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- Interventions for promoting physical activity
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 24-Jan-2005
Little is known about the effectiveness of strategies to enable people to achieve and maintain recommended levels of physical activity.
- Interventions for promoting physical activity in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 16-Apr-2020
Escalating awareness of the magnitude of the challenge posed by low levels of physical activity in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) highlights the need for interventions to increase physical activity participation. The widely-accep
- Interventions for promoting physical activity in people with cystic fibrosis
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 12-Dec-2013
In individuals with cystic fibrosis there are no established targets for participation in physical activity, nor have any ideal strategies to promote participation in physical activity been identified
- Interventions for promoting physical activity in people with neuromuscular disease
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 24-May-2021
The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that people of all ages take regular and adequate physical activity. If unable to meet the recommendations due to health conditions, international guidance advises being as physically active as possible. Evid
- Interventions for promoting reintegration and reducing harmful behaviour and lifestyles in street‐connected children and young people
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 13-Jan-2016
Millions of street-connected children and young people worldwide live or work in street environments. They are vulnerable to many risks, whether or not they remain connected to families of origin, and despite many strengths and resiliencies, they are excl
- Interventions for promoting smoke alarm ownership and function
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 23-Apr-2001
Globally, fire-related burns and smoke inhalation accounted for 238,000 deaths in 2000, a rate of 3.9 deaths/100,000, with children and young persons aged less than 44 years accounting for the highest proportion of deaths. Smoke alarm ownership has been a
- Interventions for promoting the eruption of palatally displaced permanent canine teeth, without the need for surgical exposure, in children aged 9 to 14 years
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 30-Dec-2021
A permanent upper (maxillary) canine tooth that grows into the roof of the mouth and frequently does not appear (erupt) is called a palatally displaced canine (PDC). The reported prevalence of PDC in the population varies between 1% and 3%. Management of
- Interventions for promoting the initiation of breastfeeding
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 9-Nov-2016
Despite the widely documented risks of not breastfeeding, initiation rates remain relatively low in many high-income countries, particularly among women in lower-income groups. In low- and middle-income countries, many women do not follow World Health Org
- Interventions for prophylaxis of hepatic veno-occlusive disease in people undergoing haematopoietic stem cell transplantation
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 22-May-2015
Hepatic veno-occlusive disease (VOD) is a severe complication after haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). Different drugs with different mechanisms of action have been tried in HSCT recipients to prevent hepatic VOD. However, it is uncertain wh
- Interventions for protecting renal function in the perioperative period
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 11-Sep-2013
Various methods have been used to try to protect kidney function in patients undergoing surgery. These most often include pharmacological interventions such as dopamine and its analogues, diuretics, calcium channel blockers, angiotensin-converting enzyme
- Interventions for providers to promote a patient-centred approach in clinical consultations
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 19-Dec-2013
Communication problems in health care may arise as a result of healthcare providers focusing on diseases and their management, rather than people, their lives and their health problems. Patient-centred approaches to care delivery in the patient encounter
- Interventions for psychosexual dysfunction in women treated for gynaecological malignancy
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 15-Apr-2009
Psychosexual dysfunction (sexual difficulties not directly due to physical factors) is known to be a common complication of treatment for gynaecological cancer. It has a considerable impact on quality of life (QoL) for the increasing number of women who a
- Interventions for psychotic symptoms concomitant with epilepsy
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 21-Dec-2015
This is an updated version of the original Cochrane review published in Issue 4, 2008.
- Interventions for raising breast cancer awareness in women
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 10-Feb-2017
Breast cancer continues to be the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women globally. Early detection, diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer are key to better outcomes. Since many women will discover a breast cancer symptom themselves, it is important th
- Interventions for recruiting smokers into cessation programmes
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 12-Dec-2012
Tobacco control is a top public health priority around the globe due to the high prevalence of cigarette smoking and its associated morbidity and mortality. Much effort has been focused on establishing the effectiveness of different smoking cessation stra
- Interventions for recurrent corneal erosions
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 9-Jul-2018
Recurrent corneal erosion is a common cause of disabling ocular symptoms and predisposes the cornea to infection. It may follow corneal trauma. Measures to prevent the development of recurrent corneal erosion following corneal trauma have not been firmly
- Interventions for recurrent idiopathic epistaxis (nosebleeds) in children
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 31-Jul-2012
Recurrent idiopathic epistaxis (nosebleeds) in children is repeated nasal bleeding in patients up to the age of 16 for which no specific cause has been identified. Although nosebleeds are very common in children, and most cases are self limiting or settle
- Interventions for reducing anxiety in women undergoing colposcopy
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 7-Dec-2011
Prior to the development of cervical cancer abnormal cervical cells can be detected on a cervical smear. The usual practice following an abnormal cervical smear is to perform colposcopy. Colposcopy is the visualisation of the cervix using a binocular micr
- Interventions for reducing inflammation in familial Mediterranean fever
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 19-Oct-2018
Familial Mediterranean fever, a hereditary auto-inflammatory disease, mainly affects ethnic groups living in the Mediterranean region. Early studies reported colchicine as a potential drug for preventing attacks of familial Mediterranean fever. For those
- Interventions for reducing medication errors in children in hospital
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 3-Mar-2015
Many hospitalised patients are affected by medication errors (MEs) that may cause discomfort, harm and even death. Children are at especially high risk of harm as the result of MEs because such errors are potentially more hazardous to them than to adults.