptance and initial treatment adherence in veterans

2010 ◽  
Vol 1208 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Lindley ◽  
Holly Cacciapaglia ◽  
Delilah Noronha ◽  
Eve Carlson ◽  
Alan Schatzberg
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Treatment Adherence ◽  
Mental Health Treatment ◽  
Initial Treatment ◽  
Health Treatment ◽  
Treatment Acceptance

scholarly journals Optimization of Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz)– Wheat (Triticum aestivum) Bread with Alpha-amylase and Xylanase

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Ronalyn Veril ◽  
◽  
Felix Amestoso ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cross Product ◽  
Mean Value ◽  
Composite Flour ◽  
Local Market ◽  
Target Market ◽  
Manihot Esculenta Crantz ◽  
Overall Acceptability ◽  
Acceptability Rating ◽  
Hedonic Scale ◽  
General Acceptability

The combination action of α-amylase, xylanase, and composite flour was analyzed to determine their effects on the sensory quality of bread through optimization using Central Composite Design (CCD) of the Response Surface Methodology. Fifteen bread formulations containing different concentrations of α-amylase (0, 0.0005, and 0.003% w/w), xylanase (0, 0.001 and 0.003% w/w), and composite flour (15, 30, 45%w/w) were used in the experiment. The study revealed that α-amylase significantly influenced the response of crust color, crumb structure, flavor, and general acceptability of the bread. The presence of xylanase caused a change in the response of crust color, crumb texture, and the general acceptability only. However, its cross product interaction with composite flour level affected the response of crust color, crumb texture and structure, flavor, and the overall acceptability of the product. The synergistic effect of α-amylase and xylanase displayed a positive effect on the overall acceptability of the bread. The optimum formulation set at acceptability rating of >7.20 on the 9-point Hedonic scale was determined at 38% composite flour with 0.002% α-amylase and 0.0012% xylanase with a cost of P41.14 per 421.27g of loaf. The observed acceptability mean for all sensory attributes of the formulation was not significantly different from the predicted acceptability mean value of the model according to the verification test. This formulation was not significantly different from the commercial bread available in the local market of Baybay City, Leyte based on the consumer acceptance results with children and adults as potential target market.

scholarly journals The effect of coordinate structure on the licensing of čto-clauses in noun complement constructions: An experimental study

Rhema ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 56-69
Author(s):  
Mikhail Yu. Knyazev
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Alternative Hypothesis ◽  
Coordinate Structure ◽  
Complex Predicate ◽  
Acceptability Rating

Previously, čto-clause complements of nouns were found to be more acceptable in constructions with collocations as opposed to non-collocations, which was taken to support the hypothesis whereby čto-clauses are introduced by a silent preposition licensed by incorporation into a complex predicate (created in collocational constructions). The paper presents the results of an acceptability rating study testing the prediction of this account, namely, that embedding the noun in a coordinate structure should block the incorporation and hence licensing of čto-clauses. In addition, an alternative hypothesis is examined according to which čto-clauses are more acceptable in collocations due to their higher frequency.

scholarly journals Binding German (In)direct Objects: Spell-Out Strategies for Disambiguation

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Nicholas Twiner ◽  
Vera Lee-Schoenfeld
Keyword(s):  
Direct Object ◽  
Distributed Morphology ◽  
Double Object ◽  
Indirect Object ◽  
Binding Data ◽  
Acceptability Rating ◽  
Canonical Surface ◽  
Direct Objects ◽  
Case Licensing ◽  
Idiomatic Meaning

Despite Grewendorf’s (1988) well-known German binding data with the double-object verb zeigen ‘show’, which suggests that the direct object (DO) is generated higher than the indirect object (IO), this paper argues for the canonical surface order of IO>DO as base order. Highlighting the exceptional status of Grewendorf's examples, building on Featherston & Sternefeld’s (2003) quantitative acceptability rating study, and exploiting the fact that zeigen can also be used as inherently reflexive with idiomatic meaning, and we appeal to Bruening's (2010) theory of idiom formation as well as the Encyclopedia within Distributed Morphology (Marantz 1997, Embick & Noyer 2007) and propose a flexible Spell-Out mechanism within a derivational approach to binding (e.g. Hornstein 2001 and Zwart 2002) that can override narrow syntactic case licensing by realizing nominals with different morphological case.

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