Sentences with phrase «scale effectiveness trials»

More funding is needed for large - scale effectiveness trials that examine ways of disseminating evidence - based interventions in real - world settings and for large - scale trials that compare the efficacy of different evidence - based programs for different populations.

From 1999 - 2005 they conducted a large scale effectiveness trial with 700 foster families in the San Diego child welfare system.

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The controversy came to a head in March when the National Institutes of Health issued a notice of a competition soliciting participation in a large - scale clinical trial to evaluate the effectiveness of fetal surgery as a treatment for spina bifida.

Conduct large - scale clinical trials involving high - risk populations to determine the full effectiveness of the vaccine.

Effectiveness trials aim to test whether an intervention can work at scale in a large number of schools.

She teaches contracts, bankruptcy, and consumer laws, and is currently working on a large - scale, randomized control trial evaluating the effectiveness of legal and counseling interventions to help individuals in financial distress.

Importantly, states were required to spend at least three - quarters of the federal funds on home visiting models that met federal standards of evidence - based effectiveness.1 As many policy scholars have noted, that a national initiative brought the importance of evidence - based practice to the forefront of public policy is a triumph for social science and demonstrates the importance of rigorous program evaluation.2 With that triumph, however, comes a responsibility to ensure that the public's expectations for success of these programs are consistent with what researchers understand about the empirical evidence — will the same positive outcomes found in programs» randomized controlled trials emerge when those programs are taken to scale?

The present study of a full - scale trial of BEST YMH will allow the researchers to test its effectiveness as a treatment and a youth engagement tool.

Findings From a Multiyear Scale - Up Effectiveness Trial of Open Court Reading.

Large - scale effectiveness and dissemination trials, many of them in international settings, are providing important information concerning the feasibility of implementing PMT interventions in the real world.

Two studies have analysed cost effectiveness of CBT for severe health anxiety delivered in a conventional face - to - face format compared with treatment as usual using data from randomised controlled trials.8, 9 In the first study, it was found that CBT but not the control condition reduced consumption of primary and secondary healthcare contacts, but total costs were unchanged in both conditions.8 In the second study, a large - scale randomised trial, the health economic analyses showed that there were no significant differences between the two treatment conditions.9 In both of the above studies, CBT was superior in reducing health anxiety symptoms compared with treatment as usual, which means that as costs were similar across groups, CBT is likely to be the more cost - effective treatment option.

Increasingly, in complex public health evaluation research, there are questions about whether all relevant benefits can be captured in a single summary outcome measure such as QALY or unit of «effectiveness» or net benefit approach17 which is why the use of a cost - consequence analysis (CCA) framework is being recommended for such economic evaluations.18 Other outcomes from the trial such as the Parent — Infant Relationship Global Assessment Scale (an observational measure that is independently rated blind to group allocation) will be included in the CCA so that all costs and outcomes from the trial can be displayed transparently for decision - makers to consider trade - offs themselves.

Results, including the magnitude of effect sizes, are consistent with findings from a large - scale cluster - randomized trial demonstrating the effectiveness of StandUp's predecessor, Teen Choices, in preventing peer violence (Levesque et al., in press).