The present study explored the relationship between parental attributions and treatment acceptability of behavioural interventions for problem behaviour in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Mothers of children with ASD aged 3 to 9 years (N = 139) completed survey measures that assessed demographics, parental attributions, treatment acceptability of parent-focused and child-focused ...

Background Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is highly effective for preventing HIV infections, but is not yet implemented in the Netherlands. As the attitudes of health-care professionals toward PrEP can influence future PrEP implementation, we studied PrEP knowledge and beliefs and their association with PrEP acceptability among professionals in clinics for sexually transmitted infection (STI p...

A set of tools is presented within the theoretical framework of activity systems that is designed and developed to reify the communication acts of team members to support reflective learning. An evaluation tests the acceptability of the tools used within two multi-agent virtual reality simulations. We explore the affordance of the tools and issues around their acceptability in two experimental ...

Acceptability rates of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination by 362 Malaysian mothers were 65.7% and 55.8% for daughters and sons, respectively. Younger mothers, and those who knew someone with cancer, were more willing to vaccinate their daughters. If the vaccine was routine and cost free, acceptability rate was 97.8%.

Ostrich skins (n = 214) were assessed by 28 participants involved in the ostrich leather production and marketing chain. The participants were from various sectors in the ostrich industry, including producers, skin graders, leather marketers, agents and process managers. Skins were evaluated during two occasions, firstly without any knowledge of slaughter age and thereafter with prior knowledge...

BACKGROUND Northern Thailand has a high burden HIV epidemic among MSM and TG. Oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) with tenofovir-emtricitabine has demonstrated efficacy in preventing HIV among MSM and TG in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Determinants of PrEP acceptability are needed to gauge the potential uptake of this prevention strategy. METHODS From January to February 2012, 238 MSM and TG partic...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate acceptability, compliance and attitude towards the use of iron pots compared with aluminium pots, for cooking in a community that traditionally did not use iron pots. DESIGN Randomised trial. SETTING Two rural Malawian villages. SUBJECTS Fifty-two households received iron pots and 61 aluminium pots. RESULTS Pot characteristics were assessed by a questionnaire after...

BACKGROUND Fresh Facts is a 30-day email-delivered intervention designed to increase the fruit and vegetable consumption of Australian young adults. This study investigated the extent to which the program was acceptable to members of the target audience and examined the relationships between participant and intervention characteristics, attrition, effectiveness, and acceptability ratings. MET...

Portfolios are selected in non-Gaussian contexts to maximize a Cherny and Madan index of acceptability. Analytical gradients are developed for the purpose of optimizing portfolio searches on the unit sphere. It is shown that though an acceptability index is not a preference ordering, many utilities will concur with acceptability maximization. A stylized economy illustrates the advantages from t...