Developing Methodology to Conduct a Randomised Controlled Trial
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Free breakfasts in schools: design and conduct of a cluster randomised controlled trial of the Primary School Free Breakfast Initiative in Wales [ISRCTN18336527]
... Methods/Design: This paper describes the research design of a large scale evaluation of the effectiveness of the Welsh Assembly Government's Primary School Free Breakfast Initiative. A cluster randomised ...
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Free breakfasts in schools: design and conduct of a cluster randomised controlled trial of the Primary School Free Breakfast Initiative in Wales [ISRCTN18336527]
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A randomised controlled trial of the efficacy of the ABCD Parenting Young Adolescents Program: rationale and methodology
... antisocial, conduct and delinquent behaviors [39], or to address specific risky behaviors, such as drug misuse ...aggression, conduct disorders and substance misuse ...
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Developing stepped care treatment for depression (STEPS): study protocol for a pilot randomised controlled trial
... powered trial of stepped care compared with intensive psychological therapy is required but a number of methodological and procedural uncertainties associated with the conduct of a large trial need ...
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Recruiting Care Homes to a Randomised Controlled Trial
... the conduct of trials, particularly those that are of any significant duration, as homes that were initially eligible may subsequently become ineligible in a short space of ...
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Recruiting care homes to a randomised controlled trial
... the conduct of trials, particularly those that are of any significant duration, as homes that were initially eligible may subsequently become ineligible in a short space of ...
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Recruiting care homes to a randomised controlled trial
... the conduct of trials, particularly those that are of any significant duration, as homes that were initially eligible may subsequently become ineligible in a short space of ...
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Moxibustion for cephalic version: a feasibility randomised controlled trial
... This study was conducted at the John Hunter Hospital, a public hospital in Australia. Human ethics approval was obtained from the Hunter New England Human Research Ethics Committee of Hunter New England Health (EC00403) ...
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Acupuncture for dry eye: a randomised controlled trial protocol
... For primary and secondary outcome measures, the mean differences from baseline values to the end of treatment will be compared using two-sample t-test or Wilcoxon rank sum test. If any imbalances in baseline character- ...
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A randomised controlled trial is not a pilot trial simply because it uses a surrogate endpoint
... the trial should only deserve the label ‘ pilot ’ if there were clear criteria to decide on whether to conduct a subse- quent trial using clinically meaningful outcomes, and a clear intention of ...
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Trial to Incentivise Adherence for Diabetes (TRIAD): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
... Participant recruitment, retention, withdrawal and discontinuation Participants will either be referred by a physician from the Family Physician Clinic and General Clinic at Gey- lang Polyclinic, or recruited through ...
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Methodology and recruitment for a randomised controlled trial to evaluate the safety of wahakurafor infant bedsharing
... Should the mother express interest, then the study re- searcher will either meet her at the clinic venue or visit her at home to explain the study in more depth, offering fur- ther time to discuss the study with the ...
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Post trial follow up methodology in large randomised controlled trials: a systematic review
... of trial- ists highlighted the limitations of this approach, noting it to be time-consuming and frustrating with increasing regulatory costs and country-specific ...
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Development of a randomised controlled trial of counselling for depression
... How, then, might an organisation like BACP raise the level of interest and engagement of its community in RCT studies? First, it may be that it needs to communicate to its members, as identified in this paper, that RCT ...
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Probiotics in the prevention of eczema: a randomised controlled trial.
... The hygiene hypothesis, based on the observation of increased atopy in smaller families, 9 postulates that reduced exposure to infections in early child- hood results in aberrant immunological responses to allergens. 10 ...
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The challenges faced in the design, conduct and analysis of surgical randomised controlled trials
... explanatory trial seeks to assess whether the intervention can work under favourable ...pragmatic trial seeks to inform clinical decision making by evaluating an intervention in a realistic clinical ...a ...
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Structure formats of randomised controlled trial abstracts: a cross-sectional analysis of their current usage and association with methodology reporting
... the methodology reporting quality of 176 IMRaD (Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion) and 165 HS (Highly Structured) RCT abstracts sampled from 33 of the 50 selected journals, using a 9-item checklist ...
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Testing the activitystat hypothesis: a randomised controlled trial protocol
... Ideally, this would include the gold standard methodology for measuring total energy expenditure in humans, doubly labeled water [13]. Given that the time period over which a supposed activitystat operates is ...
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A Randomised Controlled Trial
... © 2012 Gabi Becker, Volker Happel, Joachim Körkel & Gero Lipsmeier. KISS – Implementation and Evaluation in Frankfurt.[r] ...
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Double Blind, Randomised Controlled Trial
... Patients with immune suppression on day 1 after esophageal or pancreatic resection (pod1) were included in this prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind, double dummy trial. Immune ...
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