Prehabilitation – A Pre-Pilot Parallel Group Controlled Study
Prehabilitation for men undergoing radical prostatectomy: a multi-centre, pilot randomized controlled trial
... this study is to determine the feasibility of conducting a full-scale randomized controlled trial of PREHAB versus UC and to determine estimates of effect size to inform sample size for subsequent trials in ...
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Guideline implementation in the Canadian chiropractic setting: a pilot cluster randomized controlled trial and parallel study
... this pilot study, it is expected that the number of participants for a large trial would prove difficult to re- ...intervention group who had completed the webinars and e-learning modules indicated ...
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Acupuncture for pain and osteoarthritis of the knee: a pilot study for an open parallel arm randomised controlled trial
... of study The attrition rate was higher at 12 months than would be acceptable in a full scale trial, the reason being that no fol- low-up requests were made to those who did not respond to the initial ...this ...
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Pre consultation educational group intervention to improve shared decision making in postmastectomy breast reconstruction: study protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial
... educational group intervention content and delivery: A subgroup of participants allo- cated to both the experimental and usual care groups will be asked to participate in a brief qualitative tele- phone ...each ...
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Efficacy of moxibustion for pre or stage I hypertension: study protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial
... the group as the fixed factor, and the hypertension stage as the stratified vari- ...each group will be analyzed using a paired t-test or a Wilcoxon signed rank test, and the 95% confidence interval will be ...
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Combining behavioural activation with physical activity promotion for adults with depression: findings of a parallel group pilot randomised controlled trial (BAcPAc)
... seeing study psychological wellbeing practitioners An unprecedented reduction in PWP numbers at site 2 during the study that were due to sickness and staff leav- ing resulted in service administrators’ ...
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Efficacy and safety of Cannabidiol and Tetrahydrocannabivarin on glycemic and lipid parameters in patients with Type 2 diabetes: a randomized, double blind, placebo controlled, parallel group pilot study
... placebo-controlled study, 62 subjects with non-insulin treated type 2 diabetes were randomised to five treatment arms; CBD (100 mg twice daily), THCV (5 mg twice daily), 1:1 ratio of CBD and THCV (5 mg:5 ...
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Community-based prehabilitation program: a pilot study exploring the impact of exercise and education programs on functional mobility pre-surgery and on length of stay post-total joint arthroplasty
... current study did not improve by the end of the prehabilitation program compared to the performance ...the prehabilitation group in comparison to the control ...the prehabilitation ...
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Testing effectiveness of the revised Cape Town modified early warning and SBAR systems: a pilot pragmatic parallel group randomised controlled trial
... On these occasions, written and verbal explanations of the study were given to eligible patients in any of three languages (English, Afrikaans and isiXhosa). For cultural reasons, some patients requested time for ...
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The effect of foot massage on long-term care staff working with older people with dementia: a pilot, parallel group, randomized controlled trial
... the study period, particularly after experiencing the foot massage intervention, was ...this study, and in previous work undertaken by members of the research team [22], have been good to excellent, thus ...
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Arthritis prevention in the pre-clinical phase of RA with abatacept (the APIPPRA study): a multi-centre, randomised, double-blind, parallel-group, placebo-controlled clinical trial protocol
... ing study subjects to placebo, or to IMP that has proven inadequate to suppress signs and symptoms, at a time when standard therapy for new-onset RA would be deemed appropriate by the supervising ...the ...
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Arthritis prevention in the pre clinical phase of RA with abatacept (the APIPPRA study): a multi centre, randomised, double blind, parallel group, placebo controlled clinical trial protocol
... ing study subjects to placebo, or to IMP that has proven inadequate to suppress signs and symptoms, at a time when standard therapy for new-onset RA would be deemed appropriate by the supervising ...the ...
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Anti inflammatory and immune regulatory effects of acupuncture after craniotomy: study protocol for a parallel group randomized controlled trial
... The differences in pre and postoperative blood test re- sults between the two groups will be compared using a generalized linear mixed model (GLMM). To compare events due to infections such as pneumonia, urinary ...
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Cardiac safety of indacaterol in healthy subjects: a randomized, multidose, placebo- and positive-controlled, parallel-group thorough QT study
... current study no change from baseline in QTcF interval of >60 ms was observed with any of the indacaterol doses, and nor were any QTcF interval values >480 ms ...a pre- vious study in patients with ...
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Effectiveness of Group Behavioural Activation for Depression: A Pilot Study.
... BAG was an acceptable treatment generating a low dropout rate (6.9%). Significant pre-post differences were found across all measures. There was a moderate to large depression effect size (d + = 0.74), and 19.7% ...
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Peer support in type 2 diabetes: a randomised controlled trial in primary care with parallel economic and qualitative analyses: pilot study and protocol
... the study reflect this underlying theoret- ical ...The group meeting components of the intervention in this study are designed to build on the lay element of peer sup- port through the encouragement ...
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“Not just another walking program”: Everyday Activity Supports You (EASY) model—a randomized pilot study for a parallel randomized controlled trial
... a pilot study, no stratification was ...the study coordinator entered participant identification numbers into the web service to allocate ...on study identification number, group ...
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Effects of a parallel-arm randomized controlled weight loss pilot study on biological and psychosocial parameters of overweight and obese breast cancer survivors
... our study include the random- ized controlled study design, the inclusion of a limited contact follow-up period, the comprehensive array of variables measured, particularly F2-isoprostanes, which ...
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Evaluation of wet cupping therapy for persistent non specific low back pain: a randomised, waiting list controlled, open label, parallel group pilot trial
... The result of a sample size calculation with the primary outcome (NRS changes) of this study, adopting 0.05 for a , 0.2 for b and 20% for drop-out rate, suggested that 115 participants in each group are an ...
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Health trainer-led motivational intervention plus usual care for people under community supervision compared with usual care alone: a study protocol for a parallel-group pilot randomised controlled trial (STRENGTHEN).
... In parallel work, a screening and brief interven- tion for reducing alcohol use in individuals in the crim- inal justice settings 12–14 indicated no additional benefit in comparison with feedback on screening and ...
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