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Chow, Ee Pin; Hassali, Mohamed Azmi; Saleem, Fahad; Aljadhey, Hisham – Health Education Journal, 2016
Objective: Patient education is key to the management of acute and chronic conditions. However, the majority of such educational interventions have been reported from health-care settings. In contrast, this study aims to evaluate whether a home-based intervention can result in better understanding about type 2 diabetes mellitus and can increase…
Descriptors: Patients, Patient Education, Chronic Illness, Intervention
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Barrera-Osorio, Felipe; Filmer, Deon; McIntyre, Joe – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2014
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and regression discontinuity (RD) studies both provide estimates of causal effects. A major difference between the two is that RD only estimates local average treatment effects (LATE) near the cutoff point of the forcing variable. This has been cited as a drawback to RD designs (Cook & Wong, 2008).…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Regression (Statistics), Research Problems, Comparative Analysis