The opinions of local community members, past and potential weight management or healthy lifestyle program participants and interested stakeholders, are thus likely to be useful in developing an understanding of what might and might not work for interventions targeting adolescents who are overweight.
The development work for this intervention included interviews with service users, doctors, nurses and social workers from both primary and secondary care, all with the aim of designing an intervention to improve cardiovascular screening rates for people with SMI [ 24].
I imagine some of it might work for trial interventions where you have a clear comparator - e.g. differentiate the intervention from usual practice (our 'intervention' is the work now and we do not really have a comparator as such).
The implications of this work for future clinical intervention for conditions ranging from trauma to neurodegenerative disease are profound.
It might be better to invest in outreach work, for example, as intervention before someone decides to return to university could be more effective than handing them a form to fill in once they have already applied.
Social workers work within the thresholds for intervention set out for them.
These include, inter alia, more leisure, increased earnings frommarket work and less need for intervention by parents.
Realist evaluation attempts to move beyond asking 'did the intervention work?' towards understanding 'how did the intervention work, for whom, and in which contexts' [ 26- 29]?
For intervention to work, Japan would need to recruit other central banks to the cause.
But for intervention to work, it should be large, internationally supported, backed by a government making credible policy changes and seen as likely to continue if necessary.
