Sentences with phrase «intervention research center»

Support for this research was provided by National Institute of Mental Health Grant P30 M439246 - 15 to establish a Preventive Intervention Research Center at Arizona State University, Grant 1R01 MH49155 - 05 to evaluate a preventive intervention for bereaved families, and Grant 2R01 MH49155 - 06 to conduct a 6 - year follow - up of a preventive intervention for bereaved families.

Cultural Capacity Building Cores: The Northwest Indian Prevention Intervention Research Center, directed by Tom Ball, is focused on preparing Tribes in the Northwest region for the development of their own regional prevention and intervention research center.

Together with six tribes in the geographic region, they also established the Northwest Indian Prevention Intervention Research Center.

Eddy and Reid became active members of the Board of Directors of the Society for Prevention Research (SPR), Eddy helped establish the Early Career Preventionists Network (ECPN), and the OSLC Prevention Intervention Research Center hosted the websites of a variety of professional prevention groups.

Sources of funding: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration, Rockville, and Psychotherapy Core of the National Institute of Mental Health Child Psychiatry Intervention Research Center, Rockville.

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As a member of Postpartum Support, International, a non-profit organization with volunteer coordinators in each state in the U.S. and 26 countries around the world, Karen and her associates at The Postpartum Stress Center are continuously in touch with the needs of the postpartum community as well as with current research and state - of - the - art interventions.

The primary goal of parent support programs is to provide support and information in ways that help parents become more capable and competent.2, 3 Research now indicates that to reach this goal, it is necessary that staff use practices that are family - centered as opposed to professionally - centered, and capacity - building as opposed to dependency forming.4, 5,6,7 The key characteristics of family - centered practices include: treating families with dignity and respect; providing individual, flexible and responsive support; sharing information so families can make informed decisions; ensuring family choice regarding intervention options; and providing the necessary resources and supports for parents to care for their children in ways that produce optimal parent and child outcomes.8, 9,10,11

My research experience includes assisting with data collection and developmental assessment for high - risk preterm infants at Children's Hospital Boston as well as creating and implementing curriculum for an intervention in the Pediatrics Department at Boston Medical Center.

Founded in 1990, National Children's Alliance provides accreditation opportunities, financial assistance, training, technical assistance, research and education to communities, child abuse professionals and children's advocacy centers throughout the United States in support of child abuse intervention, advocacy and prevention.

A new Norwegian diet intervention study (FATFUNC), performed by researchers at the KG Jebsen center for diabetes research at the University of Bergen, raises questions regarding the validity of a diet hypothesis that has dominated for more than half a century: that dietary fat and particularly saturated fat is unhealthy for most people.

«Tobacco use in 1997 is not just some bad habit, but a powerful addiction that warrants appropriate medical treatment,» says Michael Fiore, M.D., director of the Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention at the University of Wisconsin Medical School.

«We believe that music could potentially be used as an intervention to help people with epilepsy,» said Christine Charyton, PhD, adjunct assistant professor and visiting assistant professor of neurology at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, who presented the research.

«By using a serious video game, we saw increases in meal - specific vegetable intake at dinner for the children in the Action and Coping groups and fruit intake at breakfast, lunch, and snacks for all intervention groups,» said lead author Karen Cullen, DrPH, RD, USDA / ARS, Children's Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine.

Dr. Iwona Rudkowska, a research scientist at the Endocrinology and Nephrology Department, at the CHU de Québec Research Center and assistant professor at Laval University, says «additional well - designed intervention studies are needed to ascertain the effects of increased dairy consumption on metabolic health in healthy and in metabolically deteriorated populationsresearch scientist at the Endocrinology and Nephrology Department, at the CHU de Québec Research Center and assistant professor at Laval University, says «additional well - designed intervention studies are needed to ascertain the effects of increased dairy consumption on metabolic health in healthy and in metabolically deteriorated populationsResearch Center and assistant professor at Laval University, says «additional well - designed intervention studies are needed to ascertain the effects of increased dairy consumption on metabolic health in healthy and in metabolically deteriorated populations.»

