Children experience significant number of stressful situations at school during their academic years. The aims of this study were to identify school refusers groups of children through latent profile ...

Treatments for school refusal run the whole gamut of typical psychological and pharmacological therapies. The most common treatment seems to be cognitive behavior therapy, which attempts to get the ...

I first heard about 'hikikomori' on a visit to Japan 25 years ago. It was a new term then, used to describe severe and prolonged school refusal in teenagers, sometimes evolving into complete social ...

Within the context of the USHER trial, 29% of the 1,959 patients who were offered a rapid HIV test in the emergency department by an HIV counselor refused the test. This rate of refusal is comparable ...

This study was conducted within the Universal Screening for HIV-infection in the Emergency Room (USHER) trial, funded by the National Institutes of Health; details of the USHER trial have been ...