Sentences with phrase «intervention treatment study»

Not exact matches

Living Goods told us at that time that the results from the RCT were not going to be reliable due to spillover of the intervention into control locations and incorrect matching of the treatment area and the treatment survey area — issues that reduce the statistical power of the study.1

• Almost exactly the same treatment / quit ratio was found in a Hong Kong study, with — again — almost double the quit rate in the intervention group.

Studies reported by The American Pregnancy Association suggest that the most effective fertility treatments involve a combination of acupuncture, herbal medicine, and traditional medical interventions.

Studies were excluded where the intervention (a) was aimed at prevention rather than treatment; (b) was aimed specifically at children, the whole family as a unit or at teachers; or (c) was non-structured, such as an informal support group or unstructured home visits.

In future updates, we will use fixed - effect meta - analysis for combining data where it is reasonable to assume that studies are estimating the same underlying treatment effect: i.e. where trials are examining the same intervention, and the trials» populations and methods are judged sufficiently similar.

24 randomised and 2 non-randomised trials of intervention packages, including mainly: building community - support or women's groups (9 studies), community mobilisation and antenatal and postnatal home visitation (7 studies), community mobilisation and home - based neonatal treatment (1 study), training traditional birth attendants who made antenatal and intrapartum home visits (2 studies), home - based neonatal care and treatment (2 studies), and education of mothers and antenatal and postnatal visitation (2 studies)

We attempted to examine this by assessing the intensity of the intervention, and we found studies with four to eight visits to be associated with a more pronounced treatment effect on exclusive breastfeeding at final study assessment.

Again, there was some evidence that the treatment effect may be partly due to bias; sensitivity analysis including only those studies assessed as being at low risk of bias for allocation concealment showed that results still favoured the intervention group although the treatment effect was less pronounced in the studies at lower risk of bias (Analysis 1.8).

Ultimately the knowledge gained from these studies should pave the way for increasingly effective interventions and treatments.»

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.

(1) In this study — the LIFEstyle study performed in the Netherlands — 290 women were assigned to a 6 - month lifestyle - intervention programme preceding 18 months of infertility treatment (intervention group) while 287 women were assigned to prompt infertility treatment over the same 24 month study period (control group).

Nine of these studies showed significant benefits of psychosocial interventions in patients being treated with methadone, including reduced drug use and increased treatment attendance.

Dr Leonardo Guasti added: «It represents an entirely new concept for the study of the adrenal gland as the ability to generate donor - specific and functional adrenal - like cells will facilitate the next generation of cell - based treatments for adrenal insufficiency, the modelling of adrenal specific diseases, and the testing of personalised interventions on cells derived from patients.»

The study involved 871 patients from 72 primary care practices in England who were randomly assigned to 1 of 4 advice strategies: usual care, daily nasal and saline irrigation supported by a demonstration video, daily steam inhalation, or combined treatment with both interventions.

While there have been advances in early detection and many studies involving the treatment of children with ASD, few efforts to date have focused on interventions for adults.

Given the current lack of treatment options, the authors of this study conclude that combined ribavirin and interferon - alpha 2b therapy should be considered as an early intervention.

Dr. Chen added that additional studies are needed to assess what personal or institutional factors may delay treatment for African American patients and to determine if any interventions can help eliminate this disparity.

For this study, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine randomly assigned 42 preadolescents (ages 7 - 12) with depression to one of two therapy conditions: FB - IPT, an intervention that included parents in the child's treatment and focused on improving family and peer relationships, or to child - centered therapy (CCT), a supportive therapy for children.

A review of studies on the treatment of chronic insomnia finds that cognitive behavioral therapy is an effective alternative to drug interventions

After initial screening, the researchers randomized the study participants into three groups: a referral group that received a list of treatment services; a brief intervention group that received a motivational consultation and referral; and a third group given a brief intervention and treatment with buprenorphine that was continued in primary care.

The study findings defy the conventional belief that the two treatment interventions offer equal survival, and show the need to revisit some standards of breast cancer practice in the modern era.

A study care manager regularly called patients in the intervention group to provide basic psycho - education; encourage healthy habits (sleep, exercise, avoid excess alcohol); assess treatment preferences for anti-anxiety medications; monitor response to treatment; and inform their primary care physicians of their care preference and progress.

Nevertheless, the results identify key factors to consider during the transition from long - term residential treatment to the community, and the findings from this study will inform future intervention development that aims to significantly improve mid-range and long - term outcomes among people with SUDs leaving residential treatment.

This study is the first phase of a larger initiative to develop and pilot test Critical Time Intervention, a transitional assistance model for individuals leaving residential substance abuse treatment.

Researchers are now studying the possible benefits of starting brain training during treatment or combining it with other interventions.

A study called Stroke Warning Information and Faster Treatment (SWIFT) compared interactive intervention with enhanced educational materials on recurrent stroke arrival times in patients with mild stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA).

«Our study suggests that the disease process and antibiotic treatment could have a far greater impact on intestinal microbial diversity than surgical intervention,» said Minna Wieck, MD, an investigator and surgical resident at CHLA and first author on the study.

While their study confirms the identity of the compound responsible for NDMA formation and encourages treatment plants to continue implementing intervention methods, their work is far from complete.

