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Undertaking a randomised controlled trial in the police setting: methodological and practical challenges [PDF]

open access: yesTrials, 2017
Background There has been an increased drive towards Evidence Based Policing in recent years. Unlike in other public sector services, such as health and education, randomised controlled trials in the police setting are relatively rare.
Arabella Scantlebury   +9 more
doaj   +4 more sources

Protocol for a Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial to Compare the “Taste & See” Programme—A Church-Based Programme to Develop a Healthy Relationship with Food—With a Wait-List Control [PDF]

open access: yesReligions, 2018
(1) Background: Obesity is strongly associated with poor mental-health. Spiritual and religious wellbeing is associated with improved mental well-being and reduced emotional eating.
Deborah Lycett
doaj   +4 more sources

Baseline testing in cluster randomised controlled trials: should this be done? [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Medical Research Methodology, 2019
Background Comparisons of baseline covariates in randomised controlled trials whilst often undertaken is regarded by many as an exercise in futility.
Jaime E. Bolzern   +2 more
doaj   +5 more sources

Community-led trials: Intervention co-design in a cluster randomised controlled trial [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2017
In conventional randomised controlled trials (RCTs), researchers design the interventions. In the Camino Verde trial, each intervention community designed its own programmes to prevent dengue.
Neil Andersson
doaj   +3 more sources

School-based group interpersonal therapy for adolescents with depression in Nepal: protocol for a phase III realist cluster-randomised controlled trial [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Psychiatry
Background Depression is a leading cause of disability among adolescents, with the burden disproportionately affecting low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) where access to mental health care is limited.
Kelly Rose-Clarke   +14 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Effects of ethics communication in health care: a cluster randomised controlled trial. [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Med Ethics
Abstract Background Studies show that healthcare professionals encounter ethically difficult situations in everyday clinical practice, and there is a need for interprofessional communication in organised forms. Ethics communication in groups (ECG), based on Habermas’s theory of communicative actions, is a form of ...
Margareta B, Ulf I, C FG.
europepmc   +3 more sources

Cultural respect in general practice: a cluster randomised controlled trial [PDF]

open access: yesMedical Journal of Australia, 2019
To the Editor: We refer to Liaw and colleagues’1 recently published study in the Journal. We acknowledge the positive intentions and rigour of this trial, and empathically concur with Thompson and Thackrah's2 comment that the results of this research “[do] not mean that efforts to improve cultural competence in health care settings should be abandoned”.
Hickey, Sophie, West, Roianne
  +11 more sources

The third Intensive Care Bundle with Blood Pressure Reduction in Acute Cerebral Haemorrhage Trial (INTERACT3): an international, stepped wedge cluster randomised controlled trial

open access: yesThe Lancet, 2023
Summary Background Early control of elevated blood pressure is the most promising treatment for acute intracerebral haemorrhage. We aimed to establish whether implementing a goal-directed care bundle incorporating protocols for early intensive blood ...
Lu Ma   +499 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of universal school-based mindfulness training compared with normal school provision in reducing risk of mental health problems and promoting well-being in adolescence: the MYRIAD cluster randomised controlled trial

open access: yesEvidence-Based Mental Health, 2022
Background Systematic reviews suggest school-based mindfulness training (SBMT) shows promise in promoting student mental health. Objective The My Resilience in Adolescence (MYRIAD) Trial evaluated the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of SBMT compared
W. Kuyken   +38 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Optimizing Therapy to Prevent Avoidable Hospital Admissions in Multimorbid Older Adults (OPERAM): cluster randomised controlled trial

open access: yesBritish medical journal, 2021
Objective To examine the effect of optimising drug treatment on drug related hospital admissions in older adults with multimorbidity and polypharmacy admitted to hospital. Design Cluster randomised controlled trial.
M. Blum   +44 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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