Sentences with phrase «design of effective intervention»

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Studies designed to test the effectiveness of intervention in the extension of breastfeeding to six months have concluded that prenatal education on breastfeeding is not enough to extend the duration, and that intervention during both prenatal and postnatal periods might be more effective [16].

There is a need for well - designed, adequately powered studies of interventions designed for women with twins or higher order multiples to find out what types of education and support are effective in helping these mothers to breastfeed their babies.

Understanding how heritage destruction is implicated in the trajectory of these conflicts will enable U.S. policymakers and other humanitarian agencies working in conflict zones to design more effective interventions.

«Our results indicate that this simple intervention could be an effective and scalable approach to use the design of electronic health records to increase the rate of flu vaccinations, which are estimated to prevent millions of flu cases and tens of thousands of related hospitalizations every year,» said study lead author Mitesh S. Patel, MD, MBA, MS, an assistant professor of Medicine and Health Care Management in Penn's Perelman School of Medicine and The Wharton School, a staff physician at the Crescenz VA Medical Center, and director of the Penn Medicine Nudge Unit, whose work is supported by the Penn Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics.

It might also lead to the development of effective interventions designed to boost memory for important information.

Researchers say understanding daily patterns of physical activity could help design more effective interventions.

«One of the implications in this project is to be able to identify whom might be at greatest risk for depression following a natural disaster, so we may be able to design some sort of intervention that targets those individuals, and it is more cost effective in that way.»

«A better understanding of the pathways activated by telomere fragments and their contribution to fetal membrane senescence may contribute to the design of more effective labor assessment, perhaps including preterm birth risk and direct medical interventions for labor induction or prevention.»

Interventions designed to reduce alcohol use among fraternity members are no more effective than no intervention at all, according to an analysis of 25 years of research involving over 6,000 university students published by the American Psychological Association.

«Given that marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug by high school students in the U.S., having a better understanding of how marijuana use affects future SC use and vice versa is essential for designing effective prevention and intervention programs.»

Three interventions designed for follow up of patients who are identified with suicide risk in hospital emergency departments save lives and are cost effective relative to usual care.

Thus, interventions designed to prevent the accumulation of VF are likely to represent an effective mean to improve carbohydrate metabolism in aging.

Beyond its contribution to the design of more effective teaching strategies, science can help policymakers and civic leaders understand how adverse, early childhood experiences disrupt brain architecture, and how effective interventions can shift the odds toward more favorable outcomes.

In keeping with our rapidly growing innovation agenda, the Center must continue to explore new ways of using a variety of media and advanced technologies to catalyze creative thinking across disciplines and sectors, to support the design and testing of more effective interventions, and to disseminate our findings in a way that transforms the policy and practice climate, both in the United States and globally.

Our approach to achieving this goal focuses on three objectives: (1) to develop a reliable, predictive panel of biomarkers (including both biological and bio-behavioral measures) that can identify children, youth, and parents showing evidence of toxic stress, and that can be collected in pediatric primary care settings; (2) to conduct basic, animal and human research on critical periods in development and individual differences in stress susceptibility, thereby informing the timing and design of a suite of new interventions that address the roots of stress - related diseases early in the life cycle; and (3) to build a strong, community - based infrastructure through which scientists, practitioners, parents, and community leaders can apply new scientific insights and innovative measures to the development of more effective interventions in the first three postnatal years.

It is only by understanding how these local leaders actually make decisions, and the role of research in this process, that we can begin to design interventions that promote more effective uses of research.

Multi-Tiered Systems of Support for Behavior (MTSS - B) is not a specific model but a compilation of effective practices, interventions, and systems change strategies that are designed to prevent student behavior problems and promote student achievement.

Each such employee shall be required to complete at least one training course in school violence prevention and intervention, which shall consist of at least two clock hours of training that includes but is not limited to, study in the warning signs within a developmental and social context that relate to violence and other troubling behaviors in children; the statutes, regulations, and policies relating to a safe nonviolent school climate; effective classroom management techniques and other academic supports that promote a nonviolent school climate and enhance learning; the integration of social and problem solving skill development for students within the regular curriculum; intervention techniques designed to address a school violence situation; and how to participate in an effective school / community referral process for students exhibiting violent behavior.

But we have also found that without an understanding of how struggling students learn, the interventions we design are less than likely to be effective.

A lot of the time we spend together is analyzing student work and test data so we can design more effective ways of helping students in areas of high intervention.»

Courses examine effective practices in reading and writing, including reading and writing across the curriculum, successful approaches to literacy assessment, intervention strategies, and designs for differentiating instruction that address the needs of all learners.

Designed to be a key component of effective blended learning, Tutorials are enabling teachers to effectively prepare students for high - stakes assessments, deliver targeted remediation and intervention, and enhance classroom instruction.

(a) Provides employment and / or practicum experiences with adolescents in urban public school settings; (b) Provides ongoing support in the development of skills necessary to be an effective group facilitator, utilizing a science - based affective curriculum; (c) Heightens facilitators» understanding of the cultural and contextual factors that impact the psychosocial development of urban adolescents and their ability to achieve academically; (d) Exposes facilitators to the process of designing, implementing and evaluating large scale preventive interventions; (e) Examines educational policy and its implications for practice and research for urban education and school reform; and (f) Encourages facilitators» interest and pursuit of careers in education, psychology social work, counseling and / or other related fields.

Our content prepares participants to lead teams in the design and delivery of effective accommodations, modifications, and interventions within general education settings.

