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Predicting attrition of men with a history of violence from randomised clinical trials
Preventing dropout (attrition) from clinical trials is vital for improving study validity. Dropout is particularly important in justice-involved...
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Estimating Student Attrition in School-Based Prevention Studies: Guidance from State Longitudinal Data in Maryland
Attrition is a critical concern for evaluating the rigor of prevention studies, and the current study provides rates of attrition for subgroups of...
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Attrition of health extension workers in Ethiopia: trends, regional variations and determinants – a mixed methods study of 15 years of experience
BackgroundEnsuring regular supervision, capacity building and motivation are crucial for the successful retention of health extension workers (HEWs)....
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Understanding Factors Leading to Surgical Attrition for “Resectable” Gastric Cancer
ObjectivesWe used a novel combined analysis to evaluate various factors associated with failure to surgical resection in non-metastatic gastric...
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Telomere attrition and inflammation: the chicken and the egg story
The challenge to improve human life span has progressed with the advent of health care services and technologies. This improvement poses a new...
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Reasons for Preoperative Patient Attrition among Bariatric Surgery Candidates: Patients’ Point of View
PurposeObesity has become a global health concern, associated with decreased quality of life and life expectancy. Although bariatric surgery has many...
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Attrition one year after starting antiretroviral therapy before and after the programmatic implementation of HIV “Treat All” in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis
IntroductionEvidence on the real-world effects of “Treat All” on attrition has not been systematically reviewed. We aimed to review existing...
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Attrition and social vulnerability during 2-year-long structured care in type 2 diabetes, the ERMIES randomized controlled trial
BackgroundDiabetes self-management education is exposed to attrition from services and structured ambulatory care. However, knowledge about factors...
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Accounting for expected attrition in the planning of cluster randomized trials for assessing treatment effect heterogeneity
BackgroundDetecting treatment effect heterogeneity is an important objective in cluster randomized trials and implementation research. While sample...
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Attrition Rates Among African American Patients with Obesity Seeking Bariatric Surgery: a High-Volume Single Center Analysis
Despite the greater prevalence of obesity, African American (AA) adults represent a minority of bariatric surgery patients. The aim of this study was...
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Predicting panel attrition in longitudinal HRQoL surveys during the COVID-19 pandemic in the US
BackgroundOnline longitudinal surveys may be subject to potential biases due to sample attrition. This study was designed to identify potential...
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Incidence and predictors of attrition rate after children started inpatient treatments for complicated severe acute malnutrition in North West Ethiopia
BackgroundRetaining children for inpatient treatment of complicated severe acute malnutrition (SAM) is a growing challenge until achieved the...
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Develo** non-response weights to account for attrition-related bias in a longitudinal pregnancy cohort
BackgroundProspective cohorts may be vulnerable to bias due to attrition. Inverse probability weights have been proposed as a method to help mitigate...
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Sample attrition analysis in a prospective cohort study of medical graduates in China
BackgroundA major challenge of prospective cohort studies is attrition in follow-up surveys. This study investigated attrition in a prospective...
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Implementation framework for income generating activities identified by community health volunteers (CHVs): a strategy to reduce attrition rate in Kilifi County, Kenya
BackgroundDespite the proven efficacy of Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) in promoting primary healthcare in low- and middle-income countries...
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Characteristics Associated with Participant Attrition and Retention in a Perinatal Home Visiting Program
Using data from the Florida Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) funded programs, we examined program- and participant-level...
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Experienced weight stigma, internalized weight bias, and clinical attrition in a medical weight loss patient sample
BackgroundLimited research has explored the relationship between weight bias and clinical attrition, despite weight bias being associated with...
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Attrition from Care Among Men Initiating ART in Male-Only Clinics Compared with Men in General Primary Healthcare Clinics in Khayelitsha, South Africa: A Matched Propensity Score Analysis
Men have higher rates of attrition from antiretroviral therapy (ART) programs than women. In Khayelitsha, a high HIV prevalence area in South Africa,...
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Understanding the factors affecting attrition and intention to leave of health extension workers: a mixed methods study in Ethiopia
BackgroundThe Health Extension Program (HEP) is Ethiopia’s flagship community health program, launched in 2003. Health Extension Workers (HEWs) are...
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Inverse probability weighting to handle attrition in cohort studies: some guidance and a call for caution
BackgroundAttrition in cohort studies challenges causal inference. Although inverse probability weighting (IPW) has been proposed to handle attrition...
