PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Ice Cream, Neoplasm, Childrens Hospital
12 Nov 2018
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Candy as a scapegoat in the prevention of food aversions in children receiving. Abstract: effectiveness of a method for reducing the incidence of chemo- induced learned food aversions examined. Aversions: strong dislikes: candy coconut or rootbeer lifesavers used as scapegoat. Given between consumption of a meal and the administration of chemo. Used to determine whether this would to a greater willingness to consume items in that meal at a future test: procedure revealed that scapegoat had positive effects. Introduction: appetite loss + food aversions common in neoplastic disease patients, symptom factor = development of learned food aversions in patients receiving chemo. Learned food aversions = food or taste specific + develop as a result of associating those food with unpleasant internal symptoms like nausea (result of gi toxicity) Food aversions develop in pediatric + adult cancer patients. Such foods became targets of food aversions specific foods eaten before chemo treatments.
