HLTH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Sex Education
4 Dec 2017
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Can decide to implement the intervention on a large scale if shown to be beneficial. Use resources (time & money) more efficiently: may encourage other groups, communities, and countries to adopt intervention for their use. Encourage more stakeholders, like policy makers, to get on board. Large-scale trials often take time and maybe costly in order to achieve a large sample. Policy-markers may fill the void with something less-rigorously evaluated. Harder to determine if an observed effect is due to intervention alone. If the intervention will work equally well in less controlled conditions. If the sample population is comparable to other populations that he intervention may be applied to. The long term effect of the intervention (beyond the length of the study) Perception that rcts cannot be conducted in real-world settings. Lack of collaboration between researchers, policy-makers, and stakeholders. Students from intervention schools less likely to start smoking over the following.
