Sentences with phrase «primary studies evaluating»

Economic analyses of primary studies evaluating interventions promoting mental health and well - being at work

Lee and colleagues conducted an overview of 10 systematic reviews that evaluated the efficacy of aromatherapy (with and without massage) in reducing hypertension, depression, anxiety, pain relief, and symptoms of dementia.26 The authors determined that, though three of the reviews were of good methodological quality, many of the primary studies they evaluated were not.

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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.

We selected all studies in which the primary or secondary goal was to evaluate the association between breastfeeding and UC or CD as separate entities.

The effects were similar to the results of meta - analysis of all studies, whether nausea and vomiting was evaluated as a primary or secondary outcome.

The authors analyzed six studies that evaluated the effects of meat and vegetarian diets on mortality with a goal of giving primary care physicians evidence - based guidance about whether they should discourage patients from eating meat.

The two primary outcomes in this study evaluating adjunctive brivaracetam in the treatment of partial - onset seizures in adults with epilepsy were statistically significant and clinically relevant,» said Dr. Pavel Klein, director, Mid-Atlantic Epilepsy and Sleep Center.

So much has changed but many schools are stuck in the past,» said Joel Breakstone, the director of SHEG, which has designed social studies curriculum that teaches students how to evaluate primary sources.

These findings are generally consistent with those from recent systematic reviews, some of which also included trials of statins for secondary prevention.47,51 - 53 Similar to other meta - analyses of primary and secondary prevention trials, 54,55 this review found no association between use of statins and increased risk of muscle - related harms, although some observational studies and randomized rechallenge trials found statins associated with increased risk of myopathy or joint - related symptoms.56 - 58 The large HOPE - 3 trial found statins associated with increased risk of cataract surgery, an unanticipated finding.14 No other trial of statins for primary prevention evaluated risk of cataracts or cataract surgery.

The primary research question of the study was to evaluate if maternal plasma DNA sequencing could accurately confirm or exclude fetal trisomy 21 compared with full karyotyping among pregnancies clinically indicated for amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling.

The study is ongoing and patients will continue to be followed to further evaluate the primary and secondary endpoints.

• Patients must have adequate coagulation (international normalized ratio (INR) or prothrombin time (PT), partial thromboplastin time (PTT) ≤ 1.5 times ULN) • Adequate liver function (total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 times the ULN, alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) ≤ 2.5 times ULN Exclusion Criteria: • Presence of active / uncontrolled central nervous system involvement • History of clinically significant cardiac disease; uncontrolled hypertension • Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) < 45 % • Allogeneic stem cell transplant within 100 days before first dose of study drug • Known history of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection • Chronic or active hepatitis B or C, requiring antiviral therapy • Evidence of history of bleeding disorder, dialysis, or coexisting cancer that is distinct in primary site or histology from the cancer evaluated in this study • Serious, uncontrolled infection • Unresolved chronic toxicity > grade 1 from prior therapy • Use of strong CYP3A4 inhibitors or strong inducers within 7 days prior to the start of study treatment and for the duration of the study

FORWARD1: A Randomized, Open Label Phase 3 Study to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of Mirvetuximab Soravtansine (IMGN853) Versus Investigator's Choice of Chemotherapy in Women with Folate Receptor Alpha - Positive Advanced Epithelial Ovarian Cancer, Primary Peritoneal Cancer or Fallopian Tube Cancer

Another systematic review limited to primary prevention trials also found no association with increased risk of diabetes (4 trials; RR, 1.05 [95 % CI, 0.84 to 1.32]-RRB-.48 However, individual trials were inconsistent, with 1 large trial (JUPITER) reporting an increased risk (3.0 % vs 2.4 %; RR, 1.25 [95 % CI, 1.05 to 1.49]-RRB-.29 The JUPITER study was the only primary prevention trial reporting diabetes risk that evaluated high - potency statin therapy.

