This study evaluated whether encouraging formula-feeding caregivers to be sensitive to infant satiety cues would alter feeding practices and reduce infant formula intake and weight gain.
But exercise and diet are rarely addressed in HIV primary care visits, missing a great opportunity to evaluate and encourage these behaviors.
This paper demonstrates that an ethnographic approach to evaluating implementation encourages reflection, flexibility and openness to new ideas – and, when informed by and integrated with quantitative data, results in a rich, nuanced picture of the implementation process.
Many of the promising practices highlighted in this paper have not yet been evaluated, and we encourage all field practitioners to formally evaluate VMMC interventions targeting specific barriers and triggers of demand, both to know how well their programs are working and to strengthen the overall evidence base informing demand generation.
For the disclosed risks or concerns, tailored messages were printed to enhance patients' self-esteem (e.g., no one deserves to be hit or there are ways to get your credentials evaluated) and to encourage discussions with the clinician and/or contacts with psychosocial counselor and community services.
Intra-operative approaches to MRI-guided BT involving low-field (0.2 0.5 T) (Cormack et al. 2000; Ares et al. 2009) and high-field closed-bore (1.5 3 T) (Menard et al. 2004; Susil et al. 2004) have been evaluated clinically with encouraging early results.
In keeping with this idea, some authors encourage evaluating computerised decision support systems not only with randomised trials [ 19].
The paper analyses cultural and social influences on attitudes to girls' education, evaluates initiatives that encourage girls' participation, and presents promising strategies and models.
A recent study examined attempts to positively influence and subsequently evaluate interventions to encourage early presentation of women with breast cancer (Burgess et al, 2009).
The second priority relates to the appropriate selection of augmentative and alternative communication strategies; this priority also includes evaluating ways to encourage people to use the strategies in everyday life.
