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June 22, 2025 - Studies
4.3 Data Abstraction
4.4 Data Synthesis
4.5 Other Issues in Assessing Evidence at the Individual … This initial examination of the internal and external validity of individual studies is conducted by … To assess more carefully the internal validity of individual studies within research designs, the Task … The EPC may supplement these with the use of newer methods of assessing quality of individual studies … 4.2.2.1 Criteria and Process
The criteria used to rate the external validity of individual studies
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November 01, 2013 - Concepts
Level Addressed
Theory/Model
Focus
Key Concepts
Theories that address how individual … Readiness to change or attempt to change a health behavior varies among individuals and within an individual … Preparation
Action
Maintenance
Relapse
Theories that address processes between the individual … commercial marketing technologies to increase the practice of healthy behaviors in order to improve individual
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October 01, 2018 - C
The USPSTF recommends selectively offering or providing this service to individual patients based … Offer or provide this service for selected patients depending on individual circumstances. … Inconsistency of findings across individual studies. … Inconsistency of findings across individual studies.
Gaps in the chain of evidence. … Clinicians may provide this service to selected patients depending on individual circumstances.
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July 01, 2012 - Determining whether or not the service should be offered or provided to an individual patient will typically … in the estimate is constrained by such factors as:
The number, size, or quality of individual … Inconsistency of findings across individual studies. … or size of studies
Important flaws in study design or methods
Inconsistency of findings across individual … Clinicians may provide this service to selected patients depending on individual circumstances.
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July 01, 2017 - Criteria for Assessing Internal Validity of Individual Studies
Share to Facebook … The USPSTF Methods Workgroup developed a set of criteria by which the internal validity of individual … reviews are continuously evolving, the USPSTF allows the EPC to use newer methods of assessing quality of individual … Criteria for Assessing Internal Validity of Individual Studies . U.S.
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October 01, 2022 - • In the absence of evidence, healthcare professionals should use their judgement based on individual … Targeted school-based cognitive behavioral therapy programs to reduce depression and anxiety symptoms
- Individual … www.thecommunityguide.org/findings/violence-psychological-harm-traumatic-events-among-children-and-adolescents-cognitive-individual
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/draft-research-plan/breastfeeding-interventions
March 10, 2022 - Systematically Reviewed
Do individual-level … Do individual-level interventions to support breastfeeding improve the initiation, duration, intensity … What are the harms of individual-level interventions to support breastfeeding? … Interventions designed to increase initiation, exclusivity, or duration of consumption of breastmilk, including individual
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October 25, 2016 - The results for adults were organized by the level of intervention (individual vs system) and, owing … Individual-level interventions included individual or group counseling provided by professionals, peer … For individual-level interventions with breastfeeding outcomes, the raw number of events (prevalence … What are the effects of prenatal, peripartum, and postpartum individual- and health care system–level … What are the effects of prenatal, peripartum, and postpartum individual- and health care system–level
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September 27, 2022 - consider how common syphilis
infection is in the communities they serve and assess their patient’s individual … professionals should be knowledgeable about a patient’s risk for syphilis infection based on both an
individual … are in the community, social factors
affecting a patient’s ability to maintain sexual health, and individual … by
differences in social risk factors, access to care, and sexual networks rather than biology or individual
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January 01, 2010 - Interventions
The current literature does not allow assessment of the
individual aspects of multicomponent … OTHER CONSIDERATIONS
Implementation
Although the activities of individual clinicians to pro-
mote and … Additional research is needed to allow the
tailoring of interventions to the needs of individual women … There may be considerations that support
providing the service in an individual patient. … studies
inconsistency of findings across individual studies
limited generalizability of findings to
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Outcomes/
Timing Setting
intervention plus
exercise intervention
(supervised or
unsupervised,
individual … or group)
with exercise alone
(supervised or
unsupervised,
individual or group)
o Fall-related … or referable
Categories of
included
interventions:
• Exercise
(supervised or
unsupervised,
individual … primary care feasible
or referable
Categories of
included
interventions:
• Psychological
(individual
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January 01, 2020 - C
The USPSTF recommends selectively offering or providing this service to individual patients
based on … Offer or provide this service for selected
patients depending on individual
circumstances. … studies.
inconsistency of findings across individual studies.
limited generalizability of findings to … At 6 months, individual-level
interventions among women were associated with a 16% higher
likelihood … individual-level interventions and breastfeeding initiation was not
significant, based on the pooled
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December 01, 2007 - Because of the
variability in individual blood pressure measurements, it is
recommended that hypertension … D
ue to variability in individual blood pressure m
easurem
ents, it is recom
m
ended that hypertension … There
may be considerations that support providing the service in an
individual patient. … but confidence in the
estimate is constrained by such factors as:
the number, size, or quality of individual … studies
inconsistency of findings across individual studies
limited generalizability of findings to
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January 01, 2025 - However, knowing what the evidence says about each preventive
service that could be applied to individual … patients is a daunting
challenge for individual clinicians.
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May 01, 2021 - Effective behavioral counseling interventions varied in the following:
• Content:
Individual focus on … , local community
fitness center)
• How the intervention was delivered: Delivery methods included individual
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April 01, 2011 - There may be considerations that support
providing the service in an individual patient. … service only if there
are other considerations in support of
offering/providing the service to an
individual … but confidence in the estimate is
constrained by factors such as:
the number, size, or quality of individual … studies;
inconsistency of findings across individual studies;
limited generalizability of findings … or size of studies;
important flaws in study design or methods;
inconsistency of findings across individual
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary44/sexually-transmitted-infections-behavioral-counseling-2008
October 15, 2008 - sessions
IG2: moderate—40 min total; 2 individual sessions
CG: usual care, 10-min … sessions
IG2: moderate—40 min total; 2 individual sessions
CG: usual care, 10-min … sessions
IG2: moderate—40 min total; 2 individual sessions
CG: usual care, 10-min information only … sessions
IG2: moderate—40 min total; 2 individual sessions
CG: usual care, 10-min information only … IG: moderate—1 h total; 1 individual session
CG: wait list control
12 mo: 81
Condom use at most
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January 01, 2020 - Individual-
level interventions included individual or group counseling provided
by professionals, peer … For individual-level interventions with breastfeeding out-
comes, the raw number of events (prevalence … What are the effects of prenatal, peripartum, and postpartum individual- and health care system–level … What are the effects of prenatal, peripartum, and
postpartum individual- and health care system–level … Individual-Level Support
Among adults, individual-level support and education interven-
tions were associated
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan138/breastfeeding-primary-care-interventions
December 18, 2014 - The figure illustrates how prenatal, peripartum, and postpartum individual- and health system-level interventions … What are the effects of prenatal, peripartum, and postpartum individual … What are the effects of prenatal, peripartum, and postpartum individual- and health care system–level … collaboration with community services)
Type of interventions may include, but are not limited to: individual
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www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan138/breastfeeding-primary-care-interventions-october-2016
December 18, 2014 - The figure illustrates how prenatal, peripartum, and postpartum individual- and health system-level interventions … What are the effects of prenatal, peripartum, and postpartum individual … What are the effects of prenatal, peripartum, and postpartum individual- and health care system–level … collaboration with community services)
Type of interventions may include, but are not limited to: individual