«This study has important ramifications for health care reform and how practitioners approach adherence assessment and intervention in routine care,» says Kevin Hommel, PhD, director of the Center for Health Technology Research at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the study's lead author.

«The findings of both studies support a growing body of research that suggests lifestyle interventions lower biomarkers associated with breast cancer recurrence and mortality, and improve quality of life,» said Melinda Irwin, PhD, co-program leader of the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program at Yale Cancer Center, associate professor of Epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, and principal investigator on both research that suggests lifestyle interventions lower biomarkers associated with breast cancer recurrence and mortality, and improve quality of life,» said Melinda Irwin, PhD, co-program leader of the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program at Yale Cancer Center, associate professor of Epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, and principal investigator on both Research Program at Yale Cancer Center, associate professor of Epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, and principal investigator on both studies.

Dr. Michael Motes, senior research scientist at the Center for BrainHealth and one of the lead authors of the study, said, «Finding a nonpharmacological intervention that can help the aging brain to perform like a younger brain is a welcome finding that potentially advances understanding of ways to enhance brain health and longevity.

Grais is scientist at Epicentre, a nonprofit health and epidemiology research center in Paris set up by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to guide its health - care interventions in developing countries.

As noted in the study by Crimmins and lead author Morgan E. Levine, assistant professor at the Yale Center for Research on Aging: «A deceleration of the human aging process, whether accomplished through environment or biomedical intervention, would push the timing of aging - related disease and disability incidence closer to the end of life.»

«These results reinforce our previous findings suggesting that interventions that affect replicative capacity can not only impact disease progression, but also the efficiency of transmission to other people,» says senior author Eric Hunter, co-director of the Emory Center for AIDS Research, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar and a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at Emory University School of Medicine.

«Our findings demonstrate that people naturally assign different weights to the pluses and minuses of interventions to improve cardiovascular health,» said Erica Spatz, M.D., M.H.S., the study lead author and an assistant professor of cardiovascular medicine in the Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, CT. «I believe we need to tap into this framework when we are talking with patients about options to manage their blood pressure.

«We had hoped the new pharmacotherapy would help more people quit, but this is not what is happening,» said lead author Shu - Hong Zhu, PhD, a professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health and director of Center for Research and Intervention in Tobacco Control at UC San Diego.

A family - centered, school - based intervention in pre-kindergarten programs developed at NYU Langone Medical Center, known as ParentCorps, has a positive and lasting impact on mental health and academic performance, according to new research published online October 3 in JAMA Pediatrics.

«This study points to the caudate nucleus as a likely target for clinical interventions to alleviate fatigue,» explained Dr. Wylie, who is associate director of Neuroscience Research and the Rocco Ortenzio Neuroimaging Center at Kessler Foundation.

«This is the first study of its kind to show that if patients enrolled in intensive lifestyle intervention treatments aren't successful in losing weight after the first two months of treatment, they aren't likely to be successful using this approach alone long - term,» said lead author Jessica L. Unick, PhD, of the Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center, The Miriam Hospital and Brown Medical School, Providence, RI.

Research is critical to understanding the unique health challenges these survivors face, and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center investigators lead the way in examining long - term outcomes as well as interventions that help these patients take control of their health and happiness.

NIH Clinical Center (CC)-- Est. in 1953 The NIH Clinical Center, America's research hospital, provides a versatile clinical research environment enabling the NIH mission to improve human health by investigating the pathogenesis of disease; conducting first - in - human clinical trials with an emphasis on rare diseases and diseases of high public health impact; developing state - of - the - art diagnostic, preventive, and therapeutic interventions; training the current and next generations of clinical researchers; and, ensuring that clinical research is ethical, efficient, and of high scientific quality.

«Sure, medication is effective at curbing withdrawal symptoms,» says Bruce Christiansen, PhD, lead researcher at the University of Wisconsins Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention (UW - CTRI).

Another theory points to cultural expectations: «We know that men are often compelled by stereotypes to act tough and manly,» says Roger Fillingim, PhD, director of the UF Pain Research and Intervention Center of Excellence at the University of Florida.

