Sentences with phrase «intervention research team»

Intervention The research team asked an external group offering Christian intercessory prayer to add the study's participants to their usual prayer lists.

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To figure out how best to handle life's shoulda - coulda - wouldas, the research team asked study volunteers to try one of three interventions.

Duru and his research team devised an eight - week, faith - based intervention program for 62 African - American women, age 60 or older, who reported engaging in 30 minutes of exercise less than three times per week.

Under the Long Term Intervention Monitoring Project, the Office has engaged consortium monitoring teams, led by research institutions, to develop and implement 5 - year monitoring and evaluation plans for selected areas within the Basin.

The same research team also tried another intervention to encourage healthy eating.

NEA's research team has over 30 years» combined experience of working on and researching fuel poverty, domestic energy issues and the impact of associated policy and practice interventions.

The team carried out a wide range of research including surveys and field - based intervention studies investigating the impact of social identity on various outcomes, including performance, stress, health and wellbeing.

The research team examined vaccination rates across three clinics — one that used the intervention, and two controls.

«Our findings highlight pregnancy as a sensitive period when positive lifestyle interventions could have significant and long - lasting beneficial effects on offspring metabolism and disease risk,» wrote the research team.

In a report published June 28 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, the research team describes how these interventions reduced overuse of troponin and other biomarker testing without compromising patient care.

With this in mind, a research team including academics and practitioners inside and outside of government examined existing studies to evaluate the relative cost effectiveness of nudges and other policy interventions.

The research team investigated 13 commercially available activity monitors, including devices by Basis, BodyMedia, Misfit, Fitbug, Ibitz, Polar and Withings, to detail what tactics they use to promote healthy and fit behaviors, determine how closely they match successful interventions and compare the functionality of several devices and their apps to the recommendations of health care professionals.

The research team evaluated the men at the start of the study, two months after the program and three months after the program and found significant differences between the men who had the intervention and those who did not.

Parents and carers interviewed by the research team were unanimous in thinking that the intervention had resulted in positive changes.

New research from BYU's autism experts is providing clues into the link between aggression and autism — clues the team hopes will eventually lead to more effective intervention.

The intervention is supported by a peer support forum moderated by a member of the research team and motivational emails.

The research team assessed whether these interventions improved hydration status and body weight, and whether the intervention helped older people to enjoy the experience of eating or drinking, and improved their quality of life.

The team systematically reviewed research from around the world and assessed the effectiveness of 56 interventions which all aimed to improve, maintain, or facilitate food or drink intake among more than 2,200 people with dementia.

The research team assessed both babies with the fetal intervention and without, and found both groups were equally as likely to be diagnosed with SDB.

The research team looked at the number of injuries, severity of injury, type of hospital interventions, patient deaths and costs - per - patient in children with gunshot injuries compared with children whose injuries resulted from other mechanisms, including stabbing, being hit by a motor vehicle, struck by blunt object, falls, motor vehicle crashes and others.

As an example of the NIMH approach to intervention development research, the Recovery After an Initial Schizophrenia Episode (RAISE) initiative utilized coordinated specialty care (CSC), a team - based intervention designed to improve outcomes for individuals experiencing first episode psychosis.

In the new study, a research team led by David M. Nathan, MD, of Massachusetts General Hospital, in Boston, looked at results from three large, long - term studies: the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT); its follow - up study, the Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications (EDIC); and the Pittsburgh Epidemiology of Diabetes Complications (EDC) study.

An early intervention program for Kindergarten students, a program involving professional learning teams working together to increase teacher knowledge, and an action research project looking at how to use data to support student learning and feedback.

The research team will focus on the following three questions: 1) Does iRead Intervention improve language skills (vocabulary and narrative) of young children?

During the first half year, the research team will measure language, social and cognitive development of the children and book reading skills of parents in both groups to estimate the effectiveness of the intervention.

