Our purpose was to study a national intervention programme for the prevention of birth injuries with the aim to elucidate how the main interventions of self-assessment, peer review, feedback and written agreement for change affected the teams and their mental model of patient safety, and thereby their readiness for change.
Our results revealed the importance of adjusting for any group differences in mental health when evaluating the effect of interventions on self-reported physical function.
The trial will test an intervention of self- management training plus usual vocational rehabilitation against usual vocational rehabilitation care only.
The positive effects of the interventions on self-efficacy were associated with improved infant outcomes only over the short-term.
The need for research that combines psychological interventions with educational packages to understand the impact of psychological interventions on self-management behaviours has been recognised [ 11].
Patients' experiences of interventions for self-harm were strikingly diverse.
The findings generate the preliminary hypothesis that personal circumstances and life history are major influences on the choice of interventions for self-harm.
The secondary question is: Which participant and intervention characteristics of self-management support interventions for informal caregivers of people with dementia are associated with larger effects?
Results from this study will add to the knowledge base about constructing interventions capable of self-propagation and distribution and how they may influence behaviour in local networks.
The present paper provides insight into how web-based computer-tailored obesity prevention interventions consisting of self-regulation concepts and text-driven and video-driven messages can be developed systematically.
The study employed a mixed methods design, including qualitative observations and interviews and quantitative pre- and post-intervention measures of self-efficacy in engaging with fathers, team culture, self-reported engagement of fathers on caseloads and satisfaction with training.
