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... ANCOVA: Analysis of covariance; ANOVA: Analysis of variance; AUDIT-C: Alcohol use disorders identification test, consumption; BAI: Beck anxiety inventory; BSQ: Body sensations questionnaire; CBT: Cognitive ... See full document

... reporting trials, it is important to follow both the relevant Con- solidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) [52] and the Template for Intervention Description and Repli- cation (TIDieR) ...that ... See full document

... reporting trials, it is important to follow both the relevant Con- solidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) [52] and the Template for Intervention Description and Repli- cation (TIDieR) ...that ... See full document

... in trials of psychological treatment, bias arose mainly from incomplete report- ing of outcomes, dropping noncompleters from outcome analysis, and uncertainty about whether the intended treatment had been ... See full document

... behavioural interventions that include swallowing exercises to help improve swallowing ...Such interventions are complex; consisting of multiple components that may influence ...These interventions ... See full document

... cessation interventions supported by treatment ...randomized trials that included 98,530 participants published from January 1990 through April ...Internet interventions outperformed assessment-only/ ... See full document

... clustering, analysis can be performed at the cluster level or at the individual ...Cluster-level analysis re- duces observations within a cluster to an aggregate value and then analyzes each independent ... See full document

... data; interventions with individual drugs and Wenxin keli doses of 9 g, three times/day; any particular course of treatment; publications in Chinese and ... See full document

... care interventions shows consider- able heterogeneity in outcome measures used [35], and research has also highlighted the problem of selective and incomplete reporting [36] in Cochrane ...research trials ... See full document

... by design but by ...multiple trials, the distribution of p values across multiple trials from a group of clustered variables should still be approximately ... See full document

... PA interventions with children have been evaluated in previous studies by conducting a systematic ...for review and results suggest that naturally-occurring population-based PA interventions ... See full document

... based interventions on “ taking ” and “ timing ” of medica- tion adherence as statistically signi fi ...The interventions involving computerized systems evaluated process care outcomes such as IRB and IRK, ... See full document

... this systematic review is to summarize the evidence from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to compare the effects of different ICT-based interventions to support postpartum women to achieve ... See full document

... Conduct and reporting of acceptability, attitudes, beliefs and experiences of pregnant women in randomised trials on diet and lifestyle interventions A systematic review Accepted Manuscript Title Cond[.] ... See full document

... the interventions, this study suggests that pain- free exercises are better than exercises that stretch beyond the pain threshold, and that pushing strenuous exercise may actually worsen the long-term ... See full document

... The database search identified 3691 citations. Eighteen papers, representing seventeen studies were included (Figure 1). One paper [34] reported additional analyses from the study reported by Day et al. [32]. Two studies ... See full document

... Essentials of Teamcare in Randomized Controlled Trials of Multidisciplinary or Interdisciplinary Interventions in Somatic Care: A Systematic Review Bengt Fridlund1,2*, Ewa K.. Andersson1[r] ... See full document

... control trials (RCTs) focusing on evidence-based practice ...by systematic reviews of ...nurses’ interventions by means of nurse-led RCTs in somatic care focusing on the stated context, goals, ... See full document

... the trials in one disease type were generally small and those in another were large, then this may lead to publication bias across in- ...multiple-indication review is built up from data from existing ... See full document

... Effect sizes were calculated for each antipsychotic medication. The effect size is a measure of the efficacy of an intervention. This allows easy comparison of studies using disparate methodology and efficacy measures. ... See full document