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- Face washing promotion for preventing active trachoma
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 20-Feb-2015
Trachoma remains a major cause of avoidable blindness among underprivileged populations in many developing countries. It is estimated that about 146 million people have active trachoma and nearly six million people are blind due to complications associate
- Face-down positioning or posturing after macular hole surgery
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 7-Nov-2011
Macular holes cause significant loss of central vision. With the aim of improving the outcome of surgery, a variable period of face-down positioning may be advised.
- Face‐to‐face interventions for informing or educating parents about early childhood vaccination
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 8-May-2018
Early childhood vaccination is an essential global public health practice that saves two to three million lives each year, but many children do not receive all the recommended vaccines. To achieve and maintain appropriate coverage rates, vaccination progr
- Face-to-face interventions for promoting physical activity
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 30-Sep-2013
Face-to-face interventions for promoting physical activity (PA) are continuing to be popular but their ability to achieve long term changes are unknown.
- Face‐to‐face versus remote and web 2.0 interventions for promoting physical activity
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 1-Oct-2013
Face-to-face interventions for promoting physical activity (PA) are continuing to be popular as remote and web 2.0 approaches rapidly emerge, but we are unsure which approach is more effective at achieving long term sustained change.
- Factor Xa inhibitors for acute coronary syndromes
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 14-Feb-2011
The activation of coagulation mechanisms plays a central role in the pathogenesis of acute coronary syndromes (ACS). Administration of unfractionated heparin (UFH) and low molecular weight heparins (LMWH), agents preventing the progression of thrombus for
- Factor Xa inhibitors versus vitamin K antagonists for preventing cerebral or systemic embolism in patients with atrial fibrillation
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 6-Mar-2018
Factor Xa inhibitors and vitamin K antagonists (VKAs) are now recommended in treatment guidelines for preventing stroke and systemic embolic events in people with atrial fibrillation (AF). This is an update of a Cochrane review previously published in 201
- Factors influencing the uptake and use of nicotine replacement therapy and e‐cigarettes in pregnant women who smoke: a qualitative evidence synthesis
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 22-May-2020
Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) delivers nicotine without the toxic chemicals present in tobacco smoke. It is an effective smoking cessation aid in non-pregnant smokers, but there is less evidence of effectiveness in pregnancy. Systematic review eviden
- Factors that impact on the use of mechanical ventilation weaning protocols in critically ill adults and children: a qualitative evidence‐synthesis
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 4-Oct-2016
Prolonged mechanical ventilation is associated with a longer intensive care unit (ICU) length of stay and higher mortality. Consequently, methods to improve ventilator weaning processes have been sought. Two recent Cochrane systematic reviews in ICU adult
- Factors that influence parents' and informal caregivers' views and practices regarding routine childhood vaccination: a qualitative evidence synthesis
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 27-Oct-2021
Childhood vaccination is one of the most effective ways to prevent serious illnesses and deaths in children. However, worldwide, many children do not receive all recommended vaccinations, for several potential reasons. Vaccines might be unavailable, or pa
- Factors that influence the provision of home‐based rehabilitation services for people needing rehabilitation: a qualitative evidence synthesis
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 10-Feb-2023
To increase people’s access to rehabilitation services, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, we need to explore how the delivery of these services can be adapted. This includes the use of home-based rehabilitation and telerehabilitation.
- Factors that influence the provision of intrapartum and postnatal care by skilled birth attendants in low‐ and middle‐income countries: a qualitative evidence synthesis
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 17-Nov-2017
In many low- and middle-income countries women are encouraged to give birth in clinics and hospitals so that they can receive care from skilled birth attendants. A skilled birth attendant (SBA) is a health worker such as a midwife, doctor, or nurse who is
- Families and Schools Together (FAST) for improving outcomes for children and their families
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 31-Jul-2019
Parents and carers have a major influence on children's learning and development from birth, through the school years, and into adulthood. Parental contributions to education include providing a secure environment in which to learn, providing intellectual
- Family and carer smoking control programmes for reducing children's exposure to environmental tobacco smoke
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 31-Jan-2018
Children's exposure to other people's tobacco smoke (environmental tobacco smoke, or ETS) is associated with a range of adverse health outcomes for children. Parental smoking is a common source of children's exposure to ETS. Older children in child care o
- Family and parenting interventions in children and adolescents with conduct disorder and delinquency aged 10‐17
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 23-Apr-2001
Conduct disorder and delinquency are significant problems for children and adolescents and their families, with the potential to consume much of the resources of the health, social care and juvenile justice systems. A number of family and parenting interv
- Family intervention (brief) for schizophrenia
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 5-Mar-2014
Supportive, positive family environments have been shown to improve outcomes for patients with schizophrenia in contrast with family environments that express high levels of criticism, hostility, or over-involvement, which have poorer outcomes and have mo
- Family intervention for schizophrenia
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 8-Dec-2010
People with schizophrenia from families that express high levels of criticism, hostility, or over involvement, have more frequent relapses than people with similar problems from families that tend to be less expressive of emotions. Forms of psychosocial i
- Family interventions for bipolar disorder
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 17-Oct-2007
Pharmacological treatments are the principal intervention for bipolar disorder. Alone, however, they are not sufficient to control symptoms and maintain psychosocial functioning. Adjunctive psychosocial interventions may help to improve the patient's cond
- Family support for reducing morbidity and mortality in people with HIV/AIDS
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 8-Jul-2009
Care and support play a critical role in assisting people who are HIV-positive to understand the need for prevention and to enable them to protect others. As the HIV/AIDS pandemic progresses and HIV-seropositive individuals contend with devastating illnes
- Family therapy approaches for anorexia nervosa
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 1-May-2019
Anorexia nervosa (AN) is characterised by a failure to maintain a normal body weight due to a paucity of nutrition, an intense fear of gaining weight or behaviour that prevents the individual from gaining weight, or both. The long-term prognosis is often
