«The high burden of early complications in youth with diabetes requires additional research to clarify the underlying causes and to
identify effective intervention strategies,» said Dr. Dana Dabelea, lead author and co-chair of the national SEARCH Study and professor of epidemiology at the Colorado School of Public Health at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
Not exact matches
To
identify effective multi-stakeholder
strategies and policy
interventions for FLW reduction
While the authors argue that legislative and contextual
interventions can be
effective prevention
strategies, they also recognize that there is an unmet need for behavioral change programs designed to pinpoint the most at - risk groups,
identify their risk and protective factors, and then design
effective interventions tailored to their specific needs.
This
strategy is expected to improve early diagnoses and
intervention, predict the course of a disease,
identify new drug targets and select the most
effective therapies for individual patients.
This compelling knowledge base underscores three significant, unmet needs: (1) valid and reliable biological and bio-behavioral measures (or «biomarkers») of «toxic stress» to
identify children who are at higher risk of chronic disease in adulthood; (2) more
effective intervention strategies to prevent, reduce, or mitigate the long - term health consequences of significant adversity in early childhood; and (3) biomarkers that are sensitive to change and can thus be used to assess the short - term and medium - term effects of
intervention strategies whose ultimate impacts on physical and mental health may not be apparent until decades later.
Specific
strategies for targeted purposes, such as
effective early
intervention programs designed to
identify at - risk students;
• Launch a high - performing data team; • Apply a four - step collaborative process for data inquiry; • Drill down into state and local data, including student work; •
Identify student learning problems and goals; • Address the underlying causes of student learning problems in order to plan
effective intervention strategies.
Process evaluation
identifies the more
effective intervention strategies and documents the challenges to be overcome for full implementation.
Implementation of such a
strategy, however, rests not just on having an
effective, palatable, and affordable
intervention ready to be deployed (a major feat all in itself), but also on having a reliable and valid means of
identifying children truly in need of such
interventions.
She leads several
intervention studies on these and related topics, including federally funded research programs that are
identifying effective methods to decrease disruptive behaviors across home and school and uncovering important
strategies to support families and teachers in early childhood
interventions.
Understanding the processes that protect adolescents from maladaptive development and
identifying these factors might be useful for developing more
effective intervention strategies for peer - victimized children.