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Treatment

• In newborns, changing parenteral nutrition sets every 48 hours rather than every 24 hours did not increase infusate contamination (1 January, 2000)
• Iron supplemented formula milk prevented iron deficiency anaemia and reduced developmental declines in infants from inner city areas (1 January, 2000)
• Parent application of eutectic mixture of local anaesthetics seemed to be as effective as clinician application for reducing children's pain and distress during intravenous insertion (1 January, 2000)
• A low dose of albuterol (salbutamol) by metered dose inhaler (MDI) with a spacer was as effective as higher doses by MDI or low doses by nebuliser in children with mild acute asthma (1 January, 2000)
• A school based, interdisciplinary curriculum in grades 6 and 7 reduced obesity in girls (1 January, 2000)
• HIV prevention videos increased “condom use self efficacy” and actual condom use (1 January, 2000)
• A psychoeducational programme increased knowledge and decreased sexual risk behaviours in young adults with genital herpes (1 January, 2000)
• Review: health education interventions offering information plus sexual negotiation skill development promote increased condom use in women (1 January, 2000)
• Parents who received transfer preparation had lower anxiety about their children's transfer from the paediatric intensive care unit to a general paediatric ward (1 January, 2000)
• Review: poor quality studies suggest that vitamin B-6 is beneficial in premenstrual syndrome (1 January, 2000)
• A worksite health promotion intervention improved employees' nutrition (1 January, 2000)
• A coping skills group and peer telephone support had similar effects on role performance, adaptability, and wellbeing in patients with multiple sclerosis (1 January, 2000)
• Counselling after a myocardial infarction improved mood for patients and their partners and decreased patient functional limitations (1 January, 2000)
• Review: counselling and education reduce cardiovascular risk factors but not mortality (1 January, 2000)
• Review: supplemented enteral nutrition reduces infectious complications and length of hospital stay in patients with critical illness (1 January, 2000)
• Behaviour therapies reduced urinary incontinence in older adults who were homebound and cognitively intact (1 January, 2000)
• A behavioural intervention improved cognitive function and depression in elderly people in residential homes (1 January, 2000)