Sentences with phrase «intervention studies offer»

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

In eight studies, the intervention was offered to the women at home (Graffy 2004, Hoddinott 2012; Paul 2012; Penfold 2014; Reeder 2014; Sellen 2013; Serwint 1996; Winterburn 2003), one study carried out interventions in hospital only (Collins 2004), and one study carried out interventions, both in hospital and the outpatient clinic (Junior 2007).

Five studies offered the intervention in the context of Baby Friendly accreditation of the hospital, and are unlikely to be generalisable to settings where this standard of care is not available to all women.

As noted above, included studies were very varied in setting, population group studied, content, timing and intensity of the intervention, whether it was proactively offered to women or available only if they asked for it, the standard care available, staff training programmes, and the type and timing of the outcomes measured.

The study findings defy the conventional belief that the two treatment interventions offer equal survival, and show the need to revisit some standards of breast cancer practice in the modern era.

The paper offers evidence - based suggestions, which grew out of the study, for developing diagnostic tools and interventions to enhance language and cognitive development.

Prior research that studied the effect of free behavioral counseling offered by phone has shown improvement in smoking cessation rates when combined with pharmaceutical interventions.

A second study, which was another joint effort by UW and UCSF, randomized more than 600 people across the United States assessed as moderately or mildly depressed to one of three interventions: Akili's Project: EVO; iPST, an app deployment of problem - solving therapy; or a placebo control (an app called Health Tips, which offered healthy suggestions).

He also highlights the importance of ensuring adequate care is available when personnel do seek help: «Even if an individual did present to mental health services in the UK military as part of (this) study, this did not guarantee that an evidence - based intervention was offered, even when a general practitioner was consulted.»

The good news about this latest study is that it offers scalable interventions against drug - seeking behaviors, albeit through evidence based on animal behavior.

Limitations of the study included the fact that interventions were routinely offered to women with a history of pregnancy loss or early preterm birth if a short cervix was detected, which may have influenced the pregnancy outcome and slightly reduced the predictive ability in this study, but ethically the study could not be conducted without providing some intervention.

The study in mice, published online in The Journal of Immunology, may also offer targets for intervention and amelioration of the disease.

An editorial in the American Journal of Psychiatry offered a very powerful comment on three recent food - mood studies: «It is both compelling and daunting to consider that dietary intervention at an individual or population level could reduce rates of psychiatric disorders.

The expressive writing intervention used in the study is available to the public through Duke Integrative Medicine's recurring program offering, Transform Your Health: Write to Heal, and registration for the fall 2017 session begins in August.

So it all seems plausible that whole grain intake does indeed offer direct benefits; however, only results from randomized controlled intervention studies can provide the evidence of cause and effect.

The study recommends that interventions be implemented during the early middle grades to prevent most dropout outcomes, and that non-traditional credit - earning options be offered to older enrolled students (17 and older) who already have patterns of chronic absenteeism and course failure.

Students in the intervention group were enrolled in programs of study / career pathways, many offered as wall - to - wall career academies in subject areas ranging from the health sciences, engineering technology, and alternative fuels to automotive technology, business and marketing, and culinary and hospitality.

Does the school offer culturally relevant (or «responsive») pedagogy, as evidenced through literature, projects, assignments, events and field trips, ethnic studies courses, connections to families and communities, interventions, and other resources?

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This study supports the benefits of offering parent - training interventions in primary care settings.

Existing systematic reviews of the effects of parenting interventions offered to families with young children have shown mixed results.14 24 — 29 In a review of 78 studies aimed at families with children aged 0 — 5 years, Piquero et al 14 found an average effect size (g) of 0.37 for decreased antisocial behaviour and delinquency for intervention children.

The study was conducted independently in South Wales» communities by Simkiss and colleagues and was unusual in that the programme was offered universally, rather than to parents on a waiting list for intervention.

