Sentences with phrase «less effective interventions»

Third, it may be possible to eliminate components associated with less effective interventions, thereby minimizing the burden on practitioners and families.

Technically, the lines should not be connected, since they represent the gains following distinct actions of different central banks, but connecting the points shows the trend toward less and less effective interventions.

Not exact matches

They work with corporations to increase the availability of animal product alternatives and have developed a «restaurant report card» to score the top 100 chain restaurants according to their plant - based options.22 In general, we think that corporate outreach is a relatively effective animal advocacy intervention, though we are less certain of the effects of promoting plant - based options in restaurants than we are of the effects of working with corporations to implement welfare reforms.

Breastfeeding interventions provided by nurses working alone were generally less effective than the other types of interventions.

The fairly shambolic nature of the response from the west, and the international community as a whole (and the fact that though shamefully belated it managed to avert the imminent catastrophe in Benghazi) shows that we have learnt little or nothing from Bosnia, Kossovo, Kurdistan, where intervention helped, still less from the many other areas where nothing effective was done, and we essentially abandoned people to their fate.

Its highest priority recommendation is giving every child the best start in life, as later «interventions» are proven to be less effective.

To support the development of young students — particularly in low - income schools, which are at risk for having less effective teachers and less engaged students — researchers are looking to classroom interventions focused on social - emotional learning.

Although a greater number of subjects in the high dose group had less depressive symptoms, the researchers believe attending twice weekly classes (plus home practice) may constitute a less burdensome but still effective way to gain the mood benefits from the intervention.

She added: «By showing sound economic reasons for increasing the use of preventative measures, such as tooth brushing and fluoride varnishing, I hope that they can now compete for resource against other less cost - effective interventions.»

Dr. Hamdy said the study proves that intensive lifestyle intervention is at least as effective as some common bariatric surgeries in helping people lose weight and deal with their diabetes issues, with less cost and fewer short and long - term side effects.

In the case of infectious diseases, we may be able to identify those at increased risk of contracting or transmitting infection, or those more or less likely to respond to interventions, before we have safe and effective interventions to offer, or before policy can be modified.

The early intervention strategy is most frequently used for drug testing in AD because drug candidates assayed in AD transgenic mice at the stage when pathology is already present are generally less effective [27 — 30].

Community is more effective than any medication, even though many still use less than optimal and outdated nutritional advice and lifestyle interventions.

If he had, he'd perhaps be less inclined to throw taxpayers» money at an intervention which is less effective than cheaper, less disruptive ones.

But we have also found that without an understanding of how struggling students learn, the interventions we design are less than likely to be effective.

But evaluation found it was «no more or less effective» than interventions already in place such as one - to - one help.

Interventions for struggling readers are much less effective after third grade, so it's crucial to help students at the time when it can make the most impact.

Intervention groups of more than ten tend to be less effective, as are systems where students choose their sessions - these should be informed by teachers based on assessment data and / or mastery criteria judgements.

The historical non-availability (or relative scarcity) of scanning facilities at the weekend has certainly contributed to claims where patients have been either discharged altogether or admitted but where MRI has been delayed until the Monday morning, resulting in delayed diagnosis and less effective surgical intervention.

Fortunately, early detection and intervention can make treatment both less expensive and more effective.

Because evidence supporting depression treatments is less established for adolescents than for adults, it is noteworthy that similarly designed quality improvement interventions are effective in youth, adults, and elderly persons.52, 63

The care co-ordination aspect of the intervention was based on current National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance.17 18 BA is a simple psychological treatment for depression that aims to re-engage patients with positively reinforcing experiences and reduce avoidance behaviours.19 It is no less clinically effective but more cost effective than cognitive behavioural therapy in treating depression in adults.20

The earlier an intervention in children's lives, the less it cost and the more likely it was to be effective.

The costs to society of childhood behaviour problems (the most common form of mental illness in children) is high.8 It has been proposed that there is an urgent priority to shift from reactive intervention to prevention, since the later the intervention, the costlier and less effective it is.9

Group parenting programmes have been shown to have a positive impact on the mental health of children and parents in the short term.9 — 12 Positive results have been obtained from randomised controlled trials and other studies with parents of children with clinically defined behaviour disorders, 9,13,14 children at high risk of behaviour problems, 9,15 and to a lesser extent with normal populations.16, 17 They have also been obtained in trials of interventions for parents and children of different ages.18, 19 The number of trials carried out in the UK is small.13, 15,20,21 A recent systematic review concluded that these programmes are effective in the long term, 12 but most of the trials on which this review was based used a waiting list control design, and as a result outcome data are not reported on the control groups beyond 6 months.

We predicted that the intervention would be less effective in reducing child maltreatment in the presence of domestic violence.

As a result interventions were less effective (Cunningham & Leschied, 1995).

One of the conclusions of this series of meta - analyses, also illustrated in the title of the paper «Less is more,» was that interventions with a modest number of intervention sessions (up to 16) appeared to be more effective than interventions with larger numbers of sessions, and this was true for clinical as well as for non-clinical groups.6 This diverges from Egeland's conclusion that more comprehensive, long - term interventions are necessary for high - risk families.

It was hypothesised that media - based treatments would be less effective than conventional psychological treatments and that efficacy would improve with increasing amounts of therapist intervention.

The most effective interventions are based in play, an approach that seems less sophisticated than purportedly deep and transformative adult - centered talk therapies.

The kinds of interventions that are most effective with children are based in play, and maybe that seems somehow less than professional, not so sophisticated, a little embarrassing.

Art therapy can be an effective intervention for clients from preschool through adults, especially because it can be less of a defensive environment.

Our findings suggest that at least in The Netherlands, the Incredible Years parenting intervention is not less or more effective for families with lower educational or ethnic minority backgrounds, or for children with ADHD symptoms.

Relative to the comparison groups, these children had fewer episodes of running away, less criminal behaviour, fewer sexual partners, and fewer behavioural problems related to drugs and alcohol.40 However, not all studies have found such interventions to be effective, 40 indicating that interventions need to be evidence based and carefully formulated.

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