They began their study after contradictory findings surfaced in the environmental research community, causing hesitation in the adoption of NDMA intervention methods at treatment facilities.

Published by Noha Sharafeldin, M.D., M.Sc., Ph.D., instructor in UAB's Institute for Cancer Outcomes and Survivorship and Division of Hematology and Oncology, this study helps add a missing piece to a long - unsolved puzzle about post-transplant effects on recipients, specifically that vulnerable subpopulations of similar transplants can benefit from targeted interventions in the years after they receive their lifesaving treatment.

«This is the first study of its kind to show that if patients enrolled in intensive lifestyle intervention treatments aren't successful in losing weight after the first two months of treatment, they aren't likely to be successful using this approach alone long - term,» said lead author Jessica L. Unick, PhD, of the Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center, The Miriam Hospital and Brown Medical School, Providence, RI.

The traditional approach, in which researchers studied the clinical outcomes of an intervention without assessing whether the intervention altered a well - defined target, established current, well - accepted treatments such as exposure therapy and dialectical behavior therapy.

Additional limitations to the traditional approach include: costly failures to replicate positive results in larger trials; difficulty in determining the reasons for negative results; low yield in terms of identifying disease or intervention mechanisms due to an exclusive focus on symptom change and clinical endpoints; and, the expensive and very lengthy practice of first establishing multi-component psychosocial treatments followed by years of «unpacking» studies.

Known as SLIMM - T2D (Surgery or Lifestyle with Intensive Medical Management in the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes), the two - year study will examine whether patients test in the non-diabetic range one year after either the surgical or medical and weight management interventions.

In pursuit of effective treatment of CM, clinical studies, postmortem analysis and animal models have been employed to understand the pathology and identify effective interventions.

«We found compelling evidence for impact of several interventions on preventing stillbirths, especially emergency obstetric care; screening and treatment for maternal infections such as syphilis, and prevention and treatment of malaria,» said Gary Darmstadt, MD, MS, co-author and co-editor of the study and former director of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's International Center for Advancing Neonatal Health.

Furthermore, relatively few studies human studies (Table 1) have incorporated separate CER (standard treatment) or ad libitum (no intervention) control groups.

The study, compiled by San Francisco - based Virta Health, reports that the treatment could also improve other chronic metabolic diseases without medication or surgical intervention.

Some important studies include: • Beneficial effects of a high carbohydrate, high fiber diet on hyperglycemic diabetic men (1976) • Response of non-insulin-dependent diabetic patients to an intensive program of diet and exercise (1982) • Diet and exercise in the treatment of NIDDM: The need for early emphasis (1994) • Toward improved management of NIDDM: A randomized, controlled, pilot intervention using a low fat, vegetarian diet (1999) • The effects of a low - fat, plant - based dietary intervention on body weight, metabolism, and insulin sensitivity (2005) • A low - fat vegan diet improves glycemic control and cardiovascular risk factors in a randomized clinical trial in individuals with type 2 diabetes (2006) • A low - fat vegan diet and a conventional diabetes diet in the treatment of type 2 diabetes: a randomized, controlled, 74 - wk clinical trial (2009) • Vegetarian diet improves insulin resistance and oxidative stress markers more than conventional diet in subjects with Type 2 diabetes (2011) • Glycemic and cardiovascular parameters improved in type 2 diabetes with the high nutrient density (HND) diet (2012)

In fact, a 2012 study out of the Functional Medicine University found that functional medicine therapy can be an extremely effective intervention in the treatment of multiple sclerosis.

Strategies of obesity treatment are more successful when support strategies are in place for patient assistance and for ongoing encouragement.24, 25 Also, patients who eat frequent meals outside of the home were excluded from the study, as the use of this intervention would be difficult in restaurants.

If confirmed in other studies, this cost - free intervention may be a useful adjunctive treatment in overweight and obese individuals to attain an increase in energy expenditure.

Future studies will also need to test the yoga program against other types of interventions, rather than the participants» existing treatment.

If the treatment and control groups are similar at the beginning of the study, any differences between the two groups that emerge over time can be attributed to the programmatic intervention - in the case at hand, using a voucher to switch from a public to a private school.

A review of 16 empirical studies, from 1982 to 2008, found that sitting meditation, including mindfulness and Transcendental Meditation practices seems to be an effective intervention in the treatment of physiologic, psychosocial, and behavioral conditions among youths ages 6 - 18.

This design allowed the study team to determine the impact of each of the two PD interventions by comparing each treatment group's outcomes with those of the control group, and also to determine the impact of the coaching above and beyond the institute series by comparing treatment group B with treatment group A.

We interpret the findings as indicating that systematic studies are needed that (a) investigate alternative interventions with students prior to middle school and that (b) examine the efficacy of interventions that integrate practices associated with cognitive malleability (executive functioning and self - regulation) into the treatments.

Most researchers seek to study professional development as an intervention or treatment imposed on an organization.

The results of this study could yield therapy dog visits as a regular, low - risk and low - cost treatment intervention for patients in the ICU.

Further studies are warranted to determine whether antioxidant interventions to correct these are beneficial in the treatment of canine lymphoma.