Evaluating a randomized controlled trial involving a tailored behavioral intervention conducted to improve blood pressure control.
This article summarizes some of the key findings on the effectiveness of a bottom-up training intervention conducted in 2014.
The first author of this study, who also followed the development of the intervention, conducted all data collection.
This was a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of a community-based multifactorial falls intervention conducted from October 2002 to December 2007.
Imagery is employed extensively in sport as a pivotal intervention conducted by sport psychologists to help improve athlete performance (Hall, Rodgers, and Barr, 1990; Kizildag and Tiryaki, 2012).
A survey instrument was completed by the first responder, immediately preceding an educational intervention conducted at the work location of the first responder.
This major study aimed to assess the impact of an educational intervention conducted with public health center (PHC) professionals on health outcomes of children whose mothers were treated by these professionals during pregnancy (Vitolo et al., 2014).
Experimental and quasi-experimental studies were included if they evaluated a patient hand hygiene intervention conducted in an acute or chronic healthcare facility and included HCAI incidence and/or patient hand hygiene rates as an outcome.
In a randomized controlled trial of a preoperative education intervention conducted for Chinese cardiac patients, we observed a greater effect on symptoms of anxiety and depression than that reported with regard to similar interventions in western care settings.
We report a cluster randomized controlled trial of a village sanitation intervention conducted in rural Maharashtra, India designed to identify an effect of village sanitation on average child height, an outcome of increasing importance to economists.
Another inspiring result came from the study of the dietary shift intervention conducted among African Americans and native Americans, which suggested that switching diet from a high fat low fiber diet to a high fiber diet low fat diet not only changed the gut microbiota community but also reduced the proliferation of colonic epithelial cells (O'Keefe et al., 2015).