Damon Jones, Ph.D., is a Research Associate at Penn State's Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center, serving as a program evaluator and methodologist for several family and youth behavioral interventions and prevention programs.

As more and more districts of all sizes started collecting data to evaluate what programs and interventions were working for their students and which weren't, it became clear to the team at the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) that this information was helpful only if educators had a way to interpret it — and in a timely way.

Experts from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) played a significant role in studying and reporting the findings of The Impact of Two Professional Development Interventions on Early Reading Instruction and Achievement, a report that was released on September 22, 2008 by the National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance of the Institute of Education Sciences (IES).

For instance, I directed a national Head Start Quality Research Center; created a program, Dialogic Reading (which is a widely used and effective intervention for enhancing the language development and book knowledge of young children from low - income families); and authored an assessment tool, the Get Ready to Read Screen, that has become a staple of early intervention program evaluation.

Grossen serves as the executive director of the Center for Applied Research in Education, a non-profit organization that provides implementation guidance for schools implementing secondary Direct Instruction intervention in mathematics, reading, and writing.

This resource also includes a guide from the Florida Center for Reading Research at Florida State University for state education agencies to conduct self - directed studies to find opportunities for school interventions and improvement.

Florida Center for Reading Research at Florida State University An SEA Guide for Identifying Evidence - Based Interventions for School Improvement

Learner - Centered Teaching helps educators use research - based classroom practices such as formative assessment, personal conferencing, and targeted academic learning supports and interventions.

The Learning Sciences Research Institute, University of Illinois - Chicago, is, with the Dana Center, researcher, codesigner, and coauthor of the Intensified Algebra I and Intensified Integrated Mathematics I interventions.

Jessica Agus of the National High School Center at the American Institutes for Research (AIR) presents an overview of tiered intervention models and Jo Ann Burkholder, of the Office of School Improvement, Virginia Department of Education, discusses levels of support in Virginia to keep students on track to graduation.

Description This guide for teachers is a companion piece to the meta - analysis from the Center on Instruction, Mathematics Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities or Difficulty Learning Mathematics: A Synthesis of the Intervention Research.

This resource, created by the National High School Center at the American Institutes for Research, discusses four aspects that are recommended to support RTI efforts at the state, district and school levels, including leadership, data - based decision making, interventions and professional development.

Christy S. Murray of The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk presents an overview of intervention lesson plans designed to support middle school students» reading comprehension as they read brief novels chosen by schools in which the research took place.

The eighth annual event, hosted by the Northwestern University Institute for Policy Research and supported by the National Center for Education Statistics, aims to «increase the national capacity of researchers to develop and conduct rigorous evaluations of the impact of education interventions.

Special Education Research and Development Center on School - Based Interventions for Secondary Students With Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2012 — 2014, $ 8,000,000 *

Louis Danielson, Ph.D., Managing Director at the American Institutes for Research, is serving as Center Co-Director to the National Center on Intensive Intervention.

Her areas of interest center on supporting the implementation of evidence - based interventions by teachers and schools, including professional development (PD) and coaching models to reduce the research - to - practice gap; Implementation Science, including frameworks across fields and factors associated with sustained use of evidence - based interventions; and, the application of MTSS across general and special education, including Response - to - Intervention and School - Wide Positive Behavior Intervention Supports.

In order for treatment to be effective and yield positive outcomes for students, interventions should be research - based, family - centered and culturally - competent.

This report, authored by Louise Kennelly and Maggie Monrad of the National High School Center at the American Institutes for Research, outlines steps that schools can take to identify at - risk students and provide the necessary support systems and relevant interventions to assist students in obtaining a high school diploma.

Improving Student Attendance in Indiana's Schools: Synthesis of Existing Research Related to Student Absenteeism and Effective, Research - Based Interventions, prepared for the Indiana Department of Education by the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy at Indiana University, October 2013

Michael Rich, MD, MPH is Founder and Director of the Center on Media and Child Health at Children's Hospital Boston, committed to pursuing research, developing interventions on negative health effects of media, and creating health - positive media.