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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"social interventions"”.
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Journey with Autism: Successful Educational and Social Interventions from a Single Case Study
… of those connected to the case, whether the interventions engaged in this case were effective and to what extent the educational and social interventions practiced in this specific case were responsible for enabling Carter to reach the place where the diagnosticians felt that he no longer met …
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Central and Secondary Struggles in Social Interventions: The Impact of Group Relations Learning on Real Life Practices
… therapy and analysis was used to look at whether interventions were therapeutic (i.e., adjusting to circumstances) or analytic (i.e., looking at social structure). The participants reported that the group relations learning was transformational and led to more effective social interaction in their …
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Engaging men in gender equality. How social interventions for disadvantaged men in the Netherlands impact on gender+ equality.
Contains fulltext : 184018.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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A prospective study to assess the value of liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry in the management of paediatric poisoning at Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
… investigations, management, outcome and social interventions. Results 152 children, with median age of 39 (IQR 25 -61) months were enrolled of which 128 (84%) were poisoning cases. Of the 128 poisoning cases, 88 (69%) presented with a history of ingesting a known substance, 16(12%) an …
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Developing best available evidence to inform healthy public policy
… There are many examples of well-intended interventions which did not produce the expected benefits, and in some cases had adverse effects. Compared to many clinical interventions, social interventions are characteristically difficult to control, and likely to be more susceptible to the …
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Educating All Students? Successfully Supporting Students with Emotional Disabilities
… Discussion of placement, academic and social interventions, and the nature of special education proved focal. My analysis suggests that there needs to be a blend of academic supports and behavior modifications in place for students with ED for them to be successful. The most successful …
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Assessment of the impact of awareness programs on the transmission dynamics of COVID-19
… characteristics of the virus in response to social interventions. This is important to evaluate the overall impact of such programs in the management of the disease. We seek to develop a mathematical model that characterizes the transmission dynamics of COVID-19. The model analyzes the impact …
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Optimization of influenza antiviral response in Texas
… influenza pandemics with antiviral, vaccine, and social interventions. Mathematical models can guide policies to saves lives. In this thesis, we create an optimization model, implemented in the online tool Texas Antiviral Release Scheduling (TAVRS) that provides the optimal geo-temporal antiviral …
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Unlocking energy efficiency in office districts : a stakeholder-based approach
… and have different interests. But they all face social barriers such as information feedback, process assistance, and the need for social endorsement. Smart Energy Now@, a new advanced metering and community-based social marketing pilot in Charlotte NC, is one of the first programs to focus …
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Common Time: Music, Empathy, and a Politics of Care
… on the development of individuals’ empathy or social bonds. A commensurate level of consideration tends not to be given to the socio-economic, political, and institutional forces and processes that shape such development and to how the arts might help build capacities to manage the impact of …
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A Qualitative Investigation of the Strategies used by a Sample of Native American Older Adults to Cope with Race-Related Stressors
… that appropriate and effective clinical and social interventions for this population should take into account the values, attitudes and customs of a Native American worldview that recognizes the central importance of belongingness/interconnectedness. However given that this study did not …
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A Qualitative Investigation of the Strategies used by a Sample of Native American Older Adults to Cope with Race-Related Stressors
… that appropriate and effective clinical and social interventions for this population should take into account the values, attitudes and customs of a Native American worldview that recognizes the central importance of belongingness/interconnectedness. However given that this study did not …
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Effects of Misassignment on Bias in the Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity
<p>The question of whether social interventions are effective has become an ever more important concern as programs are asked to justify their funding and theories of action. Although the randomized control trial (RCT) is a rigorous choice of design with regards to establishing causality, there are …
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Beyond the Caring State: Civic Ideals and the Architecture of Human Development
… critique with insights drawn from pragmatist social psychology. Recasting Althusser's concept of interpellation as relational and interactive, I examine how interpellative networks are stabilized in material culture and social praxis, particularly with reference to the fiction of wardship: a …
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A Realist Review and Evaluation of Spark: An Online, Arts in Health Intervention for Older People Experiencing Social Isolation and Loneliness in Wales
… concern which affects all aspects of bio-psychosocial wellness. For the older population, finding preventative, community-based interventions that can reduce social isolation and loneliness is particularly important because of the potential to reduce their need to access secondary health and …
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A retrospective audit comparing state patients with schizophrenia and bipolar mood disorder who have committed violent crime admitted to the male forensic unit at Valkenberg Hospital
… programs for personality disordered patients and social interventions in patients with poor social support would contribute to improving the quality of the rehabilitation programs currently used. The commonalities found in the 2 groups suggest that a common approach to rehabilitation would be …
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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on EMS practitioners in the Western Cape: strategies to enhance wellness
This research study aimed to explore the psycho-social impact of stress endured by frontline emergency medical services providers during COVID-19 pandemic and to develop a framework for enhancing their wellness during healthcare crises of the same or similar nature. Prior to the pandemic, emergency …
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Filling the gap: development and qualitative process evaluation of a task sharing psycho-social counselling intervention for perinatal depression in Khayelitsha, South Africa
… mental health professionals. New psychological interventions delivered by non-specialists are needed to fill the treatment gap. Task sharing of psycho-social interventions for perinatal depression has been shown to be feasible, acceptable and effective in low and middle-income countries. …
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A complex, high-performance agent-based model used to explore tuberculosis and COVID-19 case-finding interventions
… epidemiological control. Early diagnosis interventions include contact tracing and isolation, testing of asymptomatic people thought to be at high risk of infection, and in the case of TB, screening using chest X-rays. The impact of several such early diagnosis interventions on case …
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Enhanced Recovery Pathway for Colorectal Surgery Improves Outcomes in Private and Safety-Net Settings
… the under and uninsured who may have different social determinants of health. This study aims to compare the effect of an ERP on LOS and readmission for colorectal surgery across the private and safety-net settings in a large urban academic medical center. METHODS: A multidisciplinary panel of …
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