Sentences with phrase «preventive intervention research»

The prevalence of bullying observed in this study suggests the importance of preventive intervention research targeting bullying behaviors.

Support for this research was provided by National Institute of Mental Health Grant P30 M439246 - 15 to establish a Preventive Intervention Research Center at Arizona State University, Grant 1R01 MH49155 - 05 to evaluate a preventive intervention for bereaved families, and Grant 2R01 MH49155 - 06 to conduct a 6 - year follow - up of a preventive intervention for bereaved families.

She is also serving as co-investigator on a preventive intervention research to examine the effects of the Treatment Foster Care Oregon (TFCO) intervention on developmental trajectories of problem behaviors in delinquent females during adolescence on young adult outcomes.

The paper concludes with discussions of the gaps in current intervention research, of barriers encountered in the implementation and evaluation of family - based prevention programs, and of the implications for future preventive intervention research and for social policy related to family - based preventive interventions.

Nevertheless, the authors conclude that «bullying is a serious problem for U.S. youth,» and that «the prevalence of bullying observed in this study suggests the importance of preventive intervention research targeting bullying behaviors.»

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.

Not exact matches

Tronick's research elucidates the mechanism by which stress gets into the body and brain, leading us in turn to appropriate preventive interventions.

Globally, only 38 percent of infants under the age of six months are exclusively breastfed, though research shows that optimal breastfeeding is the single most effective preventive intervention for reducing infant mortality.

Dr. Lester and his colleague, James F. Padbury, MD, pediatrician - in - chief and chief of Neonatal / Perinatal Medicine at Women & Infants Hospital and the William and Mary Oh - William and Elsa Zopfi Professor of Pediatrics for Perinatal Research at the Alpert Medical School, published research in September 2014 in Pediatrics, which found that a single - family room NICU environment provides for appropriate levels of maternal involvement, developmental support, and staff involvement, which are essential to provide the kind of care that can optimize the medical and neurodevelopmental outcome of the preterm infant and lead to the development of preventive interventions to reduce later impResearch at the Alpert Medical School, published research in September 2014 in Pediatrics, which found that a single - family room NICU environment provides for appropriate levels of maternal involvement, developmental support, and staff involvement, which are essential to provide the kind of care that can optimize the medical and neurodevelopmental outcome of the preterm infant and lead to the development of preventive interventions to reduce later impresearch in September 2014 in Pediatrics, which found that a single - family room NICU environment provides for appropriate levels of maternal involvement, developmental support, and staff involvement, which are essential to provide the kind of care that can optimize the medical and neurodevelopmental outcome of the preterm infant and lead to the development of preventive interventions to reduce later impairment.

Dr. Lester and his colleague, James F. Padbury, MD, pediatrician - in - chief and chief of Neonatal / Perinatal Medicine at Women & Infants Hospital and the William and Mary Oh — William and Elsa Zopfi Professor of Pediatrics for Perinatal Research at the Alpert Medical School, published research in September 2014 in Pediatrics, which found that a single - family room NICU environment provides for appropriate levels of maternal involvement, developmental support, and staff involvement, which are essential to provide the kind of care that can optimize the medical and neurodevelopmental outcome of the preterm infant and lead to the development of preventive interventions to reduce later impResearch at the Alpert Medical School, published research in September 2014 in Pediatrics, which found that a single - family room NICU environment provides for appropriate levels of maternal involvement, developmental support, and staff involvement, which are essential to provide the kind of care that can optimize the medical and neurodevelopmental outcome of the preterm infant and lead to the development of preventive interventions to reduce later impresearch in September 2014 in Pediatrics, which found that a single - family room NICU environment provides for appropriate levels of maternal involvement, developmental support, and staff involvement, which are essential to provide the kind of care that can optimize the medical and neurodevelopmental outcome of the preterm infant and lead to the development of preventive interventions to reduce later impairment.