While effective teaching practice is being embedded throughout the school, we work with school and district staff to design formative assessments to capture student learning, and we oversee the implementation and progress of instructional interventions for students who need additional support.

This credit / no - credit continuing education course is designed to help develop educators» theoretical and practical knowledge of effective, research - based assessment and intervention for struggling readers of all ages who have reached a primer level, but whose reading abilities are below mid-grade three level.

The mainstream view is that this was the result of insufficient regulation (e.g. repeal of Glass Steagall, non-regulation of derivatives, effective elimination of bank reserve requirements, etc.) The Austrian view is that this was the result of too much regulation / gov» t intervention (e.g. repetitive bank bailouts over the past few decades which ingrained a culture of privatizing profits and socializing risks, the «Greenspan / Bernanke put» designed to inject liquidity whenever the stock market goes down, and regulations dating back to the 1930's such as FDIC insurance which, for example, eliminates the incentive for consumers to select their banks based on conservative lending practices.

As someone reasonably schooled in the dark arts of public policy I'm doubtful of the utility of a social cost of ghg for designing effective interventions.

In that quest, click here for her (positive) critique of Google Accounts Privacy Checkup, culminating in these recommendations for designing an effective strategy for a legal health check - up «intervention»:

The recommendations are designed to meet the challenges of contemporary civil caseloads by taking advantage of modern technologies and highly trained court staff to provide effective oversight and timely intervention to move civil cases to resolution.

Academic Advisor — Duties & Responsibilities Recruit, train, direct, and review academic advisors and support staff ensuring effective operations Advise students in the selection of majors, minors, concentrations, and basic course load Utilize education and experience to provide students with career and personal counseling Assist students in the initiation and completion of the transfer process Responsible for the completion and coordination of all relevant paperwork Provide support to all academic departments, chairpersons, faculty, and junior advisors Coordinate School of Business Convocation and Graduation ceremonies Organize and conduct academic tutorials, workshops, and faculty presentations Design and implement Probation Program to address academic and social needs of at risk students Set academic goals, monitor progress, and provide steady encouragement and guidance Create and author departmental newsletters detailing important news and upcoming events Organize social events for students to build community and encourage healthy relationships Perform crisis intervention management for students facing personal challenges Study university literature to become an expert on all academic regulations and policies Oversee department budgets ensuring cost effective daily operations Build and strengthen professional relationships with colleagues, students, and community leaders Represent university with poise, integrity, and positivity

These co-morbidities, which also include alcohol and drug use, must be considered in the design of effective, accessible interventions.

A key policy question in this area of research is whether steps to redistribute income from richer to poorer families are more cost - effective than intervention programs designed to prevent or treat psychosocial problems.

Group parenting programmes have been shown to have a positive impact on the mental health of children and parents in the short term.9 — 12 Positive results have been obtained from randomised controlled trials and other studies with parents of children with clinically defined behaviour disorders, 9,13,14 children at high risk of behaviour problems, 9,15 and to a lesser extent with normal populations.16, 17 They have also been obtained in trials of interventions for parents and children of different ages.18, 19 The number of trials carried out in the UK is small.13, 15,20,21 A recent systematic review concluded that these programmes are effective in the long term, 12 but most of the trials on which this review was based used a waiting list control design, and as a result outcome data are not reported on the control groups beyond 6 months.

A Review of Evidence - Based Approaches for Reduction of Alcohol Consumption in Native Women Who Are Pregnant or of Reproductive Age (PDF - 150 KB) Montag, Clapp, Calac, Gorman, & Chambers (2012) The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 38 (5) Determines the number of publications that have quantitatively evaluated interventions among American Indian and Alaskan Native women and identifies interventions that may prove useful in designing effective prevention and treatment programs.

His interests include understanding the development of antisocial behavior and substance abuse in children and adolescents, as well as designing effective interventions and prevention programs.

Usually, these intervention programs are designed to enhance parental sensitivity, the ability to accurately perceive children's attachment signals, and the ability to respond to these signals in a prompt and appropriate manner.2 The ultimate goal of these interventions is to turn insecure - avoidant (A) and insecure - resistant (C) attachment relationships into secure (B) child - parent attachment relationships.2 In a few programs, the intervention is not only directed at sensitive parental behaviour but also at maternal mental attachment representations, as in the STEEP (Steps Toward Effective Enjoyable Parenting) program described by Egeland.

The effective reduction of toxic stress in young children could be advanced considerably by a broad - based, multisector commitment in which the profession of pediatrics plays an important role in designing, implementing, evaluating, refining, and advocating for a new generation of protective interventions.

«A step - by - step guide that facilitates the design and implementation of effective behavior support plans... interventions are developmentally appropriate and consistent with the values of early educators.»

In a meta - analysis of interventions designed to promote maternal sensitivity and child attachment in early childhood, Bakermans - Kranenburg 2003 concluded that interventions were more effective when they included a component of video feedback with families.

Effective day care - kindergarten interventions designed to prevent chronic aggression are essential to the long - term psychological well - being of children between 2 and 5 years age.

The design and delivery of effective interventions to address challenging behavior in young children is a critical concern for practitioners, families, and researchers.

The same group then undertook a developmental group psychotherapy programme designed to focus on the multiple clinical problems typical in this population (depression, experience of abuse, behavioural disorder, substance misuse, poor self esteem and body image, and family conflict and disruption) and to combine effectively with other interventions (pharmacotherapy, individual and family therapies) using a group therapy format that was cost - effective of clinician time.