Answer the question based on the passage given below. Children tend to swallow anything from buttons to toy parts or coins when theyre young. But try to get them to swallow a tiny pill and it can often end in tears and frustration. So how do you get a young sick child to take tablets? A recent study from the Netherlands suggests that the tricks tried by parents and doctors to get medicine into their children - grinding up a pill into jam, squirting a plastic syringe-full of medicine into the mouth or simply bribing a child to swallow medicines - are not necessary. It analyzed the acceptability of placebo, or dummy medicines. Parents were asked to give their children aged between 1 and 4 years - a pill or spoonful of medicine at home everyday. Nearly all of the children who took part in the study - 98% of them - were able to swallow the tablets successfully. Which of the following most seriously weakens conclusion of the above study? OPTIONS 1) Unless children are feeling sickly, they all manage to swallow food and drink effortlessly. 2) None of the tricks resorted to by parents and doctors can be effective as the taste of the tablets may be a problem for the child. 3) All the children in the study had received cognitive behavioral therapy to help them with anxiety disorders and other problems. 4) The parents who had administered the placebo maintained calm and did not exhibit any anxiety when they urged the child to swallow the pill.
Posted on: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 07:56:42 +0000
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