Search for dissertations about: "cluster randomized controlled trial"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 30 swedish dissertations containing the words cluster randomized controlled trial.

  2. 6. Outcome evaluation of school-based alcohol prevention : a European multi-centric trial (EU-Dap study)

    Author : Maria Paola Caria; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : Background: Curricula aiming at preventing substance use are widespread in European schools, without formal evaluation of their effectiveness. Promising programmes based on the Comprehensive Social Influence (CSI) model have never been evaluated in Europe. READ MORE

  4. 7. Outcome-based continuing medical education : an intervention to improve rational prescribing

    Author : Hamideh Mohammadzadeh Esmaily; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Keywords : Continuing Medical Education; Continuing Professional Development; primary care; outcome-based education; outcome assessment; cluster randomized controlled trial; intervention; prescription; rational prescribing; knowledge; skill; attitude; performance; behaviour change; Iran;

    Abstract : Background: Continuing medical education (CME) for doctors has been compulsory in Iran since 1991. Conventional CME programmes are often unsuccessful in improving medical professionals performance. Modifications of CME elements are necessary to improve the effectiveness of the programmes. READ MORE

  5. 8. Asthma treatment in primary care : studies of variability and health economic aspects

    Author : Marianne Heibert Arnlind; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Keywords : Drugs; prescribing; costs; regional variations; primary care; asthma; quality of life;

    Abstract : Background: Most asthma patients in Sweden are treated in primary care, but little is known about economic aspects of asthma treatment in that setting and about the regional variation in the use of antiasthmatics drugs and the adherence to national guidelines for the treatment of asthma. General aims: To analyze treatment of asthma patients in terms of classification of severity, quality of life, variation in utilization, clinical practice and costs from a societal perspective. READ MORE

  6. 9. Method developments for the attributable fraction in causal inference

    Author : Elisabeth Dahlqwist; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : In public health and policy making, understanding the overall impact of an intervention is of essential importance. A way to quantify the disease burden due to some risk factor is by the attributable fraction (AF). READ MORE

  7. 10. Promoting living in dignity and with a sense of well-being among older people living in residential facilities – older people’s perspective

    Author : Charlotte Roos; Maria Engström; Bernice Skytt; Barbro Wadensten; Marit Silén; Högskolan i Gävle; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Dignity; empowerment; life satisfaction; older people; person-centered climate; residential facilities; Swedish national fundamental values; well-being; Health-Promoting Work; Hälsofrämjande arbete;

    Abstract : The Swedish national fundamental values state that care of older people who are living in residential facilities should ensure that they live in dignity and with a sense of well-being. The overall aim of this licentiate thesis was to study, from older residents’ perspective, the effects of a caregiver intervention intended to put the Swedish national fundamental values into practice and to describe residents’ perceptions of what promotes the values: living in dignity and having a sense of well-being. READ MORE