Sentences with phrase «intervention studies evaluate»

However, the problem with this literature is that most behavior management intervention studies evaluate the impact on short - term behavior outcomes, not academic and educational outcomes.

Workpackage 2 covered reviews of intervention studies evaluating the effectiveness of programmes to support parenting and parent — child relationships.

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The study evaluated 344 patients and was randomized, with 321 receiving a study intervention; 163, angiotensin II; and 158, a placebo.

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has evaluated the scientific grounding of the health claim, which is backed by six human intervention studies that prove that consumption of a minimum of 12g of Orafti inulin a day improved stool frequency and promoted digestive health.

The present review evaluates the evidence for such a complex system by investigating studies in which interventions such as elevated temperature, altered oxygen content of the air, reduced fuel availability and misinformation about distance covered have resulted in alterations to the pacing strategy.

She was formerly a professor of family and human development at Arizona State University, where she developed and evaluated social - emotional learning curricula for early childhood classrooms and instructed courses in early intervention, child development, and gender studies.

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.

Previous attempts to evaluate the Baby Friendly Initiative within an observational study design have often been limited by small sample size or reliance upon ecological measures of confounding factors.16, 17 The advantage of the Millennium Cohort Study is the availability of individual - level social and demographic information, as well as the circumstances of pregnancy and delivery, allowing adjustment for factors that in other studies may be associated with both policy intervention and infant feeding practices, via area or individual population differestudy design have often been limited by small sample size or reliance upon ecological measures of confounding factors.16, 17 The advantage of the Millennium Cohort Study is the availability of individual - level social and demographic information, as well as the circumstances of pregnancy and delivery, allowing adjustment for factors that in other studies may be associated with both policy intervention and infant feeding practices, via area or individual population differeStudy is the availability of individual - level social and demographic information, as well as the circumstances of pregnancy and delivery, allowing adjustment for factors that in other studies may be associated with both policy intervention and infant feeding practices, via area or individual population differences.

Our study illustrates that a randomized intervention trial with good socioeconomic information can help assess interventions designed to improve population health not only by examining the intervention effects on primary outcomes but also by evaluating the intervention's impact on socioeconomic inequalities.

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.

Summary: This study, published in Public Health Nutrition in April 2010, evaluated an educational intervention aimed at improving complementary feeding...

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.

In collaboration with Elsie M. Taveras, MD, MPH, Chief, Division of General Academic Pediatrics at Mass General Hospital for Children and her First 1,000 Days Study, TFP's contribution is aimed at developing and evaluating focused interventions for fathers and families to decrease obesity in children.

To be included in this critical review, studies had to be U.S. - based randomized trials evaluating a breastfeeding promotion intervention, reporting breastfeeding outcome data, enrolling primarily minority participants, and conducting analyses by intention to treat.

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.

We identified 3 publications evaluating the impact of a group prenatal counseling format on breastfeeding outcomes, with each study assessing a different intervention (Table 1).

However, the 2 studies evaluating LC interventions yielded different results.

One study evaluated a multi-faceted intervention, of which breastfeeding support delivered directly to women was one component (Kools 2005).

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.

In a study released recently in the journal Developmental Review, Earnshaw, Assistant Professor Tia Barnes and their colleagues found that although there has been an increase in stigma - based bullying interventions, there are some issues with how these interventions are being implemented and evaluated.

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.

To evaluate the intervention's success, the authors of the present study interviewed 222 participating households.

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.

The researchers performed a follow - up study of 168 patients from a previous randomized trial evaluating a «practical intervention» to help smokers quit before surgery.

As a scientific standard, future studies evaluating possible population - level health effects of this intervention (which, to be clear, was not the purpose of the study by Kypri et al) should assess outcomes at the population level, ideally using instruments external to the study.

Even fewer interventions are tailored for racial and ethnic minorities, and not one intervention has been evaluated with sexual - and gender - minority people,» said Robert Coulter, M.P.H., a doctoral candidate in Pitt Public Health's Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences and lead author of both studies.

In a review of existing literature, Marteau did find descriptions of nudging being used to improve health behaviors — one study reports a 70 % increase in the amount of fruit bought by school children at lunchtime after fruit was placed by the cash register — but these interventions have not been evaluated on a large scale or assessed for cost - effectiveness.

«This study provides a foundation for future studies to evaluate the value of psycho - social interventions, such as cognitive therapies, to lessen the effect of major life events, as well as the use of estrogen therapy during perimenopausal and menopausal stressful times.»

