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Community-based management of a five-arm randomised clinical trial in COVID-19 outpatients in South Africa: challenges and opportunities

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

The Problem of Habitual Offender Laws in States with Felony Disenfranchisement

office due to felony disenfranchisement laws. Thus, habitual offender laws target a formally disenfranchised group—people with felony convictions. That creates an archetypal political process problem. As ... he should raise that concern in the political arena, not the courts, and cast his vote accordingly. The problem for Brooker, and the one that animates this Article, is that he cannot vote. Because of

The Conundrums of Hate Crime Prevention

could prevent hate crimes from occurring in the first place. Those measures potentially include educational initiatives, conflict resolution programs, political reforms, social services, or other ... , political reforms, social services, or other proactive efforts aimed at the root causes of hate crimes. Focusing on the public conversation around anti-Asian hate crimes, this Essay argues that very

Implementing and evaluating group interpersonal therapy for postnatal depression in Lebanon and Kenya—individually randomised superiority 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

Anticipating and strategizing to address potential bottlenecks during clinical research projects in sub-Saharan Africa: a case for adapting approaches and tools used in the entrepreneurial and development sectors

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

Judicial Resistance to New York's 2020 Criminal Legal Reforms

popular and political will to pass the reforms must extend beyond the passage of the law and must also create mechanisms to scrutinize, guide, and support the judiciary’s implementation of the law. ... . Although these reforms were democratic and popular, judges were not sufficiently incentivized to properly implement the changes. If reforms are to succeed, the popular and political will to pass the reforms

Response to Merz

, 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

The Political Economy of Entrapment

Criminology by an authorized editor of Northwestern University School of Law Scholarly Commons - THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ENTRAPMENT RICHARD H. MCADAMS* INTRODUCTION By the time she was eighteen, Amy ... consider and critique the literature that seeks to justify the defense based on retributive theory, utilitarian theory, and political/institutional concerns. In each case, I do not claim that there is no

Using a theory-based, customized video game as an educational tool to improve physicians’ trauma triage decisions: study protocol for a randomized cluster trial

., 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

Suicide prevention for substance using youth experiencing homelessness: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

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

Risk-Based Sentencing and the Principles of Punishment

, INEQUALITY 247–48 (1993); G.A. Cohen, How to do Political Philosophy, in ON THE CURRENCY OF EGALITARIAN JUSTICE, AND OTHER ESSAYS IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY 228–29 (Michael Otsuka ed., 2011). to be punished.162 ... grateful to participants at the Stanford Law and Philosophy workshop for feedback on an early draft of this paper. And I owe special thanks to Juliana Bidadanure, Jessica Eaglin, James Forman Jr., Aziz Huq

Reconceiving Coercion-Based Criminal Defenses

is (prima facie) wrongful because it puts wrongful pressure on [the target’s] freedom to do otherwise.”); Mitchell Berman, Blackmail, in THE OXFORD HANDBOOK ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE CRIMINAL LAW 37, 62 ... personal or social characteristics such as psychological or emotional vulnerability, economic hardship, lack of a social safety net, and experience of natural disasters or political instability.56

A physiotherapy group exercise and self-management approach to improve physical activity in people with mild-moderate Parkinson’s disease: a randomized controlled trial

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

Afterword to Lunatics and Anarchists: Political Homicide in Chicago

Northwestern University School of Law Scholarly Commons Part of the Criminal Law Commons; Criminology Commons; and the Criminology and Criminal - AFTERWORD TO "LUNATICS AND ANARCHISTS: POLITICAL HOMICIDE IN

Evaluation of a disability-inclusive ultra-poor graduation programme in Uganda: study protocol for a cluster-randomised controlled trial with process evaluation

; 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

PAIN2.0: study protocol for a multicentre randomised controlled trial to evaluate the efficacy of a 10-week outpatient interdisciplinary multimodal pain therapy to manage recurrent pain for patients with risk factors of developing chronic pain in Germany

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

The effects of cool roofs on health, environmental, and economic outcomes in rural Africa: study protocol for a community-based cluster randomized controlled trial

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

Effect of bottled fluoridated water to prevent dental caries in primary teeth: study protocol for a phase 2 parallel-group 3.5-year randomized controlled clinical trial (waterBEST)

, 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

Mass Incarceration Paradigm Shift?: Convergence in an Age of Divergence

developments suggest that American penal philosophy may be inching toward norms—dignity, proportionality, legitimacy, and rehabilitation—that have checked draconian prison terms in Europe, Canada, and beyond. In ... divergence or convergence in penal philosophy. Notwithstanding the ebb and flow of penal attitudes, certain long-term trends have emerged in Western societies. They encompass a narrowing scope of offenders

Evaluation of an adaptive, multimodal intervention to reduce postoperative infections following cesarean delivery in Ethiopia: study protocol of the CLEAN-CS cluster-randomized stepped wedge interventional trial

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