Sentences with phrase «associate as an intervention»

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It is being increasingly accepted by disciplines associated with infants, children and adults with tongue tie that there is now no place for «wait and see» policies when the frenum has been identified and diagnosed as abnormal, and early intervention is the optimal form of management.

planning birth in an obstetric unit is associated with a higher rate of interventions, such as instrumental vaginal birth, caesarean section and episiotomy, compared with planning birth in other settings

Pitocin increases the risk of other interventions, such as IV fluids and cesarean section, which are associated with breastfeeding problems.

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 interventionAs 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 interventionas well as with current research and state - of - the - art interventionas with current research and state - of - the - art interventions.

We did not find any evidence that the Baby Friendly intervention was associated with inequity of benefit by maternal characteristics as suggested elsewhere.35 Our findings suggest that implementation of the UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative in isolation is unlikely to be effective in extending the duration of breastfeeding.

Previous attempts to evaluate the Baby Friendly Initiative within an observational study design have often been limited by small sample size or reliance upon ecological measures of confounding factors.16, 17 The advantage of the Millennium Cohort Study is the availability of individual - level social and demographic information, as well as the circumstances of pregnancy and delivery, allowing adjustment for factors that in other studies may be associated with both policy intervention and infant feeding practices, via area or individual population differences.

The effect of these kinds of supports on home visitors has not been well studied, but some research on similar interventions indicates implementation of evidence - based practices with fidelity monitoring and supportive consultation predicts lower rates of staff turnover, as well as lower levels of staff emotional exhaustion relative to services as usual.29, 30,31 Moreover, a supportive organizational climate has been associated with more positive attitudes toward adoption of evidence - based programs.32

According to the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, while home birth is associated with fewer maternal interventions compared to a planned hospital birth (such as labor induction and c - sections), it holds more than twice the risk for perinatal death — or death within the first week of life.

The fathers of the intervention group were interviewed and offered a face - to - face, 40 - minute session about infant feeding and the difficulties sometimes associated with breastfeeding, such as fear of milk insufficiency; transitional lactation crisis; return to outside employment; and problems such as breast engorgement, mastitis, sore and inverted nipples, and breast refusal.

Dr Boamah mentioned the Atuabo Gas Processing Plant; Kumasi Shoe Factory; Komenda Sugar Factory, Elmina Fish Processing Factory; Buipe Shea Factory; Bolgatanga Meat Processing Factory and the Tamne Irrigation Project and its associated agricultural prospects as some of the interventions that would create jobs for the citizenry.

As Nick Watt notes, David Miliband's backbench intervention in a recent economic debate — I clocked it myself here — triggered speculation that he really ought to take over the shadow chancellor's job from Balls, who has what Stalinists used to call «a spoiled biography» — closely associated with the discredited regime of Gordon Brown.

«If this insight proves correct,» said Jonathan Posner, MD, lead author and Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at CUMC, «behavioral interventions that improve the functioning of the DMN, such as meditation and mindfulness, could be used to address a brain - based problem (increased DMN connections), before it leads to a depressive illness.»

Yonju Ha, a lead author of this article, said that further studies on this receptor and its role in white blood cell recruitment following tissue injury may aid in the development of new interventions for diseases associated with nerve injury, such as TON, stroke, diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma.

Teen dating violence can provide a point of potential intervention as specific types of TDV have been associated with increased alcohol and tobacco use, depressive symptoms and suicidality, eating disorders, and high - risk sexual behavior, according to the study background.

«These results are important as they help demonstrate that alcohol use is associated with an increase in suicide risk, and that this increase may be partially due to insomnia symptoms,» said principal investigator Michael Nadorff, PhD, assistant professor at Mississippi State University in Starkville, Miss. «By better understanding this relationship, and the mechanisms associated with increased risk, we can better design interventions to reduce suicide risk.»

«Shedding light on trends in the burden of stroke among Medicare beneficiaries may provide important information for policy purposes, including describing the past and current scope of the condition, assessing the potential effect of stroke prevention interventions on a national level, and identifying areas where resources can be targeted more specifically and effectively,» says lead investigator Margaret C. Fang, MD, MPH, an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, who also serves as the Medical Director of the UCSF Anticoagulation Clinic.

More importantly, the intervention was associated with overall marriage quality: As in other research, more positive automatic reactions to the partner predicted greater improvements in marital satisfaction over the course of the study.

«Preclinical evidence suggests that dietary interventions, such as calorie restriction, intermittent fasting, low - fat diet and the ketogenic diet, have the potential to reverse some of these obesity - associated alterations; however, more clinical data are needed to confirm translation to human subjects.»

At the end of the eight sessions, the intervention was associated with significant increases in the students» life satisfaction, as well as a significant decrease in depression and anxiety, when compared to students who did not participate in the training.

While deaths from infectious diseases have been steadily declining as a result of research and medical intervention, preterm birth has remained a much more difficult problem, say the authors of a recent study that collated child mortality rates and their associated causes between 2000 and 2013.

The researchers note that although the FDA in the past has treated all vaginal mesh implants as equivalent, the intervention rates for mesh - based complications in procedures for SUI appear to be lower than those associated with procedures for pelvic organ prolapse.

Specific interventions associated with traditional Chinese medicine, such as acupuncture and therapeutic massage, reduced gastrointestinal disruptions after surgery, and acupuncture also lessened fatigue in cancer patients, the researchers report in the journal Oncotarget.

