Multilevel interventions using a social ecological approach may be necessary to change population behaviors contributing to the rise of obesity.
Despite the high prevalence of obesity among African-American women and modest success in behavioral weight loss interventions, the development and testing of weight management interventions using a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach have been limited.
We discuss how the framework can be used to characterize different interventions using a common language and structure, to aid planning and analysis of interventions, and to facilitate the evaluation of interventions with respect to their structure and outcomes.
This analysis examined differences between rural and urban drivers in terms of self-reported risk taking for driving behaviors associated with fatal crashes and attitudes toward safety interventions using a large-scale survey.
Additional interventions using a child's own cord blood cells are being studied as well.
An innovative intervention process was carried out among students with ADHD with the aim of comparing two interventions using a metacognitive approach.
He hopes that as a physician, he'll be able to spearhead health literacy, nutrition, and school-based interventions using a community-based participatory research model.
The researchers hope to first test such interventions using a computer model that simulates how people, rats, and the bacteria commingle in the favela.
The pre-Ticket Act initiatives represent SSA's early efforts to implement demonstration projects, which proved that it was feasible to implement large-scale employment interventions using a randomized controlled trial design.
