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Gloria Bodnar - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Cumulative Effects of Adding a Small Group Intervention to Social Network Testing on HIV Testing Rates Among Crack Users in San Salvador, El Salvador
AIDS and Behavior, 2021Co-Authors: Julia Dickson-gomez, Sergey Tarima, Laura Glasman, Wendy Cuellar, Lorena Rivas Mendoza, Gloria BodnarAbstract:The present study evaluates a combination prevention intervention for crack users in San Salvador, El Salvador that included social network HIV testing, community events and small Group Interventions. We examined the cumulative effects of the social network HIV testing and small Group Interventions on rates of HIV testing, beyond the increase that we saw with the introduction of the social network HIV testing intervention alone. HIV test data was converted into the number of daily tests and analyzed the immediate and overtime impact of small Group Interventions during and in the twelve weeks after the small Group intervention. The addition of the small Group Interventions to the baseline of monthly HIV tests resulted in increased rates of testing lasting 7 days after the small Group Interventions suggesting a reinforcing effect of small Group Interventions on testing rates.
R. Courtney Mitchell - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Increasing Elementary-aged Students’ Reading Fluency with Small-Group Interventions: A Comparison of Repeated Reading, Listening Passage Preview, and Listening Only Strategies
Journal of Behavioral Education, 2009Co-Authors: John C. Begeny, Hailey E. Krouse, Sarah G. Ross, R. Courtney MitchellAbstract:Although reading fluency is one of the five essential early-reading skills students must develop, many elementary-aged students in the United States do not read age-appropriate material fluently. As such, small-Group Interventions are practical and often more time efficient than individualized Interventions aimed to address this problem. However, few small-Group Interventions targeting students’ reading fluency have been empirically evaluated. The primary purpose of this study was to examine three small-Group reading Interventions that have been used to improve students’ reading fluency (repeated reading, listening passage preview, and listening only). Using an alternating-treatments design, the effects of each intervention were evaluated with four-second-grade students with average to below average reading skills. Students’ words read correctly per minute (immediately following and 2 days after intervention) served as the outcome measures. Results supported the repeated reading intervention, followed by listening passage preview, as most effective. Findings also suggested that improvements from each intervention remained 2 days later.
Julia Dickson-gomez - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Cumulative Effects of Adding a Small Group Intervention to Social Network Testing on HIV Testing Rates Among Crack Users in San Salvador, El Salvador
AIDS and Behavior, 2021Co-Authors: Julia Dickson-gomez, Sergey Tarima, Laura Glasman, Wendy Cuellar, Lorena Rivas Mendoza, Gloria BodnarAbstract:The present study evaluates a combination prevention intervention for crack users in San Salvador, El Salvador that included social network HIV testing, community events and small Group Interventions. We examined the cumulative effects of the social network HIV testing and small Group Interventions on rates of HIV testing, beyond the increase that we saw with the introduction of the social network HIV testing intervention alone. HIV test data was converted into the number of daily tests and analyzed the immediate and overtime impact of small Group Interventions during and in the twelve weeks after the small Group intervention. The addition of the small Group Interventions to the baseline of monthly HIV tests resulted in increased rates of testing lasting 7 days after the small Group Interventions suggesting a reinforcing effect of small Group Interventions on testing rates.
Stephen K. Garcia - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Developing Social Network Propositions to Explain Large-Group Intervention Theory and Practice:
Advances in Developing Human Resources, 2007Co-Authors: Stephen K. GarciaAbstract:The problem and the solution . In response to turbulent business environments, organizations are increasingly calling on the human resource development (HRD) function to facilitate organizational change.Thus, HRD professionals are looking to new forms of organization development that promise more rapid, whole-system change. One approach is large-Group Interventions. Although practitioners and researchers recognize the efficacy of large-Group Interventions, many researchers contend that the underlying theoretical mechanisms by which these Interventions operate are poorly understood, resulting in a gap between research and practice that makes it difficult to say with certainty how large-Group Interventions operate, when they are appropriate, or how they might be integrated with other approaches.This article suggests that a social network perspective can inform our understanding of how large-Group Interventions work. Drawing on the social network and organizational change literature, the article develops fou...
Katherine N. Irvine - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Reducing Energy Use and Carbon Emissions: A Critical Assessment of Small-Group Interventions
Energies, 2016Co-Authors: J. Fisher, Katherine N. IrvineAbstract:Motivating individuals to decrease the environmental impact of their lifestyles could play an important role in reducing energy use and meeting carbon reduction commitments in developed countries. Few approaches which encourage voluntary changes in behaviour result in substantial reductions in energy use, however, particularly over the longer term. An exception to this general trend is small-Group Interventions which use Group participation and which target collections of behaviours including energy use. Through a critical examination of published data this paper considers the energy and carbon emission reductions achieved by such initiatives, the durability of those reductions, and the common elements which may contribute to their success. Participants in small-Group Interventions reduced their energy use and carbon emissions by approximately 20% within a year. There is also some evidence that these reductions were lasting and that participants continued to make changes to their lifestyles after the end of the intervention. The reasonable person model (RPM) is proposed as a useful framework for understanding the success of these small-Group Interventions. Examination of small-Group Interventions suggests that they provide settings which are supportive of informational needs, and that this may be important to their success in promoting substantial and durable decreases in energy use.
