Sentences with phrase «effectiveness of the intervention compared»

An economic evaluation will also be carried out to assess the cost - effectiveness of the intervention compared to treatment as usual.

Not exact matches

One of these countries is the UK, which has one of the lowest breastfeeding rates in Europe, 2 with rates conspicuously below those of Scandinavian countries; only 22 % of UK infants receive any breast milk at age 6 months3 compared with 72 % in Sweden.4 Although a number of interventions have been introduced and targets set5 — 8 to increase rates of breastfeeding initiation and duration in the UK, evidence for their effectiveness is limited.

Studies of home visiting's effectiveness as an intervention designed to prevent child maltreatment demonstrate some promise, but compared to the number of studies conducted that measure child maltreatment, risk for maltreatment, or protective factors, there are far more findings of no effects than reductions in maltreatment and improvements in child and family well - being.

Authors did say however, «Our primary goal was to evaluate the effectiveness of MI by comparing intent to breastfeed, breastfeeding self efficacy, and duration of breastfeeding between mothers receiving the MI intervention and those receiving attention alone»

To guide the spending of that money, the National Institute of Medicine made a priority list of situations for which data about outcomes are badly needed — for instance, comparing the effectiveness of various medical and behavioral interventions to prevent the elderly from falling (the complications of which are a leading cause of death), comparing assorted drugs and surgeries alone or in combination in the treatment of specific cancers, comparing the effectiveness of different implants and devices for treating hearing loss, and so forth.

The team compared the effectiveness of nudge - type strategies with more standard policy interventions, calculating the ratio between an intervention's causal effect and its implementation cost.

Finally, DC should better collect and organize data on other programs to compare the cost - effectiveness of OSP to other interventions aimed at low - income students.

In the long run, the effectiveness of these interventions could be monitored by comparing IQ tests administered to the same children before and after an intervention.

The effectiveness of the randomisation procedure was validated by comparing the intervention and control group at baseline using a series of χ2 and t - tests.

This outcome study sought to provide preliminary data on the effectiveness of two interventions for couples, comparing the self - help book Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love, to the 8 - week relationship course, The Hold Me Tight Program: Conversations for Connection, which includes reading the book at home.

This outcome study sought to provide preliminary data on the effectiveness of two interventions for couples, comparing the self - help book

Comparing the clinical - effectiveness and cost - effectiveness of an internet - delivered Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) intervention with a waiting list control among adults with chronic pain: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

Lisa completed her Masters in Educational and Developmental psychology thesis on comparing the effectiveness of cognitive behavioural therapy interventions for children with anxiety.

Given the likely lower cost of targeted pediatric primary care interventions compared with home - based programs, 34 cost - effectiveness analyses will be needed to better understand implications for public health policy.

We therefore have to compare the cost - effectiveness of this intervention with the cost - effectiveness of other depression treatments for adults.

We could also evaluate this intervention by comparing its cost - effectiveness with that of similar interventions.

The size of the CfC impacts on most outcomes was small, but can be considered positive relative to what was observed in the early phase of the UK Sure Start evaluation.3 The current results are also comparable in size to those found in the later impact evaluation of the Sure Start programme, in which 3 - year - old children were exposed to mature SSLP throughout their entire lives.4 Reviews of the effectiveness of early childhood interventions have found that most studies reported effect sizes on parenting and child outcomes that were small to moderate.14 15 When comparing CfC and SSLP with other interventions, it is important to remember that the evaluations of these interventions measured effects on an entire population, rather than on programme participants, as is the case in the evaluation of many other interventions.

The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of both functional behavior assessment - based interventions and targeted classroom interventions for reducing problem behaviors of children with emotional / behavioral disorders (EBD) in special education classrooms.Specifically, this study was interested in how interventions based on changes in classroom routines and instructional behaviors compared with interventions based on functional behavior assessment.Results demonstrated the effectiveness of incorporating effective classroom practices in reducing problem behaviors in special education classrooms for students with EBD.

The trial will also allow exploratory analyses of the effectiveness of the IY - ASLD programme compared with the control condition as well as the economic costs, including intervention set - up, delivery costs, participant health and social care service use, and parental health - related quality of life.

More funding is needed for large - scale effectiveness trials that examine ways of disseminating evidence - based interventions in real - world settings and for large - scale trials that compare the efficacy of different evidence - based programs for different populations.

There have been two studies, summarized below, that compared the effectiveness of two components of the Enhancing Adoptive Parenting intervention.

Objective: We examined predictors of engagement and completion in a randomized trial comparing the effectiveness of two interventions for preventing child maltreatment and promoting positive parenting.

This study will recruit participants form the main cohort study, which aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a Family Enhancement Scheme for a group of low - income families by comparing the health outcomes of the intervention and control groups.9 The intervention group has been enrolled in the Family Enhancement Scheme since 2012 and has agreed to take part in a 15 - year project.

In this randomized trial, we compared the effectiveness of a parenting intervention to a cellular phone enhanced parenting intervention for preventing child maltreatment and promoting positive parenting.

Future research should further investigate the relative efficacy and cost - effectiveness of SD interventions compared to therapist - led interventions.

This review sets out to consider the effectiveness of parent training programmes (when compared to other interventions), the safety of such programmes, and to identify the content and attributes underpinning such programmes.

At follow - up, the original improvement in the intervention group was found to have persisted, with no loss of treatment effectiveness (effect size compared to pre-treatment score 0.91 standard deviations, compared to post treatment score − 0.06 SD).

Recently, investigations exploring other outcomes have found that, compared to traditional individual - based treatments, participation in BCT results in significantly (a) higher reductions in partner violence, (b) greater improvements in psychosocial functioning of children who live with parents who receive the intervention, and (c) better cost - benefit and cost - effectiveness.

Our objective was to identify economic evaluations, i.e. studies comparing the effectiveness and costs of two or more health - focused interventions, to promote mental health and well - being and / or prevent the onset of mental health problems.