Cortez has worked on both professional development projects as well as
intervention research studies.
Not exact matches
To figure out how best to handle life's shoulda - coulda - wouldas, the
research team asked
study volunteers to try one of three
interventions.
Academic
studies have found that a significant proportion of hedge fund
interventions involve large increases in leverage and large decreases in investment, particularly in
research and development.
Intervention The
research team asked an external group offering Christian intercessory prayer to add the
study's participants to their usual prayer lists.
A recent
research study conducted by the Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg in Gothenburg, Sweden, in collaboration with DuPont Nutrition & Health (DuPont), yielded breakthrough results demonstrating that probiotic
intervention can alter and modify intestinal microbiota in patients with colon cancer.
Current
research includes: co-leading organisational case
studies in Birthplace in England, a national
study of birth outcomes in home, midwife led, and obstetric led units; investigating the relationship between measures of safety climate and health care quality in A and E and intrapartum care; and conducting nested process evaluations of two trials of obesity in pregnancy behavioural
interventions.
Infant Mental Health Mentor —
Research / Faculty (Level IV) You will provide a research response to a Qualitative Question: You are encouraged to rely on your extensive research and teaching experience in the infant - family field related to the study of pregnancy, infancy, early childhood and early parenthood; attachment security and relationship needs; risk and resiliency in the early years; caregiving practices; early assessment and intervention strategies, and the mental health needs of infants and toddlers, to nam
Research / Faculty (Level IV) You will provide a
research response to a Qualitative Question: You are encouraged to rely on your extensive research and teaching experience in the infant - family field related to the study of pregnancy, infancy, early childhood and early parenthood; attachment security and relationship needs; risk and resiliency in the early years; caregiving practices; early assessment and intervention strategies, and the mental health needs of infants and toddlers, to nam
research response to a Qualitative Question: You are encouraged to rely on your extensive
research and teaching experience in the infant - family field related to the study of pregnancy, infancy, early childhood and early parenthood; attachment security and relationship needs; risk and resiliency in the early years; caregiving practices; early assessment and intervention strategies, and the mental health needs of infants and toddlers, to nam
research and teaching experience in the infant - family field related to the
study of pregnancy, infancy, early childhood and early parenthood; attachment security and relationship needs; risk and resiliency in the early years; caregiving practices; early assessment and
intervention strategies, and the mental health needs of infants and toddlers, to name a few.
Recent
research studies indicate that behavioral
interventions not only change behavior they change how the brain looks and works.
You will provide a
research response to a Qualitative Question: You are encouraged to rely on your extensive
research and teaching experience in the infant - family field related to the
study of pregnancy, infancy, early childhood and early parenthood; attachment security and relationship needs; risk and resiliency in the early years; caregiving practices; early assessment and
intervention strategies, and the mental health needs of infants and toddlers, to name a few.
Most sleep training
research studies whether an
intervention is effective at shutting down the baby so parents get more sleep.
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
Six implementation
research studies were conducted in Malawi, Nigeria and Zimbabwe that examined
interventions to improve retention - in - care of mothers living with HIV.
Third, efforts to augment existing home visitation services with mental health
interventions aimed at preventing and treating maternal depression should be further tested with rigorous
research studies and scaled up as appropriate.
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).
Together, these
studies point to the importance of formative
research about local gender norms and power structures to inform
interventions.
Cross-over
studies are not an appropriate
research design for this type of
intervention and were not included.
Finally, given that fatherhood is an emerging field of
research, more prospective
studies need to be conducted on the quality of fathering experiences, the types of effective
interventions for fathers, and the different needs of fathers across cultures.
Research studies have shown that the type of support provided by a doula can result in many emotional and physical benefits for the laboring mother and new baby, including fewer medical
interventions and improved mother - infant bonding.
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.
Semi - annual journal featuring
research, theory, case
studies, clinical
intervention data.
Some items in the Index relate to rigour common to all
research studies, addressing issues such as clarity of key terms, definitions of the «
intervention» (i.e. place of birth), integrity of data, appropriateness of sample size and selection, transparency of methods and comparability of cohorts.
We also compared the Index to the Cochrane tool for assessing Risk of Bias in Non-randomized
Studies of
Interventions (ROBINS - I)[38], which is widely used to assess
research quality in systematic reviews [59].
The
study, funded by the Economic and Social
Research Council (ESRC), supports other findings that
interventions aimed at improving individuals» wellbeing and quality of life can be far more effective if they are carried out among groups of people in ways that generate a strong sense of group identity.
The team carried out a wide range of
research including surveys and field - based
intervention studies investigating the impact of social identity on various outcomes, including performance, stress, health and wellbeing.
A new Norwegian diet
intervention study (FATFUNC), performed by researchers at the KG Jebsen center for diabetes
research at the University of Bergen, raises questions regarding the validity of a diet hypothesis that has dominated for more than half a century: that dietary fat and particularly saturated fat is unhealthy for most people.
Finding out whether that's true will take longer - term
studies, says Linmarie Sikich, director of the Adolescent and School - age Psychiatric
Intervention Research Program at the University of North Carolina.
With this in mind, a
research team including academics and practitioners inside and outside of government examined existing
studies to evaluate the relative cost effectiveness of nudges and other policy
interventions.
