Baseline differences were noted between groups in two studies (Graffy 2004; Hoddinott 2012), in one study, the intervention was not delivered to
all participants in the intervention group (Reeder 2014), and in one study, the study group differed significantly from the background population (Winterburn 2003).
After one month,
participants in the intervention group sat down for 71 minutes less in an 8 hour work day than the control group.
At the end of the study,
the participants in the intervention group displayed significant improvements in their overall cognitive performance as well as in specific domains, such as cognitive speed, visual learning, and memory.
Participants in the intervention group were instructed to eat whole grains, legumes, vegetables, and fruits as the majority of their daily food intake.
Participants in the intervention group were given specific instructions on what foods to include and exclude from their diet.
To top it all off,
participants in the intervention group noted an increased quality of life, better self - efficacy with nutrition, and higher self - esteem.
Participants in the intervention group were instructed in the five components of yoga practice: yoga asanas, chanting om, breath awareness, yoga Nidra, and Dhyana.
Participants in the intervention group attended 45 - minute tutorials from October through May of the school year.
Participants in the intervention group then received tailored reports providing feedback on their stage of change for each behavior (Precontemplation, Contemplation, Preparation, or Action), self - efficacy, and a few related topics.
Participants in the Intervention group received the MoodCare program, which consisted of 10 telephone counselling sessions delivered by registered psychologists.
Women who agreed to participate in the study (N = 439) represented about 80 % of those who were eligible.10
Participants in the intervention groups (PP+HS vs HS only) differed from those in the UC group on 2 potential confounds, maternal education and maternal age (Table 2).
Results indicated that
participants in the intervention group experienced a reduction in serious crimes during the year of treatment, and both groups demonstrated reduced rates of offending during the follow - up years.
Most
participants in the intervention group felt the social media approach was acceptable, and about a third utilized the online resources.
Not exact matches
Here's the kicker:
Participants in this
group were allowed to choose how many and which
interventions they wanted to use.
One randomized controlled trial comparing home - visited families with control
participants who received other community services found a statistically significant difference
in mean depressive symptoms at two years post-enrollment, but this contrast was nonsignificant at three years post - enrollment.15 A second study of Early Head Start found no differences
in depressive symptoms between
intervention and control
group participants post-
intervention, although a difference was detected at a longer - term follow - up prior to children's enrollment
in kindergarten.10 Other randomized controlled trial studies have not found effects of home visitation on maternal depressive symptoms.12, 16,17
for training, practice and reference, December 2007 IBFAN Training Courses on the Code ICAP, 2010 Improving Retention, Adherence, and Psychosocial Support within PMTCT Services: Implementation Workshop for Health Workers IYCN Project, The roles of grandmothers and men: evidence supporting a familyfocused approach to optimal infant and young child nutrition IYCN Project Mother - to - Mother Support
Groups Trainer's Manual - Facilitator's Manual with Discussion Guide IYCN Project, 2010, Infant Feeding and HIV: Trainer's guide and
participant's manual for training community - based workers and volunteers IYCN Project 2010, Infant Feeding and HIV: Participant's manual for community - based workers and volunteers IYCN Project, Infant and Young Child Feeding and Gender: A Training Manual for Male Group Leaders and Participant Manual for Male Group Leaders IYCN Project 2012, Helping an HIV - positive breastfeeding mother decide how to feed her child at 12 months: A checklist for health care providers IYCN Project 2012, Community interventions to promote optimal breastfeeding; evidence on early initiation, any breastfeeding, exclusive breastfeeding and continued breastfeeding; literature review, January 2012 UNICEF 2011, Community IYCF Counselling Package - The technical content of this package reflects the Guidelines on HIV and Infant Feeding 2010: Principles and Recommendations for Infant Feeding in the Context of HIV and a Summary of Evidence related to IYCF in the cont
participant's manual for training community - based workers and volunteers IYCN Project 2010, Infant Feeding and HIV:
