Sentences with phrase «reported efficacy of the approach»

Despite small clinical studies that have reported efficacy of the approach, the mechanism of action is poorly understood.

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Although professional lactation support can improve the duration of overall breast feeding, its effect in improving exclusive breast feeding is unclear.11 18 22 Thus far, studies that report improvement of rates of exclusive breastfeeding have involved mainly community based peer counselling strategies.23 24 25 Even then, a randomised trial in the UK recently cast doubt on the efficacy of this approach.26 There are current recommendations from NICE for the UK - wide implementation of the baby friendly initiative.4 5 6 The 2006 NICE costing report on routine postnatal care of women and their babies estimates that efforts to improve rates of breast feeding will result in substantial cost savings for the NHS.6

Some school districts have reported decreases in court referrals after implementation of SRO programs, especially for minority students, but there is little rigorous evidence on the efficacy of this approach.

An IPPR report, «Freedom's Orphans», published in 2006 described the way that the efficacy of low SES communities was depressed, and how a particular approach to education both inside and outside of the classroom could impact on this.

Second, even if the reported variance did reflect the causal effects of schools, the approach confuses prevalence with efficacy.

It may be, as Michael Hunter Schwartz argued at this conference, that the authors of the Carnegie Report exaggerated the efficacy of this approach for this generation of students.18 It is doubtful that they really do play along with the classroom conversation instead of doing some form of multitasking aided by the Internet.

Hopefully Motorola's upcoming fitness - focused Moto 360 Sport will approach the market with more finesse, but as of now the Moto 360 is little more than a glorified step tracker, a metric whose efficacy reported in isolation has been discounted countless times.

We have previously reported the immediate effects of this psychosocial family - based intervention on independently observed aspects of the caregiving environment and child social competence during unfamiliar peer entry, including approach and regulatory behaviors.30 Thus, we have demonstrated the efficacy of the intervention in altering the targeted risk factors.

Some report that by attempting to program or manualize treatment psychotherapists may actually be reducing efficacy, although the unstructured approach of many psychotherapists can not appeal to patients motived to solve their difficulties through the application of specific techniques different from their past «mistakes.»