Patients were asked to complete the Visual Analog Anxiety Scale, Visual Analog Pain Scale, and Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale HADSS) both prior to and after receiving four consecutive sessions of Healing Touch intervention, attention-controlled intervention, or the standard of care.
In the WISE intervention, participants received six sessions of the intervention session; the sessions were delivered individually; comparison group participants watched health-related films; and participants had never been offered any form of NRT while incarcerated.
We evaluated the cost-effectiveness of the complete six-session intervention and the two sessions of the intervention that addressed condom use skills.
The WINGS intervention, particularly the two sessions of the intervention which focussed on condom use skills, could be cost-effective in preventing HIV among women.
Intervention-level factors which may modify the treatment effect include: where the intervention is delivered (home, clinic or community); intensity/frequency of sessions; timing of intervention onset; and the presence/absence of "well-child" services already offered in the community.
The third part of the intervention consisted of two peer group sessions of the intervention GPs, eight and ten months after the initial training session.
Intervention group participants will receive four weekly group sessions of the intervention in the 4 weeks prior to their release.
Of these, three women (2.9%) did not receive the intervention, six women (5.9%) completed one session, and 92 (91%) received both sessions of the intervention as planned.
This telephone-delivered ACT intervention was conducted in the U.S. using a single-arm study that included an average of 3.5 sessions of telephone intervention [ 21].
Patients are randomized, asked to access four online sessions of the intervention or control asthma management program, and are then followed for one year.