Participant's manual for community - based workers and volunteers IYCN Project, Infant and Young Child Feeding and Gender: A Training Manual for Male Group Leaders and Participant Manual for Male Group Leaders IYCN Project 2012, Helping an HIV - positive breastfeeding mother decide how to feed her child at 12 months: A checklist for health care providers IYCN Project 2012, Community interventions to promote optimal breastfeeding; evidence on early initiation, any breastfeeding, exclusive breastfeeding and continued breastfeeding; literature review, January 2012 UNICEF 2011, Community IYCF Counselling Package - The technical content of this package reflects the Guidelines on HIV and Infant Feeding 2010: Principles and Recommendations for Infant Feeding in the Context of HIV and a Summary of Evidence related to IYCF in the cont
Participant's manual for community - based workers and volunteers IYCN Project, Infant and Young Child Feeding and Gender: A Training Manual for Male
Group Leaders and
Participant Manual for Male Group Leaders IYCN Project 2012, Helping an HIV - positive breastfeeding mother decide how to feed her child at 12 months: A checklist for health care providers IYCN Project 2012, Community interventions to promote optimal breastfeeding; evidence on early initiation, any breastfeeding, exclusive breastfeeding and continued breastfeeding; literature review, January 2012 UNICEF 2011, Community IYCF Counselling Package - The technical content of this package reflects the Guidelines on HIV and Infant Feeding 2010: Principles and Recommendations for Infant Feeding in the Context of HIV and a Summary of Evidence related to IYCF in the cont
Participant Manual for Male
Group Leaders IYCN Project 2012, Helping an HIV - positive breastfeeding mother decide how to feed her child at 12 months: A checklist for health care providers IYCN Project 2012, Community
interventions to promote optimal breastfeeding; evidence on early initiation, any breastfeeding, exclusive breastfeeding and continued breastfeeding; literature review, January 2012 UNICEF 2011, Community IYCF Counselling Package - The technical content of this package reflects the Guidelines on HIV and Infant Feeding 2010: Principles and Recommendations for Infant Feeding
in the Context of HIV and a Summary of Evidence related to IYCF
in the context of HIV.
For all outcomes,
in future updates, we plan to carry out analyses, as far as possible, on an intention - to - treat basis, i.e. we would attempt to include all
participants randomised to each
group in the analyses, and all
participants would be analysed
in the
group to which they were allocated, regardless of whether or not they received the allocated
intervention.
Among multiparous
participants, 27/29 (93 %)
in the
intervention group had previously breastfed, compared with 17/25 (68 %)
in the control
group.
Not all
intervention groups received the full
intervention.Of the 191
participants allocated to the
in - hospital support
group, 137 (71.7 %) received all 3 sessions, 52 (27.2 %) received 2 sessions, and 2 (1.0 %) received only 1 session before hospital discharge.
In order to avoid «double counting» in studies involving one control group and two different interventions groups, we split the control group number of events and participants in half, so that we could include two independent comparisons, as per methods described the Handbook [section16.5.4
In order to avoid «double counting»
in studies involving one control group and two different interventions groups, we split the control group number of events and participants in half, so that we could include two independent comparisons, as per methods described the Handbook [section16.5.4
in studies involving one control
group and two different
interventions groups, we split the control
group number of events and
participants in half, so that we could include two independent comparisons, as per methods described the Handbook [section16.5.4
in half, so that we could include two independent comparisons, as per methods described the Handbook [section16.5.4].
For the other six studies undertaken
in settings with Baby Friendly accreditation, study
interventions were additional to care that met Baby Friendly standards and were received by everyone at the hospital including all the study
participants in the
intervention and control
groups.
So, while
group intervention programs can play an important role
in preventing substance abuse, especially
in at - risk populations such as homeless youth, they can also inadvertently expose
participants to negative behaviors.
Now, researchers from the USC Center for Artificial Intelligence
in Society have created an algorithm that sorts
intervention program
participants — who are voluntarily working on recovery — into smaller
groups, or subgroups,
in a way that maintains helpful social connections and breaks social connections that could be detrimental to recovery.
«The shift
in assertiveness is small — HEART
participants were 5 percent more assertive than the control
group — but one of the key findings here is that a short, one - time
intervention can have a measureable impact on behavior,» Widman says.
