Sentences with phrase «interventions they designed»

He departs from much pietistic tradition by making Creation and divine providence subservient to the evolutionary world process, rather than viewing God's activity as a sporadic set of interventions designed to inform man of some eternal truth or to keep him traveling the straight and narrow.

In a landmark experiment in 2006, Cohen and a colleague, Julio Garcia, tested a wise intervention designed to counteract this anxiety with a group of underachieving seventh - graders at a suburban middle school in New England.

When interventions designed to encourage attachment are done right, the effect on disadvantaged parents and their children can be transformative.

The Institute was one of just six winners (of a possible ten) in Phase One of the Educational Programs Challenge, for which it was awarded a $ 25,000 cash prize for its proposal to create a multi-media concussion education intervention designed to create an environment in which student - athletes are not penalized, ostracized, or criticized for honestly reporting their own concussion symptoms as well as those of teammates but are actually encouraged to do so.

• In another randomized controlled study of an intervention designed to reduce smoking in expectant fathers, addressing the mothers alone resulted in 5 % of the fathers» quitting, while addressing the father directly resulted in a 15 % quit rate (McBride et al, 2004).

Gagnier J, Morgenstern H, Chess L. Interventions Designed to Prevent Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries in Adolescents and Adults.

Parenting programmes are defined broadly as «any formal interventions designed to support the parent / child relationship», and this includes practitioner training as well as programmes which train parents directly.

You will find that most common complications of labor today are caused by the interventions designed to prevent other complications.

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.

The randomized intervention design is one of strengths in our study, providing less biased estimates of impact of the intervention on socioeconomic inequalities.

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.

Trials are needed that examine interventions designed specifically for women with multiples and delivered by people with training about how to overcome the particular challenges of breastfeeding more than one infant.

Since 1985, the United States Agency for International Development's (USAID) Child Survival and Health Grants Program (CSHGP) has supported nongovernmental organizations» (NGO) efforts to reduce maternal and child morbidity and mortality through interventions designed to address health issues, including EBF.

We included education or support for using any intervention designed to increase breastfeeding or breast milk feeding.

There is a need for well - designed, adequately powered studies of interventions designed for women with twins or higher order multiples to find out what types of education and support are effective in helping these mothers to breastfeed their babies.

Some additional questions emerge about the use of theory to guide intervention design.

Name (at least) 3 specific play therapy interventions designed for «children / youth of fury» and «fawns in gorilla suits.»

Equally important is the need to change attitudes to birth so that women are encouraged to play a more active part in the birth of their babies instead of being subjected to clinical interventions designed to mitigate the adverse effects of labouring in a starkly unnatural environment.

HMRC says it also undertakes other interventions designed to identify employers who may be underpaying.

The Liberal Democrats today called on the government to scrap the Trident nuclear missile system, in the latest intervention designed to head - off growing dissent from the party's disgruntled left - wingers.

The interventions they designed included getting solicitors to prompt people to remember good causes when writing a will.

The objective of this guide is to increase the number of CACs delivering evidence - based intervention designed to meet the specific needs of physical abuse victims.

Science can help measure the scope, scale and impact of illegal wildlife trade, map illicit networks and assess the effect of social marketing and other interventions designed to reduce demand.

This supports policy and educational interventions designed to decrease the use of e-cigarettes among nonsmokers.»

The authors wrote, «It is critical to understand how people react to evidence of bias in order to implement successful interventions designed to decrease it, particularly given mounting evidence that non-stigmatized group members (i.e., White men) may respond differently than other individuals.»

It might also lead to the development of effective interventions designed to boost memory for important information.

With a randomized field experiment of 587 first - graders, we tested an educational intervention designed to promote interactions between children and parents relating to math.

The findings suggest that interventions designed to target deficits in cognitive - affective responding may be effective for prevention and intervention programs for depression following natural disasters.

Interventions designed to reduce alcohol use among fraternity members are no more effective than no intervention at all, according to an analysis of 25 years of research involving over 6,000 university students published by the American Psychological Association.

