Interventions for Improving Informal Social Support for Victim‐Survivors of Domestic Violence and Abuse: An Evidence and Gap Map by Karen L. Schucan Bird, Nicola Stokes, Carol Rivas

“…Selection Criteria The evidence and gap map focused on any interventions that explicitly aimed to create or enhance informal social support for victim‐survivors of domestic abuse. …”
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Moving beyond the ‘black box’ approach to public interventions promoting research, development and innovation. The concept of behavioural additionality by Paulina Kubera

“…Traditional evaluations of public policy actions focus on the input and output side of the intervention (i.e. assume the so-called ‘black box’ approach), whereas the experience of public intervention also affects deeper changes of the recipient companies. …”
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Effective for Whom? A Review of Psychological and Social Intervention Recommendations in European Dementia Care Guidelines Through the Lenses of Social Health and Intersectionality by David Neal, Sara Laureen Bartels, Saloua Berdai Chaouni, Thais Caprioli, Adelina Comas-Herrera, Rabih Chattat, Ana Diaz, Rose-Marie Dröes, Thomas Faulkner, Simone Anna Felding, Manuel Franco-Martin, Clarissa Giebel, Manuel Gonçalves-Pereira, Samira Hesse, Iva Holmerova, Wei Qi Koh, Emily Mena, Julia Misonow, Anahit Mkrtchyan, Nicole Müller, Martina Roes, Isabeau van Rompuy, Joanna Rymaszewska, Dorota Szcześniak, Jochen René Thyrian, Marjolein de Vugt, Amy Walden, Karin Wolf-Ostermann, Louise Hopper

“…Social health was not explicitly recognised as a mechanism of psychosocial interventions. …”
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Targeting mediating mechanisms of social disparities with an interventional effects framework, applied to the gender pay gap in Western Germany by Didden Christiane

“…However, assigning causal meaning to its estimated components requires strong assumptions that often lack explicit justification. This article emphasizes the importance of clearly defined estimands and their identification when targeting mediating mechanisms of social disparities. …”
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Volunteer-supported Care Transition Interventions for People Living with Dementia: A Secondary Analysis of a Scoping Review by Sidra Bharmal, Michelle Nelson, Marianne Saragosa

“…However, few available interventions explicitly focus on this patient population. …”
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Youth Social Action Interventions in Young People Aged Between 8 and 16 Years: A Narrative Review by Cara Shearer, Kathryn M. Curran, Paula Carroll, Lawrence Foweather

“…Sixteen studies were included after full-text screening, detailing eight individual youth social action interventions. The findings revealed a range of psychosocial, health, and personal development benefits for youth who participated in social action interventions. …”
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Protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial of the 'Outdoor' mobility intervention for older adults after hip fracture. by Katie J Sheehan, Denise Bastas, Stefanny Guerra, Siobhan Creanor, Claire Hulme, Sallie Lamb, Finbarr C Martin, Catherine Sackley, Toby Smith, Philip Bell, Melvyn Hillsdon, Sarah Pope, Heather Cook, Emma Godfrey

“…<h4>Background</h4>A high proportion of patients do not regain outdoor mobility after hip fracture. Rehabilitation explicitly targeting outdoor mobility is needed to enable these older adults to recover activities which they value most. …”
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Features of Structured, One-to-One Videoconference Interventions That Actively Engage People in the Management of Their Chronic Conditions: Scoping Review by Yu-Ting Chen, Michelle Lehman, Toni Van Denend, Jacqueline Kish, Yue Wu, Katharine Preissner, Matthew Plow, Tanya L Packer

“…Videoconference interventions were seen as feasible and acceptable to clients. …”
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A group psychological intervention for postnatal depression in British mothers of South Asian origin – the ROSHNI-2 RCT by Nusrat Husain, Karina Lovell, Carolyn A Chew-Graham, Farah Lunat, Penny Bee, Matthias Pierce, Najia Atif, Saadia Aseem, Kamaldeep Bhui, Peter Bower, Traolach Brugha, Nasim Chaudhry, Akbar Ullah, Linda Davies, Nadeem Gire, Deepali Sharma, Jahanara Miah, Waqas Ahmed, Joe Kai, Ilyas Mirza, Jillian Morrison, Naeem Mohmed, Atif Rahman, Shanaya Rathod, Najma Siddiqi, Waquas Waheed, Christopher Williams, Nosheen Zaidi, Richard Emsley, Richard Morriss

“…In addition, the culturally adapted PHP intervention content enabled intervention delivery and was positively received by the PHP participants. …”
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Developing pre-service language teachers’ GenAI literacy: an interventional study in an English language teacher education course by Ting Huang, Chenze Wu, Meixin Wu

