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Is There Hope for First Graders at the Lowest Percentiles? : The Roles of Self-Efficacy, Task Avoidance, and Support in the Development of Reading Fl…
2022
Self-efficacious children are expected to be more task-focused in challenging achievement situations and consequently have better chances of overcoming learning difficulties than children who have lower self-efficacy. The present study investigates this presumption with Finnish-speaking first graders struggling with reading acquisition ( N = 285). The development of the children’s reading fluency, self-efficacy, and task avoidance was followed from the middle of Grade 1 to the end of Grade 2, and a 6-week mobile game-based intervention was administered to those who exhibited the greatest risk for reading disabilities (≤ 5th percentile). Exploratory structural equation modeling was used to …
Readers’ Theater Projects for Special Education : A Randomized Controlled Study
2022
A randomized controlled trial was conducted to study the effectiveness of two readers’ theater (RT) programs in promoting reading skills and motivation of dysfluent readers in Grades 3–4. One program (RT Goal) included a goal of preparing a performance for an audience (n = 50), while another program (RT Practice) did not include such a goal (n = 49). A group of dysfluent readers receiving traditional oral reading intervention (Control group; n = 59) and a group of classroom peers (Mainstream group; n = 159) served as controls. The results indicate that both RT groups and the Control group developed at a higher rate in oral reading speed during the intervention period than the Mainstream gro…
Effects of ‘participatory group-based care management´ on wellbeing of older people living alone : a randomized controlled trial
2020
Background and objectives More knowledge is needed of the effectiveness of complex interventions that aim to promote the wellbeing of older people. This study examines the effects of ‘participatory group-based care management’ conducted among community-dwelling older adults living alone in Central and Eastern Finland. The intervention aimed to promote wellbeing and quality of life (QoL) using a needs-based and participatory approach. Methods The study was carried out as a randomized control trial (intervention group n = 185, control group n = 207). In this article, baseline and 6-month follow-up surveys were used. QoL (WHOQOL-Bref instrument), loneliness (Revised UCLA Loneliness Scale; sing…
Omaishoitajien käsityksiä kotikuntoutusinterventiosta ja sen merkitys arjessa selviytymiselle
2010
Omaishoidon tukeminen ja kehittäminen ovat yksi keskeisimmistä tavoitteista pyrittäessä siihen, että mahdollisimman moni voisi asua omassa kodissaan mahdollisimman pitkään. Parhaiten tähän tavoitteeseen on päästy tuki-interventioilla, joissa on yhdistelty erilaisia tukimuotoja yksilöllisesti ja oikea-aikaisesti. Tämän tutkielman tarkoituksena on kuvata omaishoitajien käsityksiä kotikuntoutusinterventiosta ja siitä saadusta tuesta arkeen. Tutkimuksen toisena käytännöllisenä tavoitteena on kerätä tietoa kotikuntoutuksen kehittämistä varten. Lähestyn tutkimusaihetta laadullisen tutkimusotteen avulla. Tutkimusaineisto kerättiin haastattelemalla viittä omaishoitajaa, jotka hoitavat muistisairast…
Taktiikkapainotteinen interventio kolmasluokkalaisille tytöille maalipeleissä : tutkimus pelikäsityksen mittaamisesta, opettamisesta ja siirtovaikutu…
2005
Effects of a School-Based Intervention on Motivation for Out-of-School Physical Activity Participation
2021
Purpose: We tested the effects of an autonomy-supportive intervention in physical education (PE) on high-school students’ autonomous motivation in PE, and their autonomous motivation, intentions, and physical activity (PA) behavior in a leisure time guided by the trans-contextual model. Method: PE classes in two schools were assigned to receive either an autonomy-supportive intervention and/or a control intervention via random allocation by the school. The PE teacher of the school assigned to the autonomy-supportive intervention was trained to provide autonomy support while the PE teacher of the school assigned to the control intervention received no training. Students (N = 256) in all clas…
Vahvempaa tutkimustietoa sosiaalityön kehittämiseksi : kriittisiä askeleita
2022
Implementointitutkimuksesta tukea sosiaalityön tutkimuksen ja käytännön kehittämiseen
2021
A Randomized Controlled Trial Protocol for Using an Accelerometer-Smartphone Application Intervention to Increase Physical Activity and Improve Healt…
2021
Physical activity is beneficial for improving health and reducing sick leave absences. This article describes a protocol for an intervention using an interactive accelerometer smartphone application, telephone counselling, and physical activity recordings to increase the physical activity of workers in the military and improve their health. Under the protocol, employees from six military brigades in Finland will be randomly assigned to intervention and control groups. The intervention group’s participants will use accelerometers to measure their daily physical activities and their quality of sleep for six months. They will receive feedback based on these measurements via a smartphone applic…
Durability is improved by both low and high intensity endurance training
2023
Introduction: This is one of the first intervention studies to examine how low- (LIT) and high-intensity endurance training (HIT) affect durability, defined as ‘time of onset and magnitude of deterioration in physiological-profiling characteristics over time during prolonged exercise’.Methods: Sedentary and recreationally active men (n = 16) and women (n = 19) completed either LIT (average weekly training time 6.8 ± 0.7 h) or HIT (1.6 ± 0.2 h) cycling for 10 weeks. Durability was analyzed before and after the training period from three factors during 3-h cycling at 48% of pretraining maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max): 1) by the magnitude and 2) onset of drifts (i.e. gradual change in energy ex…