Heart function in morbidly obese patients returns to normal after bariatric surgery but not after lifestyle intervention, reveals research published today in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.

Further research on host genomics is likely to identify genetic contributions to the phenotypic variability seen in tuberculosis infection, and lead to improvements in the efficacy of preventive and therapeutic interventions.

This committee evaluates how well current funding strategies meet the needs for research on preventive, therapeutic, and services interventions.

NIH Clinical Center (CC)-- Est. in 1953 The NIH Clinical Center, America's research hospital, provides a versatile clinical research environment enabling the NIH mission to improve human health by investigating the pathogenesis of disease; conducting first - in - human clinical trials with an emphasis on rare diseases and diseases of high public health impact; developing state - of - the - art diagnostic, preventive, and therapeutic interventions; training the current and next generations of clinical researchers; and, ensuring that clinical research is ethical, efficient, and of high scientific quality.

His research focuses primarily on (1) strengthening economic evaluations of preventive interventions, (2) facilitating evidence - based policy - making through strategic investments in preventive services, and (3) evaluating the utility of performance - based financing to access new resources for improving health.

Her current research examines the relationship between risk and protective factors, preventive interventions, and youth outcomes; the design and evaluation of tools to facilitate the use of protective factors in strength - based and evidence - informed practice; and the development of community - based infrastructures to promote and sustain the use of such tools in practice environments.

Further, it explains why and how collaborative funding across institutes that fund research and agencies that provide funding for preventive services could advance both knowledge regarding effective preventive interventions and the provision of evidence based preventive services at a broader scale.

That research generated a wealth of knowledge regarding the etiology of problem behaviors that has guided the development of numerous subsequent preventive interventions.

(a) Provides employment and / or practicum experiences with adolescents in urban public school settings; (b) Provides ongoing support in the development of skills necessary to be an effective group facilitator, utilizing a science - based affective curriculum; (c) Heightens facilitators» understanding of the cultural and contextual factors that impact the psychosocial development of urban adolescents and their ability to achieve academically; (d) Exposes facilitators to the process of designing, implementing and evaluating large scale preventive interventions; (e) Examines educational policy and its implications for practice and research for urban education and school reform; and (f) Encourages facilitators» interest and pursuit of careers in education, psychology social work, counseling and / or other related fields.

A growing body of research has examined the impact on behaviour and school performance of educational, youth - development, preventive, and clinical interventions that promote social and emotional learning (SEL).

Such preventive interventions are backed by a significant body of research (see Durlak & Wells, 1997; Durlak & Wells, 1998; Greenberg et al., 2001).

Her research and clinical work focus on parenting, infant and early childhood mental health, and the development of preventive interventions to promote resilience in families, with a special interest in military and veteran families with young children.

In a recent review of the distribution of research grant emphases in the area of violence, several NIH institutes classified their studies into one of three categories: (a) preintervention studies, which included risk or protective studies, population - based epidemiological studies, or basic prevention development; (b) efficacy studies, which included laboratory trials of the impact of specific preventive or treatment interventions targeted at disruptive behavior disorders, including conduct disorder; and (c) effectiveness research, which included studies of the effectiveness, dissemination, or transportability of interventions into community (nonacademic) settings.

Should randomized controlled trials be the «gold standard» for research on preventive interventions for children

Maternal postnatal depression (PND) is common with a prevalence in the developed world of around 13 % 1 and a far higher prevalence in some developing world contexts.2, 3,4 There is a considerable body of evidence attesting to the fact that PND limits a mother's capacity to engage positively with her infant, with several studies showing that PND compromises child cognitive, behavioural and emotional development.5 It has proved difficult to predict PND antenatally6 and, in any event, preventive interventions have largely proved ineffective.7 Research and clinical attention has, therefore, been focused on the treatment of manifest PND.

The IY parent programmes have been subject to rigorous research, generating international evidence of effectiveness as treatment and preventive interventions.14 — 18 One of the most rigorously researched is the IY basic parent programme, 19 a group - based programme for parents of children aged 3 — 6 years.

