Sentences with phrase «only small interventions»

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Most people that choose to birth at home have only chosen after extensive research and feel that the small risk of a serious complication is preferable to the high rate of intervention in a hospital setting (including the 33 % national caesarean section rate.)

Most people that choose to birth at home have only chosen after extensive research and feel that the small risk of a serious complication is preferable to the high rate of interventions in a hospital setting (including the 33 % national caesarean section rate.)

«Previous studies suggest that reducing heart fat is feasible through weight loss or weight management, but these studies only looked at small numbers of people and there have been no clinical trials linking cardiovascular outcomes with heart fat changes due to weight management interventions.

Although current mitral valve interventions delivered via a small incision through the skin could be a viable alternative treatment, this strategy benefits only a highly selective group of patients who have mitral valve leaflets (which are flaps that seal the valve) of a particular shape.

Only a small number of these interventions — Calorie Restriction, Methionine Restriction, Growth Hormone Knockout, IGF - 1 and Insulin Signalling Manipulation — have actually been shown to extend maximum lifespan in normal, healthy mice.

I immediately realized that if the care of the infants in the NICU included only a small fraction of these nutrition principles, the infants would heal sooner and more fully while requiring less medical intervention.

A variety of groups will be upset over the plan to impose «rigorous interventions to turn schools around» only on a small number of really low - performing schools and let merely - mediocre schools avoid the turnaround lash.

While there has been a gradual increase in the number of school - based health clinics, which provide preventive and remedial care and even crisis interventions, clinics serve only a small minority of students, and few states and districts have policies in place to help them scale up and become sustainable.

It is harder to do that when there are only a small number of approaches and interventions with some evidence of promise, none of which have been trialled in the UK.

Specifically, they were able to more easily identify and target the small group of students (only about 3 to 5 percent of a school's population) who needed intensive intervention.

It is only now that many hundreds of lives have been lost in the Mediterranean Sea as people flee the chaos unleashed in the region in no small part by such incautious intervention, that Miliband wants to make it an election issue.

The paper identifies some small studies of new drugs, but typically these lacked adequate data for analysis; moreover, only 8 of 123 studies were rated as low risk of bias, and the mix of psychosocial interventions added to uncertainties of effectiveness.

In Denver, low - resource families who received home visiting showed modest benefits in children's language and cognitive development.102 In Elmira, only the intervention children whose mothers smoked cigarettes before the experiment experienced cognitive benefits.103 In Memphis, children of mothers with low psychological resources104 in the intervention group had higher grades and achievement test scores at age nine than their counterparts in the control group.105 Early Head Start also identified small, positive effects on children's cognitive abilities, though the change was for the program as a whole and not specific to home - visited families.106 Similarly, IHDP identified large cognitive effects at twenty - four and thirty - six months, but not at twelve months, so the effects can not be attributed solely to home - visiting services.107

Of those that examined immunizations (NFP - Memphis, HFA, HSP, EHS, Queensland, and Early Start), only EHS identified a significant program effect on immunizations, though the size of the effect was quite small and applied to the comparison of the entire treatment group to controls, not specifically to those families who had received home visits.70 The one - year follow - up of the Queensland program also suggested a trend in favor of the intervention group's having higher levels of vaccinations than the control group.71

While existing reviews report positive outcomes for cognitive - behavioral therapy, behaviour management, and parenting interventions, either alone or in combination with family - based approaches, the authors suggest that evidence for interventions with a child - only component was limited because of the small number of studies and that the estimate for child - only interventions was imprecise.

Only a small number of studies have found favourable intervention effects during the early years..

In contrast, a randomized, controlled trial of a practice - based quality improvement initiative in North Carolina led to small changes in receipt of anticipatory guidance (only 18 % of parents of 6 - month - old children in the intervention group discussed all 4 anticipatory guidance topics) and no changes in parent behaviors.30

On the other hand the second group who only received the small group intervention during the second set of 10 weeks, caught up to the first group.

This may mean the amount of small group intervention does not matter, only that it is utilized.

Fourthly, intervention needs to be early, since teenage treatments have only small effects.29

Limitations include sample size was relatively small, had limited racial and ethnic diversity, and the intervention was conducted in only one site.

The finding that the training only condition was ineffectual at some time points, and counterproductive at others is consistent with findings yielded in other, international universal intervention studies, that typically show no or small to moderate effects (Cuijpers, 2003; Roberts et al., 2008; Conduct Prevention Research Group, 2010).

Next, we estimated an overall effect of only preventive interventions, and this yielded a Cohen's d of 0.263; 95 % CI [0.197; 0.329], which is a small effect according to the criteria of Cohen (1988).