Sentences with phrase «controlled intervention studies»

Future research could involve secondary analyses of Australian national datasets and prospective longitudinal studies, primary cohort studies, and well controlled intervention studies.

In addition, the risk of bias in controlled intervention studies which contain comparative information on effectiveness will be appraised using conventional systematic review methods.23

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 constituted part of the extensive, population - based DR's EXTRA study, which was a four - year randomised and controlled intervention study analysing the effects of exercise and nutrition on endothelial function, atherosclerosis and cognition.

Ingestion of yogurt containing Lactobacillus acidophilus and Bifidobacterium lactis significantly decreases activity of Helicobacter pylori after six weeks, according to the results of a placebo - controlled intervention study published in the September 2004 issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

A double - blind placebo - controlled intervention study on 60 dogs recruited from a pool of canine patients visiting a veterinary practice and diagnosed with acute diarrhea was conducted.

Kasari C, Freeman S, Paparella T. Joint attention and symbolic play in young children with autism: a randomized controlled intervention study.

Not exact matches

Living Goods told us at that time that the results from the RCT were not going to be reliable due to spillover of the intervention into control locations and incorrect matching of the treatment area and the treatment survey area — issues that reduce the statistical power of the study.1

Dr. Laugeson has been a principal investigator and collaborator on a number of studies funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) investigating social skills training for youth with developmental disabilities from preschool to early adulthood and is the co-developer of an evidence - based social skills intervention for teens and young adults known as PEERS.

And Dr Jonathan Scourfield at the Cardiff School of Social Sciences is undertaking a feasibility study for a randomised controlled trial of a training intervention to improve the engagement of fathers in the child protection system.

• In another randomized controlled study of an intervention designed to reduce smoking in expectant fathers, addressing the mothers alone resulted in 5 % of the fathers» quitting, while addressing the father directly resulted in a 15 % quit rate (McBride et al, 2004).

A larger study, with randomization to intervention and control groups might help define whether changes were attributable to the intervention, to differences at baseline, or to other influences.

But this doesn't make sense for everything we do in health care, and we know the information we get from randomized controlled trials doesn't always translate well to real life because 1) the restrictions we put on eligibility for studies rarely allows the results to be generalized to the population as a whole and 2) Adherence to the intervention tends to be higher in a randomized controlled trial than in real life which makes the effect seem «better» than it is.

To describe forms of breastfeeding support which have been evaluated in controlled studies, the timing of the interventions and the settings in which they have been used.

The Leslie and Romano study found that nonhospital birth results in far fewer interventions, such as cesarean sections, use of intravenous fluids, and use of medical pain control.

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

«It is crucial that we have more randomized controlled trials on interventions to increase breastfeeding rather than relying on heavily confounded observational studies or biased expert opinion.»

Studies have shown that home - based newborn care interventions can prevent 30 — 60 % of newborn deaths in high mortality settings under controlled conditions.

No studies comparing parenting programmes with a control group evaluated outcomes past 6 months and only a minority (n = 5) compared 2 alternative interventions between 1 and 3 years.

The table provides information about study population characteristics; details of intervention and control groups; main results; quality assessment of studies and the outcome measure contributing to the meta - analysis.

In order to study all aspects related to the topic, we used a reference questionnaire prepared by nutrition and breastfeeding experts, which had been tested, modified and validated two months before our research team1 started the study (following a pilot study conducted on 20 women to determine whether the questions were clear and understandable), and then administered in a standardized fashion to women in both groups (intervention group and control group).

The aim of this study was to evaluate adherence to the Neonatal Resuscitation Program algorithm by subjects working from memory as compared to subjects using a decision support tool that provides auditory and visual prompts to guide implementation of the Neonatal Resuscitation Program algorithm during simulated neonatal resuscitation.Healthcare professionals (physicians, nurse practitioners, obstetrical / neonatal nurses) with a current NRP card were randomized to the control or intervention group and performed three simulated neonatal resuscitations.

During the study period, the women recruited were divided into two groups: an intervention group and a control group.

