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restrictions, significant morbidity and mortality waves, and allied supply line, economic, and political instability. Our clinical study design was pragmatic, including low-risk patients who were treated open ... presentation of patients, COVID‑19 misinformation, and political unrest. Mitigations were the use of community health workers, deployment of mobile clinical units, and simplification of screening. Trial
in offsetting some of their transportation expenses. Furthermore, the prevailing political environment in Lebanon, combined with the Lebanese government’s deportation policy affecting Syrian nationals ... improved attendance and adherence to intervention sessions among the Syrian participants. Given the current political unrest in Lebanon, particularly the bombings taking place in the South of Lebanon, and
in SSA encounter in their quest to address some of the most pressing health needs in the continent. Interestingly, outright political kickback from governments is only one of the challenges donors and ... have failed to kick off because its approval could be blocked by some powerful stakeholders. Given that naivete to political realities has compromised, delayed, or destroyed many well-intentioned
, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, and Philosophy, Western University , London, ON , Canada Jon Merz raises two objections to our article on the ethics of behavioral influences in trial recruitment. In this response
., documentation, protocols used to clean and to manage the data) will be uploaded to the open access Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (open ICPSR) repository at the conclusion of the ... HRPO Human Research Protection Office ICC Intraclass Correlation Coefficient ICD10 International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision ICPSR Inter‑university Consortium for Political and Social
made available through the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), which is an NIH-funded repository 1 year from project completion. These data will be shared with ... materials {29} Final de-identified datasets will be deposited and made available through Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), which is an NIH-funded repository, and that
assessments. Plans to promote participant retention and complete follow‑up {18b} All data will be managed with an intention to treat philosophy, including any who deviate from the allocated intervention. Once
; finance; time use; income; physical health; mental health; political involvement; and women’s decision making. Overall, there was evidence that the programme improved outcomes, although not physical health
language and philosophy. While biopsychosocial approaches have a well-established history in the treatment and management of chronic pain [ 12 ], their development in the context of prevention has been
in the Nouna HDSS and can consent to study participation. Incapacitated persons (i.e., immobile or unable to communicate) are excluded. Ethnicity, race, political orientation, religion, and class are ... region facing climate, security, and political challenges. Strengthening local capacity and bolstering NAPs requires improving pathways for the transfer of lowcarbon technology to regions like Nouna. As
, population coverage increased by less than 1% from 72.4 to 73.0% [ 8 ]. Zokaie and Pollick [ 9 ] attribute the stalled expansion to the following: political hurdles to implementing a water fluoridation
the program, the magnitude of effect on processes and outcomes, and to what degree it can enhance compliance with care standards. Challenges include a fraught social and political environment, pandemic ... work, including the fraught social and political environment in Ethiopia, pandemic travel restrictions, and a limited budget. Ethiopia is currently suffering a civil war, with fighting in the northern
opioid use disorder treatment cascade: a review of quality measures . J Subst Abuse Treat . 2018 ; 91 : 57 - 68 . 30. Primm B . Overview of the Office for Treatment Improvement and its philosophy . J
]. Informed by critical realist philosophy [14], they suggest that social interventions do not produce outcomes directly but rather that interventions introduce new resources into social settings (or ... criticises RCTs as positivist. We then explored how positivism has been defined in the wider literature on the philosophy of science. The paper then goes on to consider whether public health and health
through the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). Users will be required to agree to the conditions of use governing access to the public release data, including ... information and responses. After the grant period, access to the data will be provided through the Inter‑University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). Users will be required to agree to the
of these models lie in humanistic psychology, behavioral economics, stoic philosophy, and CBT. MMT is intended to help people develop healthy and self-actualizing personalities and thus references ... the tradition of stoic philosophy and will eventually help overcome the intention-behavior gap through the development of habits based on CBT. In summary, MMT has been designed to have a beneficial
study will take place in the department of Tiebissou (Gbeke region, Lacs district), Southern Bouake city, central Côte d’Ivoire (Fig. 1). Tiebissou is about 40 km north of Yamoussoukro (political
Juliette Inglis 6 7 Justin Presseau 4 5 Jamie Brehaut 4 5 0 Rotman Institute of Philosophy, Western University , London, ON , Canada 1 Prism Analytic Technologies , Cambridge, MA , USA 2 Departments of ... Medicine, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, and Philosophy, Western University , London, ON , Canada 3 Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen , Aberdeen , UK 4 Centre for Implementation Research
poverty and political instability, have created obstacles to problemsolving leading to frustration and barriers to community empowerment [ 26 ]. However, these issues can be overcome, as seen in a recent ... when groups have little to no understanding of service aims and priorities 41). In some wards, participants acknowledged the failings of political power and process — noting explicit reasons for not
, ethical, and political dimensions of stepped wedge trials using case studies of six recent evaluations. Methods We identified completed or ongoing stepped wedge evaluations using two systematic reviews. We ... and harm, including the social value of better evaluation. Third, the strongest arguments for a stepped wedge design are logistic and political rather than ethical. The design is advantageous when
