scholarly journals The effect of monetary incentive on survey response for vulnerable children and youths: A randomized controlled trial

PLoS ONE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. e0233025
Author(s):  
Jan Hyld Pejtersen
Keyword(s):  
Randomized Controlled Trial ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Monetary Incentive ◽  
Survey Response ◽  
Vulnerable Children ◽  
Randomized Controlled

scholarly journals Parent-mediated social communication therapy for young children at risk for neurodevelopmental difficulties living in poverty in Brazil: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Priscilla Brandi Gomes Godoy ◽  
Elizabeth Shephard ◽  
Adriana Argeu ◽  
Leticia R Silveira ◽  
Erica Salomone ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Randomized Controlled Trial ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Social Communication ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Children At Risk ◽  
Vulnerable Children ◽  
Communication Development ◽  
Randomized Controlled ◽  
Child Caregiver

Background: Exposure to adverse environments such as socioeconomic disadvantage and psychosocial deprivation are risk-factors for neurodevelopmental problems in childhood. Children exposed to such environments may benefit from interventions that target social-communication abilities, since these are protective factors for healthy neurodevelopment in vulnerable children. One intervention that has shown efficacy in improving early social-communication development is Paediatric Autism Communication Therapy (PACT). However, the efficacy of PACT has not been tested for vulnerable children exposed to environmental risk-factors in Latin American countries. This randomized controlled trial will test the efficacy of PACT in improving social-communication development in young children at risk for neurodevelopmental difficulties living in poverty in Brazil.Methods: Participants will be 160 children aged 2 years 0 months to 4 years 11 months with low social-communication abilities and their primary caregivers. Child-caregiver dyads will be recruited from public early childhood education centers in impoverished urban regions of the city of São Paulo, Brazil. Low social-communication abilities will be defined by Standard Scores <84 on the Socialization and/or Communication domains of the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales. Child-caregiver dyads will be randomized to receive 12 sessions (five months) of the PACT intervention (N=80) or five months of community support as usual plus psychoeducation (N=80). The primary outcome (parent-child interaction) and secondary outcomes (parent-reported social-communication abilities, neurophysiological activity during a live social interaction) will be measured pre- and post-intervention. Discussion: This study may lead to new interventions for vulnerable young children in Brazil and better understanding of the neural mechanisms of PACT.

scholarly journals Pre-Printed Versus Handwritten Post-It Notes’ Impact on Survey Response in Hard to Recruit Survey Recipients: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Veterans with PTSD Disability

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maureen Murdoch ◽  
Michele Spoont ◽  
Eileen Harwood ◽  
Barbara Clothier ◽  
Ann Bangerter ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Randomized Controlled Trial ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Response Rates ◽  
Survey Response ◽  
Intention To Treat ◽  
Randomized Controlled ◽  
Survey Response Rate ◽  
Mailed Survey

Our goal was to see if affixing pre-printed Post-it note messages to a mailed survey would generate response rates similar to when handwritten Post-it notes were used in hard to recruit survey recipients. The study was a nested, randomized controlled trial of 575 individuals from a cohort of 2,100 United States Veterans with PTSD disability. Analysis was intention-to-treat. Survey response rate was 38.5% in the pre-printed Post-it note arm and 44.9% in the handwritten Post-it note arm (p = 0.09). In non-inferiority testing, pre-printed notes’ response rate exceeded the 10% margin of inferiority but was less than the 15% margin when compared to handwritten notes.

Treatment Fidelity Procedures for an Aphasia Intervention Within a Randomized Controlled Trial: Design, Feasibility, and Results

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (1S) ◽  
pp. 412-424
Author(s):  
Elissa L. Conlon ◽  
Emily J. Braun ◽  
Edna M. Babbitt ◽  
Leora R. Cherney
Keyword(s):  
Randomized Controlled Trial ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Treatment Protocol ◽  
Treatment Fidelity ◽  
Protocol Adherence ◽  
Study Condition ◽  
Randomized Controlled ◽  
Aphasia Therapy ◽  
Percent Accuracy ◽  
Over Time

