This was done with a view of encouraging other stakeholders to take up these interventions and ensure continuity.
Studies are needed to better understand what makes a community "ready" or "activated" for scale-up, why communities sometimes fail to take up proven interventions, and how such "demand side" barriers can be overcome.
Individuals who would otherwise be eligible for the study who died before their next scheduled appointment were not included in the analysis as they would have had no opportunity to take up the intervention.
Only a third of the families with a child identified as eligible chose to take up the intervention; again, it seems unlikely that those who were not recruited to the trial would have fared better, and this would be a problem at the public health level only had the intervention been effective.
However, whilst we have assumed that as both groups were identified from geographically adjacent populations and both identified as suitable for community-based pulmonary rehabilitation, they represent similar populations, there is always the potential for patients included in research studies being selected to be different from the patients that take up the intervention in clinical practice.
Taking up Warren's intervention, this course will explore African American literature from its earliest manifestations in the spirituals and slave narratives to texts composed at the height of desegregation and decolonization struggles at mid-century and beyond.
Furthermore, they will be asked to encourage the athlete to take up their allocated intervention program after treatment and/or rehabilitation has ceased.
CM has been argued to be valuable in recruiting men to take up circumcision in biomedical interventions [ 5, 6].
Kesetebirhan says it is the government's policy to ensure women are not coerced into taking up health interventions.
Not surprisingly, interventions with high levels of validity were expected to work, and be relevant to specific contexts, and were more likely to be taken up than interventions that were perceived to be lacking in internal or external validity.