In this study, the intervention group was compared with an attention control group (taught prenatal and childbirth material by an advanced practice nurse + peer counselor) and a usual care group (controls).

In the study by Merewood et al. (27), the rate of any breastfeeding at 12 wk PP was considerably higher in the intervention group than in controls (OR: 2.81, 95 % CI: 1.11 — 7.14; P = 0.03).

But all studies that were evaluated included comparisons between parent - child book reading intervention groups who received training, supportive materials or other encouraging services, and control groups that did not.

The intervention tested by Bonuck et al. (31) yielded impressive results with significantly higher rates of any breastfeeding through 20 wk PP, with the exception of week 18 (53 vs. 39 %, P < 0.05) and greater breastfeeding intensity (defined as more than half of feedings derived from breast milk in this study) through 9 wk (46 vs. 33 %, P < 0.05) in the intervention (vs. control) group.

This study is a randomized clinical trial (RCT) with 50 mother / infant pairs in the intervention arm, 50 in one control group and 25 in a third control group.

However, available research (e.g., waitlist - controlled pilot studies) suggests that behavioral / cognitive - behavioral interventions and pharmacotherapy with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are effective for treating SM.

The authors who interviewed the fathers of the intervention group (M.A.) and of the control group (P.C.) were unaware of the study hypothesis, and they were asked independently to cooperate in a parental education project.

The study groups were similar in most respects, and also the frequency of perinatal hospital practices that are likely to influence breastfeeding, such as early mother — newborn contact and rooming - in, was identical between intervention and control groups (Table 2).

A total of 876 women were followed up in the 3 study groups: Intervention 1 (285 women), Intervention 2 (294 women) and Control (297 women).

Two new studies (the BINGO trial, Bonuck 2014a; Fu 2014), contribute two intervention arms to the analysis, and we have split the controls to avoid double - counting.

However, in the study by Yotebieng 2015, the intervention was the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) so the control group did not access this.

The aim of the study was to examine the uptake of this service (i.e. reasons for and number of calls to the help - line and to other hospital departments from control and intervention women).

Loss to follow - up in control group was 18 % and 8.4 % in intervention group; authors stated baseline characteristics of women who were lost to follow - up in each measurement were similar to women who remained in the study.

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].

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.

The study conducted in Philadelphia is believed to be the first randomized controlled trial to test inexpensive interventions that restore vacant urban land and reduce violence and fear among residents.

(1) In this study — the LIFEstyle study performed in the Netherlands — 290 women were assigned to a 6 - month lifestyle - intervention programme preceding 18 months of infertility treatment (intervention group) while 287 women were assigned to prompt infertility treatment over the same 24 month study period (control group).

The researchers analyzed 37 unique studies of mobile health interventions, looking for statistical evidence of changes in health behavior or disease control in participants 18 years old or younger.

Their joint study — published on July 25, 2017 in JAMA — tested a mobile health intervention with the potential to positively impact attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived control — those TPB variables that affect caregivers» adherence to safe sleep practices, as shown by Colson's research.

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).

This is the latest study from the Cooperative Lifestyle Intervention Program (CLIP - II), a single - blind, randomized controlled trial.

«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 studies.

We started studying interventions used to control the outbreak, most recently looking at the effect of media coverage.»

To get around that problem, this study used the Bradford Hill criteria: a standard tool for assessing the impact of broad - based public health interventions where it is ethically not feasible or operationally impractical to conduct randomized controlled trials.

«This study suggests that worksite environmental interventions might be promising strategies for weight control at the population level,» said Fernandez.

Two groups of lactating women participated in highly - controlled single - blinded cross-over dietary intervention studies to evaluate if maternal diet plays a significant role in structuring the taxonomic and metagenomic composition of the breast milk microbiome.

Study participants» control of individual and composite factors was also examined in relation to the occurrence of new cardiovascular events (including heart attacks, coronary deaths, strokes, heart failure, percutaneous interventions and bypass surgeries) over an average follow - up of 11 years.