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Shared decision-making in antihypertensive therapy: a cluster randomised controlled trial [PDF]

BMC Family Practice, 2013
Hypertension is one of the key factors causing cardiovascular diseases. A substantial proportion of treated hypertensive patients do not reach recommended target blood pressure values. Shared decision making (SDM) is to enhance the active role of patients.
Tinsel, Iris, Buchholz, Anika, Vach, Werner, Siegel, Achim, Dürk, Thorsten, Buchholz, Angela, Niebling, Wilhelm, Fischer, Karl-Georg   +7 more
openaire   +3 more sources

“Risk Watch”: Cluster randomised controlled trial evaluating an injury prevention program [PDF]

Injury Prevention, 2007
Objective: to evaluate the effectiveness of a school-based injury prevention program. Design: Cluster randomised controlled trial. Setting: 20 primary schools in Nottingham, UK. Participants: 459 children aged 7 to 10 years.
Denise, Kendrick, Lindsay, Groom, Jane, Stewart, Michael, Watson, Caroline, Mulvaney, Rebecca, Casterton   +5 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Training health visitors in cognitive behavioural and person-centred approaches for depression in postnatal women as part of a cluster randomised trial and economic evaluation in primary care: the PoNDER trial [PDF]

, 2011
Aim: This paper aims to describe the training preparation for health visitors who took part in the intervention arm of a cluster randomised controlled trial and economic evaluation of training for health visitors – the POstNatal Depression Economic ...
Barkham, M., Curran, J., Morrell, C.J., Ricketts, T., Tudor, K., Williams, C.   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Delivering the Thinking Healthy Programme for perinatal depression through volunteer peers: a cluster randomised controlled trial in Pakistan.

Lancet psychiatry, 2019
BACKGROUND The Thinking Healthy Programme (THP), which is endorsed by WHO, is an evidence-based intervention for perinatal depression. We adapted THP for delivery by volunteer peers (laywomen from the community) to address the human resource needs in ...
S. Sikander, Ikhlaq Ahmad, N. Atif, A. Zaidi, Fiona Vanobberghen, H. Weiss, A. Nisar, H. Tabana, Qurat Ul Ain, Amina Bibi, Samina Bilal, Tayyiba Bibi, Rakshanda Liaqat, M. Sharif, S. Zulfiqar, D. Fuhr, L. Price, V. Patel, A. Rahman   +18 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Use of an electronic decision support tool to reduce polypharmacy in elderly people with chronic diseases: cluster randomised controlled trial

British medical journal, 2020
Objective To evaluate the effects of a computerised decision support tool for comprehensive drug review in elderly people with polypharmacy. Design Pragmatic, multicentre, cluster randomised controlled trial.
Anja Rieckert, D. Reeves, A. Altiner, E. Drewelow, A. Esmail, M. Flamm, M. Hann, T. Johansson, R. Klaassen-Mielke, I. Kunnamo, Christin Löffler, G. Piccoliori, C. Sommerauer, U. Trampisch, Anna Vögele, A. Woodham, A. Sönnichsen   +16 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A cluster randomised controlled trial of an occupational therapy intervention for residents with stroke living in UK care homes (OTCH): study protocol

BMC Neurology, 2012
Background The occupational therapy (OT) in care homes study (OTCH) aims to investigate the effect of a targeted course of individual OT (with task training, provision of adaptive equipment, minor environmental adaptations and staff education) for stroke
Sackley Cath M, Burton Chris R, Herron-Marx Sandy, Lett Karen, Mant Jonathan, Roalfe Andrea K, Sharp Leslie J, Sheehan Bart, Stant Katie E, Walker Marion F, Watkins Caroline L, Wheatley Keith, Williams Jane, Yao Guiqing L, Feltham Max G   +14 more
doaj   +1 more source

Protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial of LPG cookstoves compared to usual cooking practices to reduce perinatal mortality and morbidity in rural Bangladesh called Poriborton: the CHANge trial

Trials, 2022
Background Household air pollution is a leading health risk for global morbidity and mortality and a major health risk in South Asia. However, there are no prospective investigations of the impact of household air pollution on perinatal morbidity and ...
Camille Raynes-Greenow, Ashraful Alam, Sk Masum Billah, Sajia Islam, Kingsley Agho, S. M. Rokonuzzaman, Jonathan Thornburg, Shams El Arifeen, Atique Iqbal Chowdhury, The Poriborton Trial Team, Michael J. Dibley   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

The combined diabetes and renal control trial (C-DIRECT) - a feasibility randomised controlled trial to evaluate outcomes in multi-morbid patients with diabetes and on dialysis using a mixed methods approach [PDF]

, 2019
Background: This cluster randomised controlled trial set out to investigate the feasibility and acceptability of the “Combined Diabetes and Renal Control Trial” (C-DIRECT) intervention, a nurse-led intervention based on motivational interviewing and self-
AM Jacobson, AS Zigmond, AY Lai, C. G. Chua, CA Eigenmann, CSY Goh, DJ Toobert, E Salsberg, E. Y. H. Khoo, EA Bayliss, EA Beverly, EA Kerr, F Willingham, GW Welch, H Knight, H Vlaminck, I Bjelland, IM Stratton, IR White, JY Chen, K Griva, K. Griva, KR Lorig, L Bramley, M Anees, M. Nandakumar, M. Rajeswari, MA Powers, ME Charlson, MF Huang, MJ Davies, P Craig, R Schwarzer, RD Hays, RH Osborne, RK Yoong, S Newman, S. P. Newman, SL Norris, T Washington, V Braun, V. Y. W. Lee, WH Polonsky, Y-Q Huang, Y. T. D. Choong, YH Tang, Z. S. Goh   +46 more
core   +1 more source

Self help smoking cessation in pregnancy: cluster randomised controlled trial

BMJ, 2002
To evaluate the effectiveness of a self help approach to smoking cessation in pregnancy.Pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial with community midwife as the unit of randomisation.Three NHS hospital trusts in England.1527 women who smoked at the start of pregnancy.A series of five self help booklets comprising a step by step programme to increase
Moore, LAR, Campbell, R, Whelan, A, Mills, N, Lupton, P, Misselbrook, E, Frolich, J   +6 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Sustainable waiting time reductions after introducing the STAT model for access and triage: 12-month follow up of a stepped wedge cluster randomised controlled trial

BMC Health Services Research, 2020
Background Timely access is a challenge for providers of outpatient and community-based health services, as seen by the often lengthy waiting lists to manage demand.
Katherine E. Harding, David A. Snowdon, Luke Prendergast, Annie K. Lewis, Bridie Kent, Sandy F. Leggat, Nicholas F. Taylor   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source