Lauren Theilen, M.D. one of the primary researchers of the
study and the presenter of the
research at the upcoming SMFM annual meeting, explained, «Importantly, we are unable to say whether the hypertensive disease of pregnancy plays a causal role here, but we feel that further
study is warranted to determine whether
interventions such as early screening for chronic disease may improve long - term health outcomes among these women.»
«So there has been a lot of interest in the diabetes
research community: If you can target those antigen - presenting B - cells, that could be potentially a very effective disease
intervention,» says JAX Professor David Serreze, Ph.D., lead author of a highlighted
study published in the Journal of Immunology.
Steverink won a grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Health
Research and Development to develop and implement successful aging
interventions as a follow - up to the longitudinal aging
study she contributed to as a Ph.D. student.
A
study by investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) published this week in PLOS ONE identifies four factors that may account for sex differences in statin therapy among patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), pointing to
interventions and additional
research that will be needed to help overcome this sex disparity and reduce cardiovascular risk for women.
Dr. Iwona Rudkowska, a
research scientist at the Endocrinology and Nephrology Department, at the CHU de Québec Research Center and assistant professor at Laval University, says «additional well - designed intervention studies are needed to ascertain the effects of increased dairy consumption on metabolic health in healthy and in metabolically deteriorated populations
research scientist at the Endocrinology and Nephrology Department, at the CHU de Québec
Research Center and assistant professor at Laval University, says «additional well - designed intervention studies are needed to ascertain the effects of increased dairy consumption on metabolic health in healthy and in metabolically deteriorated populations
Research Center and assistant professor at Laval University, says «additional well - designed
intervention studies are needed to ascertain the effects of increased dairy consumption on metabolic health in healthy and in metabolically deteriorated populations.»
«This
study has important ramifications for health care reform and how practitioners approach adherence assessment and
intervention in routine care,» says Kevin Hommel, PhD, director of the Center for Health Technology
Research at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the
study's lead author.
But Robert Heinssen, who is chief of the Adult Treatment and Preventive
Intervention Research Branch at the NIMH and who led the
study, claims that prodromal symptoms, when considered in the context of a full medical history, can produce a much more accurate prediction.
The
study is also the largest
research project in Finland that focuses on early detection,
intervention and prevention of mental health problems in families with children.
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.
Their
research should serve as a baseline for future
studies of U.S. businesses engaged in direct - to - consumer advertising of purported stem cell
interventions.
«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
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
Research Program at Yale Cancer Center, associate professor of Epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, and principal investigator on both
studies.
The attendees developed a list of top
research priorities and a
research agenda for exercise in solid organ transplant, which includes the need to conduct large multicenter
intervention studies, standardize measures of physical function in clinical trials, examine the benefits of novel types of exercise, and assess the effects of exercise on measures such as immunity, infection, and cognition.
The
study, published in The BMJ, is the largest
research project in the world looking at lifestyle
interventions in pregnancy, involving more than 50 researchers from 41 institutions.
Dr. Michael Motes, senior
research scientist at the Center for BrainHealth and one of the lead authors of the
study, said, «Finding a nonpharmacological
intervention that can help the aging brain to perform like a younger brain is a welcome finding that potentially advances understanding of ways to enhance brain health and longevity.
Dr Kathryn Adcock, Head of Neurosciences and Mental Health at the Medical
Research Council, said, «Although this is quite a small
study and therefore can't provide a definitive answer, the work shows very promising indications of the benefits of early
intervention.»
As noted in the
study by Crimmins and lead author Morgan E. Levine, assistant professor at the Yale Center for
Research on Aging: «A deceleration of the human aging process, whether accomplished through environment or biomedical
intervention, would push the timing of aging - related disease and disability incidence closer to the end of life.»
Prior
research that
studied the effect of free behavioral counseling offered by phone has shown improvement in smoking cessation rates when combined with pharmaceutical
interventions.
«Our findings demonstrate that people naturally assign different weights to the pluses and minuses of
interventions to improve cardiovascular health,» said Erica Spatz, M.D., M.H.S., the
study lead author and an assistant professor of cardiovascular medicine in the Center for Outcomes
Research and Evaluation at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, CT. «I believe we need to tap into this framework when we are talking with patients about options to manage their blood pressure.
This
study confirms the results of previous
research by demonstrating that female players are influenced by stereotype threat as early as their teen years, pointing to the importance of early
intervention.
The researchers from the University's Department of Social Policy and
Intervention, and the Swedish Institute for Social
Research, Stockholm,
studied the test scores measuring cognitive ability of children aged between 10 and 13, and found they had a strong effect on a child's subsequent educational performance.
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.
«Although we do not know the reasons for the racial and ethnic differences we saw, one explanation could be that the black and Hispanic patients had surgery when they are much heavier and sicker than the non-Hispanic white patients,» said
study lead author, Karen J. Coleman, PhD, of the Kaiser Permanente Department of
Research & Evaluation in Pasadena, Calif. «Our
study highlights that surgery may be an important
intervention tool for people earlier in their weight gain trajectory.
The
research team evaluated the men at the start of the
study, two months after the program and three months after the program and found significant differences between the men who had the
intervention and those who did not.