She is particularly interested in using this research to inform practice, with respect to preventive interventions to promote positive outcomes for children reared in high - risk circumstances, such as home visitation and Early Head Start.

Partnering with community stakeholders: Engaging rural African American families in basic research and the Strong African American Families preventive intervention program.

She has served as a senior member of the Preventive Intervention Project research team at Judge Baker Children's Center, which compares two family - based prevention programs for early adolescents at risk for depression because they have a parent with a depressive disorder.

Research interests include the development, implementation, evaluation, and dissemination of preventive intervention programs for children and adolescents at risk for depression, with a focus on at - risk families

Direct and indirect latent - variable parenting outcomes of two universal family - focused preventive interventions: Extending a public health - oriented research base.

Her research projects and collaborations include 1) basic science studies on commitment, cohabitation, aggression, infidelity, family background, relationship processes and psychopathology, military families, and adolescent and child adjustment as well as 2) studies on the effectiveness of preventive relationship interventions for couples and individuals (including gene - environment interactions).

Dr. Leve's research is focused on the translation of basic research to inform preventive interventions.

Despite the emergence of a number of preventive interventions for aggressive behaviour in early childhood settings, a number of key research gaps remain.

For the past 20 years, Gladstone has focused her research on the development, implementation, evaluation, and dissemination of preventive interventions targeting depression in children and families.

For the past 20 years, she has focused her research on the development, implementation, evaluation, and dissemination of preventive interventions targeting depression in children and families.

His primary research interests include the development and prevention of child antisocial behavior and related problem behaviors, such as substance use and abuse, academic failure, and high risking sexual behavior; Coercion Theory; the development of preventive interventions for incarcerated parents, their children, and the caregivers of their children; early childhood education and intervention; youth mentoring; preventive interventions for physical health problems; and the development and prevention of adjustment problems during adulthood, including substance abuse, intimate partner violence, and suicidality.

He is a Senior Research Scientist with the Family Translational Research Group at New York University, where he is involved in a wide variety of basic research and preventive intervention pResearch Scientist with the Family Translational Research Group at New York University, where he is involved in a wide variety of basic research and preventive intervention pResearch Group at New York University, where he is involved in a wide variety of basic research and preventive intervention presearch and preventive intervention projects.

Dr. Fisher's work on children in foster care and the child welfare system includes (a) basic research characterizing the effects of early stress on neurobiological systems such as the HPA axis and areas of the prefrontal cortex involved in executive functioning; (b) the development of preventive interventions, including the Treatment Foster Care of Oregon Program for Preschoolers (TFCO - P) and the Kids in Transition to School Program (KITS); and (c) the dissemination of evidence - based practice in community settings.

Given the concurrent behavioral and emotional difficulties associated with bullying, as well as the potential long - term negative outcomes for these youth, the issue of bullying merits serious attention, both for future research and preventive intervention.

Given the size and growth rate of the U.S. Hispanic population (Marotta & Garcia, 2003), as well as the large proportion of children and adolescents within this population (Ramírez & de la Cruz, 2003), identifying predictors of engagement into parent - centered preventive interventions for Hispanic youth is an important research direction.

As such, universal family - focused preventive intervention efforts to date have focused primarily on teaching parenting skills such as parental monitoring and the use of appropriate discipline techniques that have been demonstrated through basic and applied intervention research to be related to adaptive adolescent outcomes such as delayed initiation of substance use (Kumpfer and Alvarado 2003; Taylor and Biglan 1998).

Although there has been limited investigation of family engagement in preventive interventions for general populations, the research has yielded several preliminary findings that warrant further study.

Results provide qualified support for the TPB and illustrate its relevance to preventive research and interventions.

Bringing basic research on early experience and stress neurobiology to bear on preventive interventions for neglected and maltreated children