“…This study provides valuable insights for school leaders and program directors to integrate explicit GenAI literacy training into language teacher education programs. …”
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Use of implementation science in tobacco control intervention studies in the USA between 2000 and 2020: a scoping review protocol by Sarah Neil-Sztramko, Rebecca Selove, Jennifer Leng, Ramzi George Salloum, Tamar Ginossar, Carolyn Heckman, Taneisha S Scheuermann, Todd Combs, Raquel Qualls-Hampton, Rebecca Armstrong, Shellie Ellis, Philip J Walker

“…Studies must target potential or active tobacco users, intervention providers such as educators or healthcare professionals, or US policy-makers. …”
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Hepatitis B virus seroepidemiology data for Africa: Modelling intervention strategies based on a systematic review and meta-analysis. by Anna L McNaughton, José Lourenço, Phillip Armand Bester, Jolynne Mokaya, Sheila F Lumley, Uri Obolski, Donall Forde, Tongai G Maponga, Kenneth R Katumba, Dominique Goedhals, Sunetra Gupta, Janet Seeley, Robert Newton, Ponsiano Ocama, Philippa C Matthews

“…In high-prevalence populations, adult catch-up vaccination has sometimes been deployed, but an alternative Test and Treat (T&T) approach could be used as an intervention to interrupt transmission. Universal T&T has not been previously evaluated as a population intervention for HBV infection, despite high-profile data supporting its success with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).…”
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Swallowing function management in patients with disorders of consciousness: a scoping review by Hua Long, Hua Long, Bixia Lu, Qiao Tan, Dongmei Dai, Fengfei Zeng, Fengfei Zeng

“…Most of the included studies did not explicitly specify the timing of swallowing assessment and intervention.ConclusionA standardized approach for evaluating and intervening in swallowing function among patients with disorders of consciousness is notably lacking. …”
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Efficacité d’une rééducation des troubles de la lecture auprès d’enfants déficients intellectuels. by Pauline Drouet, Gérald Bussy, Lucie Lepsch

“…Cependant, grâce aux récentes recherches, on sait qu’ils sont capables d’apprendre à décoder à condition de leur fournir un enseignement explicite, progressif et intensif. Pour autant, les études qui démontrent l’efficacité de méthodes d’intervention sont rares, majoritairement anglophones et ne prennent pas en compte l’hétérogénéité des profils présentés au sein de cette population. …”
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The effects of neighborhood perceptions on response to a technology-assisted parenting intervention for adolescent substance use: protocol of a diversity supplement to parent SMART... by Zabin Patel-Syed, Sarah A. Helseth, Robert Rosales, Tim Janssen, Kelli Scott, Sara J. Becker

“…Discussion To date, few studies have explicitly tested how neighborhood affects response to TAIs for adolescent substance use. …”
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Dynamics in pre-service teachers’ beliefs about multilingualism and linguistic diversity in education: a Q methodology intervention study by Denis Weger

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Exploring Change Mechanisms in a Complex Intervention: Lessons Learned From a Longitudinal Constructivist Grounded Theory Study by Stephanie Kipfer, Cedric Mabire, Andrea Koppitz, Sandrine Pihet

“…It shares and discusses lessons learned when applying this approach to explore change mechanisms in the context of a psychoeducational intervention for family dementia caregivers. Important lessons learned included: (1) By comparing data from different time points, changes could be identified even when not explicitly mentioned by participants. (2) Participants exhibited more awareness of changes and related mechanisms in interviews conducted during the intervention compared to those executed after, where they had already integrated the new strategies into their daily lives. (3) Analyses conducted within and across participants for each time point and across all time points revealed time-specific mechanisms, shared patterns and journeys substantially differing from others. (4) Including participants’ quantitative intervention outcomes as additional data in the qualitative analysis helped identify facilitators and barriers to change. …”
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Mindfulness-based interventions to reduce burnout and stress in physicians: a study protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis by Johannes Caspar Fendel, Johannes Julian Bürkle, Anja Simone Göritz

“…Studies examining the effect of interventions for physicians explicitly based on mindfulness will be included. …”
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Interventions for increasing colorectal cancer screening uptake among African-American men: A systematic review and meta-analysis. by Charles R Rogers, Phung Matthews, Lei Xu, Kenneth Boucher, Colin Riley, Matthew Huntington, Nathan Le Duc, Kola S Okuyemi, Margaret J Foster

“…<h4>Materials and methods</h4>In this systematic review and meta-analysis, Medline, CINAHL, Embase, and Cochrane CENTRAL were searched for U.S.-based interventions that: were published after 1998-January 2020; included African-American men; and evaluated CRC screening uptake explicitly. …”
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Understanding the effectiveness and underlying mechanisms of lifestyle modification interventions in adults with learning disabilities: a mixed-methods systematic review by Dikshyanta Rana, Sophie Westrop, Nishant Jaiswal, Evi Germeni, Arlene McGarty, Louisa Ells, Phillippa Lally, Michael McEwan, Craig Melville, Leanne Harris, Olivia Wu

“…Lifestyle modification interventions that target health-risk behaviours can prevent or reduce their negative effects. …”
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