Øyvind Holme, M.D., of the Sorlandet Hospital Kristiansand, Kristiansand, Norway and colleagues randomly assigned study
participants in Norway to receive once - only flexible sigmoidoscopy (n = 10, 283); a combination of once - only flexible sigmoidoscopy and fecal occult blood testing (FOBT; n = 10,289), or no
intervention (control
group; n = 78,220).
Participants in the third
intervention group were entered into a daily lottery incentive.
Across two different cohorts of students
in a college statistics class, the researchers randomly assigned half the student
participants to receive the
intervention prompt; the other half received no prompt, serving as the comparison
group.
After initial screening, the researchers randomized the study
participants into three
groups: a referral
group that received a list of treatment services; a brief
intervention group that received a motivational consultation and referral; and a third
group given a brief
intervention and treatment with buprenorphine that was continued
in primary care.
Their most powerful tool
in this job is the randomized controlled trial, a type of experiment
in which researchers separate
participants into two or more
groups and subject some of them to the
intervention to be studied, like a new drug or surgical procedure.
«Although electronic alcohol screening and brief counseling
interventions may have effects on
participants among subgroups of university students or among other
groups, the results of this study and others suggest that the effect of this type of
intervention among university students is modest at best,» write Timothy S. Naimi, M.D., M.P.H., of Boston Medical Center, Boston, and Thomas B. Cole, M.D., M.P.H., of JAMA, Chicago,
in an accompanying editorial.
Maria Carrillo, vice president of medical and scientific relations at the Alzheimer's Association, an advocacy
group, applauds NIH's giving the trial a green light: Targeting the APOE4 population will «increase the possibility that
participants in the trial will become symptomatic during the period of the study so that the scientists can assess whether the drug
intervention is having an impact on delaying or preventing Alzheimer's symptoms, without having to wait 10 or 15 years or more,» she says.
In this study, 41 rural towns (including a total of 77,658 newborns over the study period) were randomized to the
intervention (HBV vaccination for all newborns) or control (no vaccination)
groups, with two - thirds of the control
group participants receiving a catch - up vaccination at age 10 - 14 years.
In many trials, some participants are randomly assigned to the «control» group and receive an inactive «placebo» treatment or a standard intervention currently in use; sometimes the control subjects are later given a chance to try the experimental treatmen
In many trials, some
participants are randomly assigned to the «control»
group and receive an inactive «placebo» treatment or a standard
intervention currently
in use; sometimes the control subjects are later given a chance to try the experimental treatmen
in use; sometimes the control subjects are later given a chance to try the experimental treatment.
Quality of life was significantly higher
in participants randomized to the
intervention group, who demonstrated a statistically and clinically meaningful increase
in QOL at 12 weeks (P <.05 using the nonparametric Wilcoxon test).31, 32 Median survival was almost 5 months longer
in the
intervention group.
In addition, participants randomized to the intervention group in our study lived 4.9 months longer than those in usual care, although this difference was not statistically significant because of the heterogeneity of survival among our participant
In addition,
participants randomized to the
intervention group in our study lived 4.9 months longer than those in usual care, although this difference was not statistically significant because of the heterogeneity of survival among our participant
in our study lived 4.9 months longer than those
in usual care, although this difference was not statistically significant because of the heterogeneity of survival among our participant
in usual care, although this difference was not statistically significant because of the heterogeneity of survival among our
participants.
Researchers that examined the efficacy of echinacea
in a randomized controlled trial also asked
participants about any potential adverse effects that took place
in the placebo
groups compared to the
intervention.
The dietary approach followed by
participants in the study
intervention group was the «ModiMedDiet» which is based on the Australian Dietary guidelines and the Dietary Guidelines for Adults
in Greece.
Biomarkers for the
participants in each
group were measured at 3 months and 6 months, and 70 % of the
intervention participants were followed up after 12 months.
Beginning on October 1, 2003,
participants were randomly assigned,
in a 1:1:1 ratio, to one of three dietary
intervention groups: a Mediterranean diet supplemented with extra-virgin olive oil, a Mediterranean diet supplemented with nuts, or a control diet.