Production of papers and reports: The entire HGSE team, including the postdoctoral fellow, will take responsibility for conducting analyses needed to answer the central research questions, writing up reports and articles for publication, making presentations, and making the curricular and intervention programs shown to be effective publicly available.

Research suggests that middle school interdisciplinary teaching teams can achieve more effective problem solving when meeting with other faculty and / or parents to discuss interventions and progress, can create a greater sense of community, and can lower feelings of isolation (Mac Iver, 1990).

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

A new social - emotional learning (SEL) intervention from the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Stephanie Jones and her research team offers a promising source of support for low - income families.

Jones and her research team, using the SEL curriculum they'd already developed for schools, have now created just that kind of aligned intervention, called SECURe Families — a set of workshops for parents that mirror the strategies children are learning in schools.

SCSF asked an independent research team to conduct an experimental evaluation of the impact of the intervention on student achievement and other outcomes, such as school climate and school quality, as reported by the students» parents or other guardians.

In addition, the PI will meet with other members of the research team to discuss the intervention's implementation and advance the project's research aims.

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.

The research team is extending an existing evidence - based, teacher - and child - focused curricular intervention that targets self - regulation and executive function skills in PreK - 3rd grade classrooms, called «SECURe: Social, Emotional, and Cognitive Understanding and Regulation in education.»

Utilize research - based learning factors to guide your team's assessment of their learning interventions.

Critical issues included: addressing benchmark results, having the leadership team visible in all classrooms, researching and initiating appropriate interventions, supporting teachers through coaching, and providing resources and removing barriers to learning.

This training will provide teams with the necessary knowledge to install the research - based tier 2 behavior intervention program Check - in / Check - out (CICO) within their buildings.

States would be able to choose one of six intensive interventions for improving performance in these schools, ranging from a strategic staffing strategy that allows principals to staff schools with a turnaround team of their choosing, to a whole - school reform strategy that requires schools to partner with an organization that has a research - based success record.

The team then researches, designs and implements an intervention strategy aimed at improving learning outcomes for the struggling students.

District and site leadership teams will gain knowledge and practical experience to implement MTSS as a coordinated K - 12 system of academic and behavior support interventions that are designed to facilitate early and appropriately intensive research - based interventions for students at risk.

The 60 interventions evaluated by the research team all met requirements for Tiers I - III.

• Identifying, collecting and analyzing student data with a robust body of evidence • Selecting instructional and social emotional Tier 1,2, and 3 interventions aligned to appropriate skill gaps • Monitoring student progress and setting appropriate goals • Deepen your understanding of the principles of MTSS and best practices as shared through national researched based practices and real time case scenarios, • Prioritize an action plan on next steps for your team or individual tool box and capacity

Each team member initially works individually to collect and review research related to an intervention, to propose an intervention to their team, and then review and rate example interventions included in the guide as «not recommended,» «recommended,» or «strongly recommended.»

She is currently working with research teams on several national impact and evaluation studies in the US involving early and adolescent reading, mathematics, literacy leadership, and Response to Intervention.

Student Assistance Team Coordinator - Organized and held all Student Assistance Team meetings, completed child study paperwork, and prescribed research - based interventions for teachers to use with students.

Based in Adelaide, Australia, Dr Furber is now involved in developing a clinical research program around relationship - based therapies for children and their caregivers as well as providing CBT interventions as part of the Flinders Medical Centre CAMHS liaison team.

Blinding: The research managerial staff, the participants and nurse teams delivering the intervention are aware of the allocation to treatment arm.

As well as publishing the research around the intervention — which involves giving a 20 cent tablet three times a week after dialysis — the research team has made two short videos to provide a plain language summary for patients and the general community.

This pragmatic trial was designed in accordance with the consolidated standards of reporting trials guidelines54 and was conducted by a research team independent of the programme, with an independent trial steering committee including chairman, parental representation and members with expertise in statistics; early years» intervention studies; and child psychiatry.

The ESDM has also been studied in an early effectiveness trial39 wherein the research team compared distance learning and live instruction for community - based therapists implementing intervention and training parents.