In 11 groups, patients followed a respiratory rehabilitation program; 9 groups were cohorts without specific interventions or controls in randomized controlled trials receiving usual care, patient education or placebo and in two groups, patients received inhaled bronchodilators.
The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Fresh Start (WFS) is a randomized controlled trial of nutrition education to promote farmers' market fruit and vegetable (F/V) purchases and consumption among women enrolled in WIC.
CONCLUSIONS: The results supported implementation of a randomized controlled trial, building in education at the provider and family level.
Systematic reviews report few well-designed randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of education alone [ 10].
Impact on clinical behavior of face-to-face continuing medical education blended with online spaced education: a randomized controlled trial.
Changing clinicians' behavior: a randomized controlled trial of fees and education.
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.
Perinatal depression: a randomized controlled trial of an antenatal education intervention for primiparas.
Importantly, several randomized controlled trials have shown that education alone does not impact the purchase of healthy foods, and that cost reduction and/or promotions are needed to increase fruit and vegetable intake [ 32- 34].
Demonstrating the importance of intervening both pre- and postnatally, Wambach et al. [ 43], conducted a randomized controlled trial to evaluate an education and counseling intervention designed to promote breastfeeding initiation and continuation for adolescent mothers (15 18 years) starting in the second trimester and continuing until the fourth week postpartum.
