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Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy in COPD: a cluster randomised controlled trial [PDF]

European Respiratory Journal, 2018
A considerable proportion of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) entering pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) report psychological distress, which is often accompanied by poor physical health status. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) has been shown to improve psychological and physical outcomes in other chronic diseases.
Farver-Vestergaard, Ingeborg, O'Toole, Mia S, O'Connor, Maja, Løkke, Anders, Bendstrup, Elisabeth, Basdeo, Sharee A, Cox, Donal J, Dunne, Pádraic J, Ruggeri, Kai, Early, Frances, Zachariae, Robert   +10 more
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Registry randomised trials: a methodological perspective

BMJ Open, 2023
Registry randomised clinical trials (RRCTs) have the potential to provide pragmatic answers to important clinical questions. RRCTs can be embedded into large population-based registries or smaller single site registries to provide timely answers at a ...
Christopher M Reid, Susannah Ahern, Ian Harris, Steven Y C Tong, Angela L Brennan, Dorota A Doherty, Carol Hodgson, Stephen McDonald, Jennifer Reilly, Jane Shrapnel, Charmaine S Tam, Leonie Wilcox, Anitha Balagurunathan, Belinda E Butcher   +13 more
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Enhancing Recruitment Using Teleconference and Commitment Contract (ERUTECC): study protocol for a randomised, stepped-wedge cluster trial within the EFFECTS trial

Trials, 2018
Background Many randomised controlled trials (RCTs) fail to meet their recruitment goals in time. Trialists are advised to include study recruitment strategies within their trials. EFFECTS is a Swedish, academic-led RCT of fluoxetine for stroke recovery.
Erik Lundström, Eva Isaksson, Per Wester, Ann-Charlotte Laska, Per Näsman   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Data for Thinking Healthy Programme Pakistan trial (THPP-Pakistan) [PDF]

, 2018
An anonymised dataset of 570 women (one row per woman) who gave informed consent to participate in a cluster randomised, parallel, superiority, controlled trial in Rawalpindi, Pakistan in 2014-2017. The intervention was an adapted version of the Thinking
Ahmad, Ikhlaq, Fuhr, Daniela, Patel, Vikram, Rahman, Atif, Sikander, Siham, Vanobberghen, Fiona, Weiss, Helen, Zaidi, Ahmed   +7 more
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Lessons learnt during a complex, multicentre cluster randomised controlled trial: the ProAct65+ trial [PDF]

Trials, 2013
Failure to recruit to target or schedule is common in randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Innovative interventions are not always fully developed before being tested, and maintenance of fidelity to the intervention during trials can be problematic.
Stevens, Zoe, Carpenter, Hannah, Gawler, Sheena, Belcher, Carolyn, Haworth, Deborah, Kendrick, Denise, Morris, Richard, Masud, Tahir, Skelton, Dawn A, Iliffe, Steve   +9 more
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The reimagination of school-based physical activity research in the COVID-19 era.

PLoS Medicine, 2020
Deirdre Harrington and Michelle O'Reilly discuss the article "Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the GoActive intervention to increase physical activity among UK adolescents: A cluster randomised controlled trial" by Kirsten Corder and colleagues.
Deirdre M Harrington, Michelle O'Reilly
doaj   +1 more source

Feasibility of testing the effectiveness of a theory-informed intervention to reduce imaging for low back pain: a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial

Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 2022
Background General medical practitioner (GP) recruitment and subsequent data collection in clinical practice are challenging and may limit successful completion of a large-scale trial.
Hazel J. Jenkins, Simon D. French, Anika Young, Niamh A. Moloney, Chris G. Maher, John S. Magnussen, Blake F. Dear, Mark J. Hancock   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Treating and Preventing Influenza in Aged Care Facilities: A Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial [PDF]

, 2012
PMCID: PMC3474842This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are ...
Alexander E. Rosewell, Anna S. Dean, C. Raina MacIntyre, Cameron R. M. Moffatt, Clayton K. Chiu, D. William Cameron, David J. Philp, Dominic E. Dwyer, Jiehui K. Yin, Leon G. Heron, Richard I. Lindley, Robert Booy, Timothy Dobbins, Zhanhai Gao   +13 more
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Preventing injuries in children: cluster randomised controlled trial in primary care [PDF]

BMJ, 1999
To assess the effectiveness of safety advice at child health surveillance consultations, provision of low cost safety equipment to families receiving means tested state benefits, home safety checks, and first aid training on frequency and severity of unintentional injuries in children at home.Cluster randomised controlled trial.36 general practices in ...
D, Kendrick, P, Marsh, K, Fielding, P, Miller   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Update to a protocol for a feasibility cluster randomised controlled trial of a peer-led school-based intervention to increase the physical activity of adolescent girls (PLAN-A) [PDF]

, 2016
BACKGROUND: Physical activity levels are low amongst adolescent girls, and this population faces specific barriers to being active. Peer influences on health behaviours are important in adolescence, and peer-led interventions might hold promise to change
Banfield, Kate, Blair, Pete, Campbell, Rona, Edwards, Mark, Garfield, Kirsty, Hollingworth, William, Jago, Russ, Kadir, Bryar, Kipping, Ruth, Lyons, Ronan, Sebire, Simon   +10 more
core   +1 more source