Thus, we lack consensus on what intervention activities constitute a community mobilization intervention, what a "mobilized community" looks like, and how that mobilization is expected to result in the desired program outcomes.
Further, few authors have laid out a conceptual model or program theory that explains how community participation and mobilization is expected to lead to specific outcomes: what is the mechanism of effect?
Hence, extra-articular K-wire insertion, which allows early mobilization of all joints, is expected to have better results in industrial injuries while the difference in closed extra-articular fractures caused by low-velocity injuries may not reach statistical significance.
Low average path length (highest being 3.50) is a sign that the network presents small-world characteristics and the knowledge mobilization to the whole network is expected to be conducted only in a few hops.
Finally, the peak of PB CD34+ cells was timed according to the mobilization strategy adopted, as a larger variability in PB CD34+ kinetics is expected after chemo-mobilization.
It could therefore be expected to improve mobilization within 24 hours after total knee arthroplasty.
The difference was seen early (at 3 months), which might be expected since the mobilization started earlier, but the difference prevailed at the 1-year follow-up.
Continuous infusion of ropivacaine intraarticulary did not improve postoperative analgesia at rest relative to extraarticular administration, but it appeared to reduce the incidence of high pain intensity during first exercises, and could therefore be expected to improve mobilization up to 24 h after total knee arthroplasty.
Thus, Avahan provides a unique opportunity to evaluate the potential added value of a community mobilization intervention on HIV prevention outcomes as well as to examine the impact of community mobilization on additional outcomes that would not be expected from more traditional, targeted intervention strategies.
This cross-sectional, dose response design, using an independent measure of strength of treatment at the cluster level, allowed us to explore whether (high) community mobilization leads to improved program outcomes above and beyond what would be expected from the core Avahan HIV interventions (no/low mobilization).