The authors concluded that future studies should evaluate targeted interventions to improve patient safety in areas associated with catastrophic malpractice payouts, including efforts to improve diagnostic accuracy.

The CFI proprietary epidemiology study is aimed to evaluate the presentation and trajectory of CFS and identify effective interventions.

Our group focuses on developing pharmaceutical and immunological strategies to reduce HIV - 1 persistence, and on evaluating such interventions in clinical studies.

The study will compare two interventions to evaluate their effect on opioid dosage, physical functioning and pain - related outcomes.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

For each topic, WWC researchers summarize and evaluate the rigor of published studies of products and interventions.

And then in our second study, which is our Wellbeing Teaching and Learning Study, what we wanted to do here is to actually evaluate the benefits of interventions that would reduce stress and actually improve the emotion regulation and wellbeing in teacstudy, which is our Wellbeing Teaching and Learning Study, what we wanted to do here is to actually evaluate the benefits of interventions that would reduce stress and actually improve the emotion regulation and wellbeing in teacStudy, what we wanted to do here is to actually evaluate the benefits of interventions that would reduce stress and actually improve the emotion regulation and wellbeing in teachers.

This study evaluates a new two - year intervention focused on student writing called Drive to Write.

Beginning with the leadership of Russ Whitehurst at the Institute of Education Sciences, IES has begun shifting its grants and contracts away from correlational studies like Coleman's and toward those that evaluate interventions with random - assignment and other quasi-experimental designs.

This study evaluated the effectiveness of a low - cost and large - scale summer reading intervention that provided comprehension lessons at the end of the school year and stimulated home - based summer reading routines with narrative and informational books.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of an instructional intervention in academic science among 5th grade English language learners (ELLs) after one year of placement in comparison to the typical science instruction in the district where the larger research project is being implemented.

This EEF trial of the Lesson Study programme set out to robustly evaluate this intervention and is one of the largest randomised trials to date focusing on the effectiveness of this form of teacher development.

New standards have been added for testing theory, describing interventions, measuring the quality of implementation, documenting adaptations in the field, reporting study results, and evaluating outcomes of scale - up efforts.

She has also developed and evaluated interventions for preventing adolescent alcohol use and her general school - based health promotion approach constituted the frame - work for the national Child and Adolescent Trial for Cardiovascular Health (CATCH) funded by NHLBI in 1986, the largest school - based intervention study to reduce cardiovascular risk through diet, activity and tobacco prevention.

In the second study, I evaluate the effects of a social - psychological intervention on increasing freshmen students» sense of social belonging at two large public universities in Indiana.

Her research interests emphasize applied educational measurement by designing and managing research studies to evaluate the effectiveness of multi-site intervention programs over time; investigating how school, teacher, and student factors affect student achievement; and developing, validating, and evaluating assessment systems.

We summarized the findings and evaluated the studies against ESSA's criteria for «evidence - based» interventions, which define different tiers of evidence based on research methodology.

Dr. Heppen has strong methodological expertise in designing, conducting, and evaluating the rigor of research studies of education interventions.

The authors evaluated the studies against the criteria set forth in ESSA for determining which interventions may be considered «evidence - based» and found that there is sufficient evidence to support the broad use of community schools as an «evidence - based» reform strategy.

Each review evaluated published and unpublished studies in which children or adolescents receiving a SEL intervention were compared to a control group and there was at least one quantitative outcome assessing pupils» adjustment.

• Assist the lead teacher with curriculum development and lesson planning • Ensure that the lesson plans are purposeful and age appropriate • Work with the lead teacher to plan and implement study programs aimed at meeting the individual needs of the students • Encourage student enthusiasm for learning processes by working with each student on an individual basis • Observe students» behavior and progress on a regular basis • Work with the lead teacher to recognize and address learning problems • Assist the lead teacher in developing reasonable classroom rules in accordance to the school guidelines • Evaluate students periodically to determine progress and need for intervention • Handle student record management tasks • Assist lead teachers in make needed adjustments to the instructional program • Prepare bulletin board displays in accordance to the lead teachers» instructions • Tutor students in groups and individually in order to enforce concepts taught in class • Assist students with assignments or in understanding difficult concepts • Supervise students during instruction and in the absence of the lead teacher • Organize and supervise games during activity time • Assist students during lunch time and with their toileting needs • Handle instruction resource research activities and hand out materials to students • Take and record class attendance • Assist students in embarking and disembarking from the school bus • Operate and maintain audio - visual equipment from special class projects

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