Eight studies offered individual home visits, 44 — 46 49 — 51 55 — 59 three studies offered individual sessions (outside the home), 47 48 52 — 54 one study offered group sessions, 42 one study offered web coaching, 43 two studies combined individual sessions and group sessions, 36 and one study combined home visits and group sessions.46 Intervention was initiated prenatally in four studies, 36 55 56 59 and 12 studies initiated intervention after the child was born.36 42 — 54 57 58 The duration of the interventions varied from relatively short interventions (≤ 6 months) 43 44 49 — 54 to medium - length interventions (7 — 12 months) 42 45 46 56 59 to long interventions (≥ 24 months).36 47Intervention was initiated prenatally in four studies, 36 55 56 59 and 12 studies initiated intervention after the child was born.36 42 — 54 57 58 The duration of the interventions varied from relatively short interventions (≤ 6 months) 43 44 49 — 54 to medium - length interventions (7 — 12 months) 42 45 46 56 59 to long interventions (≥ 24 months).36 47intervention after the child was born.36 42 — 54 57 58 The duration of the interventions varied from relatively short interventions (≤ 6 months) 43 44 49 — 54 to medium - length interventions (7 — 12 months) 42 45 46 56 59 to long interventions (≥ 24 months).36 47 48 55 57 58

(PDF - 4342 KB) Roggman, Boyce, & Innocenti (2010) Offers slides from a presentation at the Conference in Research Innovations in Early Intervention that discuss the role of parent engagement in home visiting services, review problems of low parent engagement, and share findings from a study that examined strategies used by 25 home visitors in a Part C Early Intervention Program.

Participants who were in the routine treatment group were offered the group intervention once the study was completed.

«A few studies have examined the utility of offering more intensive parent training interventions as universal supports to help parents get positively involved with their child's school, to reduce the use of punitive discipline practices, and to increase the use of positive management strategies at home.

A preventive intervention was randomly offered to a group of 67 non - to mildly distressed couples who participated in a larger study on relationships.

e) Service is Offered in «Normalized» Settings Many of the studies and most of the practitioners indicated that interventions were more successful if they could be provided in more natural or normal settings.

Many trials used volunteers or people selected by referrers as willing to take part in parenting projects, thus excluding many disorganised, unmotivated, or disadvantaged families, who have the most antisocial children.2 A review of meta - analyses of published trials of psychological treatments for childhood disorders found that in university settings the effect size was large, from 0.71 to 0.84 SD.12 In contrast, a review of six studies of outcome in regular service clinics since 1950 showed no significant effects, 12 and a large trial offering unrestricted access to outpatient services found no improvement.13 Reasons suggested for the poor outcome in clinic cases include that they have more severe problems, come from more distressed families, and receive less empirically supported interventions from staff with heavier caseloads.

A qualitative study of pregnant Indigenous women in Perth found that women commonly referred to smoking as normal, a stress release, a low health priority and a social experience, and commented that it was difficult to quit because they were surrounded by smoking from their family and household members.11 In the social context of high smoking rates and large numbers of adults per household, smoking may offer an opportunity to alleviate stress, acting as a social lubricant in «time - out, yarning, and sharing with others».11 This provides a critical target for intervention in antenatal smoking; in order to help women to quit, it seems that consideration of and involvement with the social context in which women live are essential.

For example, the University of Wisconsin and the Waisman Center, in partnership with WI - AIMH, have developed a 13 - month certificate program that meets 2 days a month and offers a foundational pathway with a focus on early interventionists and home visitors (aligned with MI - AIMHs Level II competencies) and a clinical course of study for those providing intervention or treatment (aligned with Level III competencies).

One that offered a challenge until I realized that a commentary is just that, a personal reaction pinpointing part of the material that potentially impacts either me personally or my field of study and interest, in this instance psychotherapeutic interventions that offer clients and ourselves a way forward.

The course brings in cutting edge interventions and theory from the scientific study of relationships and offers students the opportunity to learn from the best of the best in the field of couple's therapy including a series of lectures by William Pinsof, Cheryl Rampage, Mona Fishbane and Doug Breunlin amongst a slew of other experts in this field.

In fact, studies recently conducted at Mt. Hope Family Center have offered compelling evidence that preventive interventions that target maternal representations of relationships are very effective in promoting attachment security.

Thirty - two percent of our cohort had sleep problems at 3 to 4 years, slightly lower than the 41 % reported in another longitudinal study of 308 infants.7 However, in that study, no behavioral intervention was offered and persistence of a sleep problem might therefore be more likely.7

This means that almost all mothers participating in the study will be on maternity leave with the child when the intervention is being offered, and will remain on maternity leave until the child is somewhere between six and 12 months.