The supplement examines the issues surrounding distracted driving by teens, exploring developmental states and changes that are associated with adolescents» distractibility and their relation to driving, examining patterns of distraction among newly licensed adolescents as well as brain function, considering the potential role played by parental modeling of distracted behavior while driving, accounting for the role of technology and the influence of peer passengers and society norms, and investigating policy, legislation, and intervention.

«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.

Researchers found that as a result of the intervention, healthcare - associated infections decreased, including evaluations for late - onset sepsis, with an average reduction of 2.65 late - onset sepsis evaluations per year and per provider.

«More importantly, these findings encourage the search for personalized music - based interventions for the treatment of brain disorders associated with aberrant dopaminergic neurotransmission as well as abnormal mood and emotion - related brain activity.»

Theoretically, a sustained increase could stabilize or even lengthen telomeres over time, as shown in a previous study where intensive lifestyle intervention led to higher telomerase activity after 4 months, and longer telomeres after 5 years, with such changes associated with better adherence.43, 44

Numerous international publications testify to the research group's commitment to identifying metabolic and molecular pathways as potential targets for innovative therapies that combine nutraceutical intervention and physical exercise, for the prevention and treatment of insulin resistance, of diabetes and associated complications.

In addition we structured the publications according to the research questions, such as the differences in brain activity associated with acupuncture stimuli between patients and healthy volunteers, to provide a good overview and a strong basis for future study designs, interventions, measurement methods, and possible diagnoses.

Wu says his lab will investigate the role that localized protein synthesis plays in the growth and connection of neurons — work that ultimately could lead to new interventions for conditions such as autism and Alzheimer's disease, which are associated with a dysregulation of localized protein production.

Perry Renshaw, MD, PhD, director of the Brain Imaging Center at McLean Hospital and senior author stated, «The development of an inexpensive, widely available intervention such as yoga that has no side effects but is effective in alleviating the symptoms of disorders associated with low GABA levels has clear public health advantage.

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.

Given the time constraints, Coleman used the proportion of variance in student achievement associated with various educational inputs — such as schools, teacher characteristics, student - reported parental characteristics, and peer characteristics — as a type of divining rod for identifying promising targets for intervention.

It is the intent of Response to Intervention (RtI) to combine important features of assessment with instruction, as well as address many of the limitations currently associated with aptitude - achievement discrepancy models of Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD) identification.

Other approaches, such as Parental engagement and Social and emotional learning programmes, are often associated with reported improvements in school ethos or discipline, but are not included in this summary which is limited to interventions that focus directly on behaviour.

Determine student characteristics and contextual factors associated with response to intervention as a means of informing treatment decisions and to determine the extent to which student characteristics (e.g., memory, motivation) and contextual factors (e.g., teacher knowledge, school effectiveness ratings, neighborhood access to literacy) can predict response to intervention initially and longitudinally.

We interpret the findings as indicating that systematic studies are needed that (a) investigate alternative interventions with students prior to middle school and that (b) examine the efficacy of interventions that integrate practices associated with cognitive malleability (executive functioning and self - regulation) into the treatments.

Dr. Eckert was appointed as a Technical Review Committee member of the National Center Intervention and is an Associate Editor of School Psychology Review.

A student with a retail job at Levi's got high school credit for management training that would not have been part of his job as a sales associate without the school's intervention.

Kristen serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Early Intervention and on the Editorial Board of Journal of School Psychology.

These differ in that one involves early surgical intervention as a preventive measure while the other focuses on alieviating the pain and lameness associated with an unstable arthritic hip joint.

Ostrowitz currently works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as a Research Associate for the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas and has published two books: Privileging the Past: Reconstructing History in Northwest Coast Art and Interventions: Native American Art for Far - Flung Territories.

As with all human interventions, it is important to consider entire processes and their associated impacts rather than seeking simple criteria upon which to base our decisions.

And if you believe, as do many conservatives, that government intervention in markets and in social arrangements should be kept to a minimum, you can find factual support for your views in the long - term unpredictability of regional climate behavior, the significant economic and social costs associated with shifting to more expensive energy sources, and the historical failure of government efforts to steer large - scale social and economic change.

When the victim is a baby who is harmed by delays in treatment after fetal distress was obvious, a joyous event can become devastating as families endure the emotional roller coaster of intensive medical interventions for their baby, and try to deal with the financial costs associated.

Candidate with a Master's degree in Behavioral Sciences and thorough working experience towards implementation of behavioral interventions for problems associated with children, seeks to work as a behavioral aide in a leading health care organization.

• Accompanied psychologist to cases • Provided preliminary support such as taking information and recording histories • Assisted in planning and implementing psychological intervention programs • Supported program development initiatives • Managed paperwork associated with managing intervention programs

It also includes a discussion of RTI (Response - to - Intervention) trials for sub-threshold cases of attachment - based «parental alienation,» and Appendices presenting samples of potential «Treatment Needs Assessment» reports that can be produced from an attachment - based model of «parental alienation, as well as a set of associated clinical features and a checklist for diagnostic indicators and associated clinical features.

In a world - first, nib foundation's funding support will enable Smiling Mind to conduct the largest evaluation of an app - based mindfulness intervention program - to measure the impact of their program on increasing the protective factors associated with mental health and wellbeing such as social connection, sleep quality, and developing personal coping skills and resilience to deal with the stresses of everyday life.

Our sample can be characterized as high risk (baseline ECBI T score > 55) 42 or at the borderline of clinical (T score > 60), 34 which is typical of previous randomized clinical trials of parent training for young children.41 The results across methods in this study are impressive given that effect sizes have been shown to be associated with the magnitude of symptom severity at baseline, 43 and thus it is typically more difficult to find large effects in prevention than in intervention trials.