Some interventions designed to help people start and continue exercising may focus on the execution habit, or an exact routine to follow at the gym, said Alison Phillips, an assistant professor of psychology at Iowa State.

«High maintenance» is one of four temperaments identified in INSIGHTS into Children's Temperament, an intervention designed by McClowry to help teachers and parents match environmental demands to a child's nature.

This study examined the impact of an intervention designed to reduce the amount of time workers spend sitting.

According to Malo, «public health interventions designed to increase HPV vaccine recommendation for males should focus on increasing recommendations by family practitioners and also identifying and supporting innovators and early adopters who may help diffuse HPV vaccination guidelines and encourage later adopters to support the recommendations.»

The authors also found that women undergoing terminations of pregnancy welcomed the opportunity to disclose their experiences of intimate partner violence and to be offered help, suggesting that termination services may represent an appropriate setting in which to test interventions designed to reduce intimate partner violence.

The role that evaluation possibilities play in intervention design should be brought to the fore in debates over health care improvement.

Interventions designed to facilitate their mathematical learning during ages 3 to 5 years have a strong positive effect on these children's lives for many years thereafter.

What makes this study unique is that it's the first to incorporate a «train for transfer» approach — essentially a training intervention designed to have participants practice performing real - world prospective memory tasks in simulated everyday settings and assess whether the cognitive gains transfer to successful performance at home.

Implemented in eight provider - led sessions, FOCUS is a strength - based preventive intervention designed to bridge gaps in the continuum of behavioral health care for military families and has been implemented with over 600,000 individuals in the US.

John DeLuca, PhD, VP of Research & Training chairs Workshop 6: Cognitive Rehabilitation in MS. Dr. DeLuca discusses assessment of cognitive problems and introduces common evidence - based techniques for improving cognitive functioning in persons with MS. Nancy Chiaravalloti, PhD, director of Neuropsychology & Neuroscience Research, presents two recent double - blind, placebo - controlled, randomized control trials of behavioral interventions designed to specifically improve learning and memory in persons with MS. Yael Goverover, PhD, OT, focuses on techniques to improve learning and memory, with a specific emphasis on improving everyday functional activity.

As an example of the NIMH approach to intervention development research, the Recovery After an Initial Schizophrenia Episode (RAISE) initiative utilized coordinated specialty care (CSC), a team - based intervention designed to improve outcomes for individuals experiencing first episode psychosis.

Three interventions designed for follow up of patients who are identified with suicide risk in hospital emergency departments save lives and are cost effective relative to usual care.

This prestigious grant recognizes leading clinician - scientists dedicated to investigating interventions designed to improve cognitive functioning and everyday life in individuals with MS.. This five - year grant for $ 404,698 will provide enhanced and continued support for Kessler Foundations» current postdoctoral Fellowship training program.

Thus, interventions designed to prevent the accumulation of VF are likely to represent an effective mean to improve carbohydrate metabolism in aging.

March 25, 2015 New analysis finds successes, gaps in community - based diabetes prevention programs Lifestyle interventions designed to reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes can work well in group - based, community settings, conclude authors from the University of Chicago Medicine in a new report issued by the New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth) on March 25, 2015.

Pathogens are constantly evolving to evade the human immune system and the public health interventions designed to combat them.

CBT is a psychologist - led intervention designed to help patients identify, and ultimately change, harmful ways of thinking and behaving, the researchers said.

In several clinical trials of interventions designed to lower plasma cholesterol, reductions in coronary heart disease mortality have been offset by an unexplained rise in suicides and other violent deaths

In fact, Morgan, Palinkas, Barrett - Connor, and Winged (1993) articulate this with, «In several clinical trials of interventions designed to lower plasma cholesterol, reductions in coronary heart disease mortality have been offset by an unexplained rise in suicides and other violent deaths» (p. 75).

PREMIER — a trial of lifestyle interventions for blood pressure control: intervention design and rationale.

He is devoting his professional attention to being a «Health Futurist» and delivers lifestyle programs and wellness interventions designed to enable individuals and communities attain healthier futures.