Nevertheless, clinicians should consider using structured interventions to promote self-managed walking in patients with intermittent claudication, as opposed to simple "go home and walk" advice, when supervised exercise training is unavailable or impractical.
It is likely that after the first impact of the WHO guidelines on cancer pain after their first publication in 1986, the present overall strategy for managing cancer pain in Italy would need more structured interventions to improve and standardise quality of care.
Referencing what the report calls the "undergraduate research movement" in the United States, its authors, Mick Healey and Alan Jenkins, call for a "research-active curriculum", stating that: "such curricular experience should and can be mainstreamed for all or many students, and achieved through structured interventions at course team, departmental, institutional and national levels".
Given challenges associated with EOL conversations [ 17, 18], structured interventions [ 19] and decision aids [ 20] are encouraged to promote understanding of management options and decision-making.
Relatively short-term structured interventions are easier to disseminate within health services, and therefore the Positive Memory Training protocol being adopted within the current trial has the potential to be both widely available and cost-effective.
Patients may find it difficult to attend a regularly structured intervention or to accept a traditional psychological intervention because these can be both emotionally and physically draining.
The specific targeting of co-morbid conditions within complex mental health problems lends itself to the development of short-term structured interventions which are relatively easy to disseminate within health services.
Behavioural ("lifestyle") interventions have been shown to be potentially more cost-effective than supervised activity ("structured" interventions) and are also more easily generalisable to populations with access to different facilities [ 30].
Furthermore, studies in which peer support was the major intervention component were excluded, as peer support is thought to act via different mechanisms to professionally led and structured interventions [ 94].
Using this data, ministers of health and finance, heads of state, development partners and civil society leaders are working in close partnership to structure interventions around the foci of transmission to maximize health investments.
The search for reliable risk factors is a staple among both scholars and policymakers concerned with structuring interventions designed to reduce aggressive and violent behavior.