Results: Sixty
participants (82 %)
in the low - fat
group and 59 (79 %)
in the low - carbohydrate
group completed the
intervention.
Participants in the two
intervention groups were encouraged to lose 5 % of their baseline weight within 6 months and to maintain the reduced weight until the end of the study.
Participants in the standard intervention and enhanced intervention groups did not differ significantly for fat mass, lean mass, percent body fat, bone mineral content, bone mineral density, or cardiorespiratory fitness (P ≥.05 for all), although there were significant changes across time among all participants (P <.01 for al
Participants in the standard
intervention and enhanced
intervention groups did not differ significantly for fat mass, lean mass, percent body fat, bone mineral content, bone mineral density, or cardiorespiratory fitness (P ≥.05 for all), although there were significant changes across time among all
participants (P <.01 for al
participants (P <.01 for all for time).
Participants in the enhanced
intervention group self - monitored their dietary patterns using the technology described below.
During months 7 to 24,
participants in the standard
intervention group self - reported their daily intake using a website designed for this study, and this information was available to the staff during the
intervention telephone contacts.
We excluded trials concerning calcium and vitamin D given together with a placebo comparator (trials were only eligible if vitamin D was given to both
intervention and control
groups, because vitamin D supplementation has been associated with decreased mortality17); trials
in which calcium was administered
in the form of dietary modification or a complex nutritional supplement; and trials
in which most
participants had a major systemic disease other than osteoporosis.
In this study phase,
participants assigned to the Dreampad Pillow ® and iRest ® meditation
groups began to use these
interventions while continuing the sleep hygiene protocol.
Twenty years after students participated
in the program, John Holbein, a researcher at Princeton and the new study's author, matched Fast Track
participants — now adults — to state voter files and found that those
in the
intervention group voted at a rate 11 to 14 percentage points higher than their peers
in the control
group, a significant boost considering that get - out - the - vote programs typically boost turnout by only 1 to 4 percentage points.
The Scope of this project is to: - Provide seed funding and support pilot implementation of ideas resulting from the June 2014 design workshop on improving outcomes for babies
in foster care; - Launch pilots of co-designed strategies for working collaboratively with parents
in creating daily, regularized family routines
in four sites and evaluate executive function skills, child development, child literacy and parental stress levels of
participants pre -, during, and post-
intervention; - Build a core
group of leaders to help set the strategic direction for Frontiers of Innovation (FOI) and take on leadership for parts of the portfolio; - With Phil Fisher at the University of Oregon and Holly Schindler at the University of Washington develop a measurement and data collection framework and infrastructure in order to collect data from FOI - sponsored pilots and increase cross-site and cross-strategy learning; Organize Building Adult Capabilities Working Group to identify, measure and develop strategies related to executive function and emotional regulation for adults facing high levels of adversity and produce summary report in the fall of 2014 that reviews the knowledge base in this area and implications for intervention, including approaches that impact two generat
group of leaders to help set the strategic direction for Frontiers of Innovation (FOI) and take on leadership for parts of the portfolio; - With Phil Fisher at the University of Oregon and Holly Schindler at the University of Washington develop a measurement and data collection framework and infrastructure
in order to collect data from FOI - sponsored pilots and increase cross-site and cross-strategy learning; Organize Building Adult Capabilities Working
Group to identify, measure and develop strategies related to executive function and emotional regulation for adults facing high levels of adversity and produce summary report in the fall of 2014 that reviews the knowledge base in this area and implications for intervention, including approaches that impact two generat
Group to identify, measure and develop strategies related to executive function and emotional regulation for adults facing high levels of adversity and produce summary report
in the fall of 2014 that reviews the knowledge base
in this area and implications for
intervention, including approaches that impact two generations.
Learning under faculty members from both universities,
participants engage
in large -
group «
interventions,» small
group discussions, and case study analysis.
In between these interventions, small group discussions are held every four to six weeks, in which participants identify emerging challenges and develop plans for improvemen
In between these
interventions, small
group discussions are held every four to six weeks,
in which participants identify emerging challenges and develop plans for improvemen
in which
participants identify emerging challenges and develop plans for improvement.