Sentences with phrase «randomized evaluation study»

This randomized evaluation study should also assess what type of program characteristics are necessary for an effective yet affordable pre-K program.

Not exact matches

Studies of the Nurse Family Partnership model followed children to 6 years and found significant program effects on language and cognitive functioning as well as fewer behaviour problems in a randomized controlled trial study.24 In addition, more recent evaluations of Healthy Families America have shown small, but favourable effects on young children's development.25, 26

The REACT (Randomized Evaluation of an Algorithm for Crohn's Treatment) study, led by Robarts Clinical Trials at Western University (London, Canada) provides valuable new insights for community gastroenterologists which should benefit patients.

What sets the study apart from most previous evaluations is its randomized, controlled design — a relatively new approach honed by lead author Abhijit Banerjee, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and his colleagues.

The evaluation of THN programs is challenging: randomized controlled trials are often considered the gold standard of scientific study, but conducting trials for THN would often be unethical and fraught with difficulties given the infrequency and unpredictability of overdose.

An analysis of diagnostic test results from the Prospective Multicenter Imaging Study for Evaluation of Chest Pain (PROMISE) trial — in which patients with stable chest pain were randomized to either anatomic or functional testing as an initial diagnostic strategy — showed that the presence and extent of coronary artery disease detected by CT angiography better predicted the risk for future cardiac events than did measures of exercise tolerance or restricted blood flow to the heart muscle.

Their website provides resources on a variety of evaluation approaches from case study, to participatory evaluation, to randomized controlled trials and outcome mapping.

In 1998, Congress mandated an evaluation of Head Start, called the Head Start Impact Study, a randomized trial of more than 4,000 children, ages 3 and 4, newly entering the Head Start program.

To test the procedure, Healey initiated a randomized trial, called the «Shockless IMPLant Evaluation (SIMPLE)» study.

Inclusion Criteria: • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 or 1 • Have histologically or cytologically confirmed advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)(Stage IIIb or greater) • Measurable disease, as defined by Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) 1.1 • Known PD - L1 tumor status as determined by an immunohistochemistry (IHC) assay performed by the central laboratory on tissue obtained at Screening • A woman of childbearing potential must have a negative highly sensitive serum (beta - human chorionic gonadotropin [beta - hCG]-RRB- at Screening within 14 days prior to study drug administration Inclusion Criteria for Crossover: • Participants must have been randomized to Arm A of the study and had radiographic disease progression according to RECIST 1.1 • Participants must have a mandatory biopsy at the time of disease progression according to RECIST 1.1 prior to crossing over.

REVEAL - SCAN: Risk Evaluation and and Education of Alzheimer's Disease - the Study of Communicating Amyloid Neuroimaging (RF1 AG047866) is the first multi-site, randomized clinical trial to examine the impact of learning amyloid imaging results in cognitively normal individuals, and its goal is to answer these questions.

Effect of statin therapy on C - reactive protein levels: the pravastatin inflammation / CRP evaluation (PRINCE): a randomized trial and cohort study

Future evaluation of dietary patterns, including their nutrient and food components, in cohort studies and randomized trials is recommended.

Randomized evaluations of educational interventions are important for producing, in comparison to studies employing other methods, reliable findings about causality.

The most recent findings from the study as reported a few weeks ago are based on the full original sample of children as randomized to treatment and control conditions at the outset of the study rather than the previously studied subsample of children whose parents gave permission for follow - up testing by the evaluation team.

She leads a number of studies that evaluate education programs using rigorous econometric methods, including randomized control trials, propensity score matching methods, and other quasi-experimental evaluation designs.

The effect of an affordable daycare program on health and economic well - being in Rajasthan, India: protocol for a cluster - randomized impact evaluation study

LAKEWOOD, N.J. — November 13, 2015 — The results of a randomized control trial study conducted by Magnolia Consulting, an independent evaluation consulting firm, has confirmed that Achieve3000's programs are extremely effective at improving students» literacy skills.

More recently, Esteban extended his research with two new grants: one supporting a longitudinal study of symptoms of depression among Caucasian, African - American and Latino children; and the other supporting an evaluation of a randomized control trial of the Family Coping Skills Program in a population of low - income Latina mothers.

The evaluation includes an impact study on teacher and student outcomes using a cluster randomized - controlled trial.

Facing History's evaluation department and independent researchers have conducted more than 140 studies (including two randomized controlled trials) of Facing History's program since its inception.

This study from MDRC presents the results of a rigorous, randomized evaluation of the Career Academy approach.

In 2005, Facing History and Ourselves launched a partnership with university scholars and Abt Associates, Inc., a highly experienced research and evaluation organization, to carry out a state of the art, randomized, controlled, experimental study of Facing History and Ourselves» lasting impact on teachers and students.

The study analyzes data from randomized controlled trials and less rigorous evaluations to compare treatments, treated populations and findings across programs.

It comprises more than 800 published papers, including more than 280 evaluation studies, of which more than 145 are randomized controlled trials.

The original randomized - controlled PROSPER evaluation study began in 2001, with approximately 11,000 participating youth and their parents from 28 communities in Iowa and Pennsylvania.

Here are some examples of ways that these research values are being put into practice: the ongoing Educare Randomized Controlled Trial and the Doula Home Visiting Randomized Controlled Trial measure myriad health outcomes; and two studies of Educare by embedded local evaluation partners have explored the relationship of adverse childhood experiences to various childhood outcomes, with a focus on social - emotional and behavioral health.

He has directed numerous program evaluations that have included randomized control studies, implementation / process studies, and qualitative research.

She has been directing a statewide evaluation of Oregon's Healthy Families (HFO) program for over 15 years and recently completed a large - scale randomized study of program effectiveness.

We applied our portfolio of measures to video - recorded visits in several studies, including MIHOPE (the national evaluation of the MIECHV Program), a randomized trial of a communication training course, and a study of the interactive effects of home visitor and parent preferences as influences on how they communicate.

The present study sought to build on previous programme evaluations by using a clustered randomized controlled trial to examine the immediate and long term impact of the programme on children in disadvantaged schools.

In the past 45 years, hundreds of studies focusing on PMT with children with conduct problems have appeared.10 - 12, 15 - 18 Study designs have ranged from case descriptions, single - case designs, and simple pre - to post-treatment evaluations to large - scale, randomized controlled trials with various control and alternative treatment comparison conditions.

The evaluation includes an impact study on student outcomes using a cluster randomized controlled trial.

SRI's four - year evaluation of the New Teacher Center's (NTC's) i3 validation grant combines cluster randomized controlled trials at two study sites and a difference - in - differences approach at the third site to assess the implementation and impact of NTC's intensive new teacher mentoring and support.

As Table 1 indicates, a number of economic evaluations of parenting studies conducted alongside randomized controlled trials have been published, some set in schools, others focused on pre-school age children.

The present study provided a preliminary evaluation of a multi-family group psychoeducation intervention using a randomized waitlist control design (n = 41).