Surgical procedures on soft tissue are generally defined as "first phase interventions" (IP) and aim to debulk soft tissues while maintaining the same skeletal volume [ 1– 6].
16 Second phase (intervention group): a programme was designed to train PHCTs' doctors and nurses.
Third phase (intervention group): from April 2007 to April 2008 the interventions focused on the identification of patients with uncontrolled hypertension and the improvement of their management.
3. Third phase (intervention, 13 months): the interventions carried out during this phase will aim at identifying uncontrolled hypertensive patients and act on them to improve the control of their condition.
When IP procedures fail in obtaining satisfactory results, "second phase interventions" (IIP) of orthognathic surgery are performed in order to increase the skeletal volume of the pharynx and stretching the soft tissues, producing, as final result, an effective enlargement of the air column.
In the first phase, an intervention was systematically developed based on the intervention mapping approach, which describes a process for developing theory- and evidence-based intervention programs [ 21].
The integrated partnership covers the first phase of intervention development through final phases that ultimately facilitate more global, universal translation of changes in attitudes, norms, and systems.
The trial was conducted from March 2005 (month 1) to April 2006 (month 14) and included two phases [10]: during the first phase, an intervention consisting of a physical and educational program was administered to Group 1, while Group 2 served as control.
The first phase the intervention focuses on psycho-education regarding the participants' personality profile and coherent problematic coping behavior, like substance abuse or aggression.
Based on the results from the first phase, the intervention was further developed (figure 2) and evaluated in a second primary school in an area of high social deprivation, with three Year 5 classes.
The researchers will not permit any variations in the protocol of the first phase of the intervention (needs assessment), but broad variations are permitted in the second phase of the intervention.