The first study tried to evaluate how healthy rats would respond to a 3 - week diet rich in sucrose where chia made up the primary dietary source.

In what appears to be the first study of yoga and stress in primary health care, Swedish researchers evaluated the effects on patients with a range of stress - related symptoms and diagnoses, from the pain of supraspinatus syndrome to hypertension to depression.

This study evaluated a new set of cardiac patients for the primary outcome of diabetes, which was not significantly associated with fasting (after multiple - comparisons correction) in the first study (37) and, thus, required additional evaluation as the primary hypothesis test (38).

The study evaluated 90 English primary schools and 50 secondaries where it was taught to more than 10,000 pupils in Year 1 (aged five - six) and Year 7 (11 - 12).

The guidelines will provide for a sequential course of study for each of the grades kindergarten through 12 and must include, at a minimum, the following: (1) knowledge of the research process and how information is created and produced; (2) skills in using information resources and critical thinking about those resources; (3) the abilities to evaluate information critically and competently, to recognize relevant primary and secondary information, and to distinguish among facts, points of view, and opinions; (4) access to information and information tools; and (5) an understanding of economic, legal, and social issues surrounding the use of information, and how to use information ethically and legally.

An example of an existing EEF project that met our usual criteria is Thinking, Doing, Talking Science, which had previously been evaluated in 16 primary schools through a match study.

This study discusses and evaluates a uniquely designed, low - cost, scalable program designed to improve the governance and performance of primary and middle schools in the Punjab province of Pakistan.

evaluating Intellectual Development under subject headings for language arts, mathematics, social studies and science, although the Primary Program document also lists learning outcomes from the personal planning and fine arts curricula under this area of development

Song, Wang & Tang, 2016 A Hiatus of the Greenhouse Effect http://www.nature.com/articles/srep33315 [T] he primary goal of this study is to investigate the spatiotemporal evolution of the greenhouse effect to better evaluate its potential impact.

These advances have had limited impact on community care, with current data indicating high unmet need28 - 30 and poorer quality and outcomes for community treatment compared with efficacy studies.31, 32 We address these gaps by evaluating a quality improvement intervention aimed at improving access to evidence - based treatments for depression (particularly CBT and antidepressant medication) in primary care settings.

A pilot study evaluating strengths - based coaching for primary school students: Enhancing engagement and hope.

This event was part of an NHMRC funded research project «Evaluating the effectiveness of comprehensive primary health care in local communities» being conducted at the Southgate Institute for Health Society and Equity at Flinders University The aim of the symposium was to feed back some of the key emerging findings from the study, and to engage primary health care practitioners and policy makers in debate and discussion about the implications of these findings for primary health care policy and practice.

The primary aim of the present study was to evaluate if previously reported treatment gains of a parent management training (PMT) program, administered via Internet, were retained from post to the 18 - month follow - up.

The current study involved evaluating two versions of the AOP, each containing two 10 - week school - based components — Social Life Skills (SLS; Roberts C. et al., 2003) and Optimistic Thinking Skills (OTS; Roberts R. et al., 2003) implemented in Grades 6 and 7, respectively, plus a self - directed program for parents and families (PF; Drake - Brockman and Roberts, 2001) to be implemented in the second half of the last year of primary school.

Ongoing since 2011 Principal Investigator: Tracy Gladstone, Ph.D. with Benjamin Van Voorhees, M.D., University of Illinois at Chicago Funded by the National Institute on Mental Health This multi-site study was designed to evaluate a primary care / Internet - based depression prevention program for at - risk adolescents and their families.

The primary aims of the present study were to evaluate an interactive evidence - based computer parent training program designed to improve parents» knowledge and behavior in regard to assisting their children during distressing immunization injections.

The primary research aim of this study was to evaluate a time - efficient, automated computer program designed to teach parents to engage in evidence - based behavior during their preschooler's immunization injections.

The primary goal of the present study was to evaluate the relative long - term efficacy of FCBT and CCBT for child anxiety.