However, a recently updated Cochrane review of 'Support during pregnancy for women at increased risk of low birth weight' (LBW) [ 7] found 18 RCTs and concluded that programmes offering additional social support were not associated with improvements in any perinatal outcomes.
Attendance at support groups is associated with improvements in symptoms, increases in participants' social networks, better quality of life, reduced hospitalisations, improved coping, greater acceptance of illness, improved medication adherence, lower levels of worry, greater satisfaction with one's own health and improved daily functioning [ 2].
Simultaneous adjustments for all psychosocial factors attenuated the associations, and in the fully adjusted model 3 no family-to-work conflicts and average social support remained associated with improvement in CMD.
The pilot study showed that a on-site education, supervision and technical support tailored to their needs was associated with improvements in village doctors use of EHR.
Change in fitness was associated with improvements in glycemic control, which provides support for interventions to improve fitness in adults with T2DM.
This may also be one explanation why support groups, even if valued by patients, are not associated with improvements in fatigue or physical functioning.
Among those participants who did not meet the recommended target of LTPA at baseline, high confiding/emotional support was not associated with improvement in activity levels.
Our strategy was associated with improvements in ratings of overall care, symptom control, and support.
Our study supports this, by demonstrating that nonoperative treatment (physiotherapy and a combined treatment) is associated with improvements in symptomatic knee OA.
Improvements in mental-set-suppression were associated with improvements in depression scores.
