scholarly journals A randomized controlled trial of event-specific prevention strategies for reducing problematic drinking associated with 21st birthday celebrations.

2012 ◽  
Vol 80 (5) ◽  
pp. 850-862 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clayton Neighbors ◽  
Christine M. Lee ◽  
David C. Atkins ◽  
Melissa A. Lewis ◽  
Debra Kaysen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Randomized Controlled Trial ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Prevention Strategies ◽  
Problematic Drinking ◽  
Randomized Controlled

scholarly journals Effect of Positive Events Recording Based on Positive Psychology on Healthy Behaviours and Readmission Rate of Patients After PCI: A Study Protocol for a Prospective, Randomized Controlled Trial

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yao yao Hu ◽  
Xin Jiang ◽  
Fang ying Mao ◽  
Jing Zhang ◽  
Lin Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Randomized Controlled Trial ◽  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Readmission Rate ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Intervention Group ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Prevention Strategies ◽  
Positive Events ◽  
Randomized Controlled ◽  
New Ideas

Abstract Background: Unhealthy behaviours of coronary heart disease (CHD) patients are closely related to the occurrence of major heart events, which increases the readmission rate and brings heavy economic burden to families and society. Therefore, it is necessary for health care workers to take active preventive and therapeutic measures to keep or establish healthy behaviours of patients. Positive psychological intervention has been proved to be effective, but it has not been reported in the field of CHD in China. The purpose of this study is to explore the effects of positive events recording based on positive psychology on the healthy behaviours, readmission rate and anxiety of patients with CHD, in order to provide new ideas for the development of secondary prevention strategies for CHD.Methods: This is a prospective, single-center, randomized controlled trial (RCT). The subjects will be enrolled from the Department of Cardiology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University. There are 80 cases in total, according to the random number table, the subjects are randomly divided into the intervention group (n=40) and the control group (n=40). The patients in the intervention group will receive the intervention of recording positive events once a week for 3 months, while the patients in the control group receive conventional nursing, and each group will be followed up for 6 months. The primary outcomes will include healthy behaviours, readmission rate and anxiety, the secondary outcomes will include psychological capital, subjective well-being and corresponding clinical laboratory indicators. The protocol was approved by the Medical Ethics Committee of Soochow University (approval No. SUDA20200604H01) and is performed in strict accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki formulated by the World Medical Association. All participants provide written informed consent.Discussion: This study will verify whether positive events recording based on positive psychology can make patients maintain healthy behaviours, reduce readmission rate and improve anxiety after PCI. Then, this study will provide new ideas and references for the development of secondary prevention strategies for patients with CHD. Trial registration: Chinese Clinical Trials Registry, 2000034538. Registered on 10 July 2020.

A Randomized Controlled Trial of Fall Prevention Strategies in Old Peoples’ Homes

Gerontology ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marion E.T. McMurdo ◽  
Angela M. Millar ◽  
Fergus Daly
Keyword(s):  
Randomized Controlled Trial ◽  
Fall Prevention ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Prevention Strategies ◽  
Randomized Controlled

Treatment Fidelity Procedures for an Aphasia Intervention Within a Randomized Controlled Trial: Design, Feasibility, and Results

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (1S) ◽  
pp. 412-424
Author(s):  
Elissa L. Conlon ◽  
Emily J. Braun ◽  
Edna M. Babbitt ◽  
Leora R. Cherney
Keyword(s):  
Randomized Controlled Trial ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Treatment Protocol ◽  
Treatment Fidelity ◽  
Protocol Adherence ◽  
Study Condition ◽  
Randomized Controlled ◽  
Aphasia Therapy ◽  
Percent Accuracy ◽  
Over Time

Purpose This study reports on the treatment fidelity procedures implemented during a 5-year randomized controlled trial comparing intensive and distributed comprehensive aphasia therapy. Specifically, the results of 1 treatment, verb network strengthening treatment (VNeST), are examined. Method Eight participants were recruited for each of 7 consecutive cohorts for a total of 56 participants. Participants completed 60 hr of aphasia therapy, including 15 hr of VNeST. Two experienced speech-language pathologists delivered the treatment. To promote treatment fidelity, the study team developed a detailed manual of procedures and fidelity checklists, completed role plays to standardize treatment administration, and video-recorded all treatment sessions for review. To assess protocol adherence during treatment delivery, trained research assistants not involved in the treatment reviewed video recordings of a subset of randomly selected VNeST treatment sessions and completed the fidelity checklists. This process was completed for 32 participants representing 2 early cohorts and 2 later cohorts, which allowed for measurement of protocol adherence over time. Percent accuracy of protocol adherence was calculated across clinicians, cohorts, and study condition (intensive vs. distributed therapy). Results The fidelity procedures were sufficient to promote and verify a high level of adherence to the treatment protocol across clinicians, cohorts, and study condition. Conclusion Treatment fidelity strategies and monitoring are feasible when incorporated into the study design. Treatment fidelity monitoring should be completed at regular intervals during the course of a study to ensure that high levels of protocol adherence are maintained over time and across conditions.

Phonomotor Versus Semantic Feature Analysis Treatment for Anomia in 58 Persons With Aphasia: A Randomized Controlled Trial

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (12) ◽  
pp. 4464-4482 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane L. Kendall ◽  
Megan Oelke Moldestad ◽  
Wesley Allen ◽  
Janaki Torrence ◽  
Stephen E. Nadeau
Keyword(s):  
Randomized Controlled Trial ◽  
Response Latency ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Semantic Knowledge ◽  
Semantic Feature ◽  
Feature Analysis ◽  
Group Differences ◽  
Randomized Controlled ◽  
Confrontation Naming ◽  
Semantic Feature Analysis

Purpose The ultimate goal of anomia treatment should be to achieve gains in exemplars trained in the therapy session, as well as generalization to untrained exemplars and contexts. The purpose of this study was to test the efficacy of phonomotor treatment, a treatment focusing on enhancement of phonological sequence knowledge, against semantic feature analysis (SFA), a lexical-semantic therapy that focuses on enhancement of semantic knowledge and is well known and commonly used to treat anomia in aphasia. Method In a between-groups randomized controlled trial, 58 persons with aphasia characterized by anomia and phonological dysfunction were randomized to receive 56–60 hr of intensively delivered treatment over 6 weeks with testing pretreatment, posttreatment, and 3 months posttreatment termination. Results There was no significant between-groups difference on the primary outcome measure (untrained nouns phonologically and semantically unrelated to each treatment) at 3 months posttreatment. Significant within-group immediately posttreatment acquisition effects for confrontation naming and response latency were observed for both groups. Treatment-specific generalization effects for confrontation naming were observed for both groups immediately and 3 months posttreatment; a significant decrease in response latency was observed at both time points for the SFA group only. Finally, significant within-group differences on the Comprehensive Aphasia Test–Disability Questionnaire ( Swinburn, Porter, & Howard, 2004 ) were observed both immediately and 3 months posttreatment for the SFA group, and significant within-group differences on the Functional Outcome Questionnaire ( Glueckauf et al., 2003 ) were found for both treatment groups 3 months posttreatment. Discussion Our results are consistent with those of prior studies that have shown that SFA treatment and phonomotor treatment generalize to untrained words that share features (semantic or phonological sequence, respectively) with the training set. However, they show that there is no significant generalization to untrained words that do not share semantic features or phonological sequence features.

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