Purpose This study reports on the treatment fidelity procedures implemented during a 5-year randomized controlled trial comparing intensive and distributed comprehensive aphasia therapy. Specifically, the results of 1 treatment, verb network strengthening treatment (VNeST), are examined. Method Eight participants were recruited for each of 7 consecutive cohorts for a total of 56 participants. Participants completed 60 hr of aphasia therapy, including 15 hr of VNeST. Two experienced speech-language pathologists delivered the treatment. To promote treatment fidelity, the study team developed a detailed manual of procedures and fidelity checklists, completed role plays to standardize treatment administration, and video-recorded all treatment sessions for review. To assess protocol adherence during treatment delivery, trained research assistants not involved in the treatment reviewed video recordings of a subset of randomly selected VNeST treatment sessions and completed the fidelity checklists. This process was completed for 32 participants representing 2 early cohorts and 2 later cohorts, which allowed for measurement of protocol adherence over time. Percent accuracy of protocol adherence was calculated across clinicians, cohorts, and study condition (intensive vs. distributed therapy). Results The fidelity procedures were sufficient to promote and verify a high level of adherence to the treatment protocol across clinicians, cohorts, and study condition. Conclusion Treatment fidelity strategies and monitoring are feasible when incorporated into the study design. Treatment fidelity monitoring should be completed at regular intervals during the course of a study to ensure that high levels of protocol adherence are maintained over time and across conditions.

Phonomotor Versus Semantic Feature Analysis Treatment for Anomia in 58 Persons With Aphasia: A Randomized Controlled Trial

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (12) ◽  
pp. 4464-4482 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane L. Kendall ◽  
Megan Oelke Moldestad ◽  
Wesley Allen ◽  
Janaki Torrence ◽  
Stephen E. Nadeau
Keyword(s):  
Randomized Controlled Trial ◽  
Response Latency ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Semantic Knowledge ◽  
Semantic Feature ◽  
Feature Analysis ◽  
Group Differences ◽  
Randomized Controlled ◽  
Confrontation Naming ◽  
Semantic Feature Analysis

Purpose The ultimate goal of anomia treatment should be to achieve gains in exemplars trained in the therapy session, as well as generalization to untrained exemplars and contexts. The purpose of this study was to test the efficacy of phonomotor treatment, a treatment focusing on enhancement of phonological sequence knowledge, against semantic feature analysis (SFA), a lexical-semantic therapy that focuses on enhancement of semantic knowledge and is well known and commonly used to treat anomia in aphasia. Method In a between-groups randomized controlled trial, 58 persons with aphasia characterized by anomia and phonological dysfunction were randomized to receive 56–60 hr of intensively delivered treatment over 6 weeks with testing pretreatment, posttreatment, and 3 months posttreatment termination. Results There was no significant between-groups difference on the primary outcome measure (untrained nouns phonologically and semantically unrelated to each treatment) at 3 months posttreatment. Significant within-group immediately posttreatment acquisition effects for confrontation naming and response latency were observed for both groups. Treatment-specific generalization effects for confrontation naming were observed for both groups immediately and 3 months posttreatment; a significant decrease in response latency was observed at both time points for the SFA group only. Finally, significant within-group differences on the Comprehensive Aphasia Test–Disability Questionnaire ( Swinburn, Porter, & Howard, 2004 ) were observed both immediately and 3 months posttreatment for the SFA group, and significant within-group differences on the Functional Outcome Questionnaire ( Glueckauf et al., 2003 ) were found for both treatment groups 3 months posttreatment. Discussion Our results are consistent with those of prior studies that have shown that SFA treatment and phonomotor treatment generalize to untrained words that share features (semantic or phonological sequence, respectively) with the training set. However, they show that there is no significant generalization to untrained words that do not share semantic features or phonological sequence features.

Baclofen versus clonidine in the treatment of opiates withdrawal, side-effects aspect: a double-blind randomized controlled trial

2001 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. A. Ahmadi-Abhari ◽  
S. Akhondzadeh ◽  
S. M. Assadi ◽  
O. L. Shabestari ◽  
Z. M. Farzanehgan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Randomized Controlled Trial ◽  
Side Effects ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Double Blind ◽  
Randomized Controlled
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