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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Cluster-randomised controlled trial"”.
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A Feasibility Study and a Pilot Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial of the PAX ‘Good Behaviour Game’ in Disadvantaged Schools
… in Northern Ireland. The study used a cluster randomised controlled trial design with a total of 15 schools (19 classes) randomised to intervention and control. The intervention group received training in the delivery of the PAX GBG and implemented the PAX GBG intervention for 12 weeks. …
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Process and outcome evaluation of a school-based HIV/AIDS prevention intervention in Cape Town high schools
… conducted over a period of 15 months, using a cluster randomised controlled trial design. A multi-stage sampling strategy was employed in selecting the participating schools. Twenty-six schools located in various parts of Cape Town participated in the research, 13 in the experimental group and …
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The effectiveness of using patient-reported outcome measures as quality improvement tools
… informed the focus of the primary research. A cluster randomised controlled trial (PROFILE) examined the impact of providing peer benchmarked PROMs feedback to consultant orthopaedic surgeons on improving outcomes for hip replacement surgery. Qualitative interviews with surgeons in the …
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Improving the care of infants with bronchiolitis : Using knowledge translation to close the evidence-practice gap
… mixed-methods approach was used, incorporating a cluster randomised controlled trial (RCT). Methods: Influencing factors (barriers and enablers) to variation in bronchiolitis management were identified through qualitative clinician (nurse and doctor) interviews. Bronchiolitis interventions were …
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Can Police Officers be Taught to be Fair? Lessons from a Randomised Controlled Field Trial on Training in Legitimacy for UK Counterterrorism Police Officers
… or control conditions within a large-scale cluster randomised controlled trial. The results suggest differing results in terms of both measures. We show that the training has no statistically significant effects on the degree to which officers retain the belief in their moral right to be …
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Non-communicable diseases in public sector primary care clinics in South Africa: multimorbidity, control, treatment, socioeconomic associations, and evaluation of educational outreach with a clinical management tool
… experience gained from a large implementation trial in two rural districts of the Western Cape, South Africa, to address the needs of patients with non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and depression, and to identify solutions to those needs. The Primary Care 101 intervention supports and expands …
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The effectiveness and implementation of the BokSmart Safe Six Injury prevention programme
… Screening Assessments). The final study was a cluster-randomised controlled trial (cRCT) over eight weeks, using six schools (n = 210 players) in the Western Cape to determine the effectiveness of the BokSmart Safe Six on injury risk profiles and IID. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: SA youth rugby …
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Bayesian Methods for the Design and Analysis of Cluster Randomised Controlled Trials
Cluster Randomised Controlled Trials involve randomising groups of participants, rather than the individual participants themselves, whilst the outcomes are measured on the participants. Whilst there are a number of practical and methodological advantages to such a design, there are also …
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The PASS study: performance assessment system for success In residential aged care
… in providing additional information. Design: A cluster randomised controlled trial, utilising longitudinal resident level data comparing the impact of Quality Improvement Activities including benchmarking with benchmarking alone on adverse event rates. The data for the two groups was applied to …
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Social determinants of comorbid depression among patients living with diabetes and/or HIV at primary healthcare settings in Western Cape Province of South Africa
… Baseline data collected from participants in a cluster randomised controlled trial, named Project MIND conducted in the Western Cape, was used in this analysis. This study applied a three-level multi-level logistic regression analysis. Random intercepts were added at the household and community …
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The Classroom Communication Resource (CCR) intervention to change grade 7 peers' attitudes towards children who stutter (CWS) in the Western Cape: a randomised controlled trial
… determine the effectiveness of the CCR through a cluster Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT). The secondary objective of this study was to determine the treatment effect of the Stuttering Resource Outcomes Measure (SROM) within the subscales of Positive Social Distance (PSD), Social Pressure (SP) …
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The burden of chronic respiratory disease in the Western Cape
… asthma and COPD cannot be cured, they can be controlled using appropriate medications. Poorly controlled CRD is associated with significantly poorer quality of life and mortality for patients, an increased burden on the healthcare system, and a negative economic impact due to loss of …
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Understanding the role of parents’ attitudes in children’s alcohol use: Evaluation of a universal parent-oriented alcohol consumption prevention programme
… 95% CI=0.93–2.94). When data from the Effekt trial was included, the change in pooled effect sizes was mostly marginal. The only exception involved the relationship between perceived parental attitudes and children’s alcohol use initiation, which became statistically significant (OR=1.55, 95% …
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Alcohol Use in Swedish Halls of Residence
… by the students themselves. The students were cluster randomised (with the residence hall as the cluster unit) into three groups. One group received a three hour cognitive-based harm reduction education (called BSTP), and one group received a three hour lecture by therapists trained in …
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Post-partum mental health and exercise in ethnically diverse ‘priority’ groups
… permutations. Study 2 was based on a cluster Randomised Controlled Trial design. Women 8-16 weeks post-partum at baseline (n=41) were allocated to one of four study groups: 1) Exercise [E] group, 2) Social support [SS] group, 3) Exercise + Social Support [Ess] group, and 4) a …
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PHYSICAL HEALTH CHECKS IN SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS: A PROGRAMME OF RESEARCH IN SECONDARY CARE
… of the use of the HIP in 108 patients. 4. A cluster RCT of the HIP Programme across four National Health Service [NHS] sites. 5. A process observation in a subsample of patient and nurse participants from the cluster randomised controlled trial. 6. Evaluation of evidence of impact from …
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A study of two models of primary mental health care provisions in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
… of both frameworks. Methods This research (“the trial”) set out to develop an approach, and then implement it, to compare the adapted WHO mhGAP framework with the existing specialist framework within primary mental health services in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, through a pragmatic, two-arm cluster …