Interventions for encouraging sexual behaviours intended to prevent cervical cancer

Interventions for encouraging sexual behaviours intended to prevent cervical cancer.

BACKGROUND Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the key risk factor for cervical cancer. Continuing high rates of HPV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in young people demonstrate the need for effective behavioural interventions. OBJECTIVES To assess the effectiveness of behavioural interventions for young women to encourage safer sexual behaviours to prevent transmission of STIs (inc...

Changes in sexual behaviours to prevent HIV.

Community-wide Interventions to Prevent Skin Cancer

ion and evaluation of studies. Each study that met the inclusion criteria was abstracted by two independent reviewers using the standard Community Guide abstraction process. Disagreements between reviewers were resolved by consensus. Community Guide methods were used to assess each study for internal and external validity (Appendix A, available Figure 2. Search yield for evidence included in MM...

Reinforcement Learning and Shaping: Encouraging Intended Behaviors

We explore dynamic shaping to integrate our prior beliefs of the final policy into a conventional reinforcement learning system. Shaping provides a positive or negative artificial increment to the native task rewards in order to encourage or discourage behaviors. Previously, shaping functions have been static: the additional rewards do not vary with experience. But some prior knowledge cannot b...

Interventions to increase cervical cancer screening rates.

Evidence-Based Answer Invitation letters are the most studied method of encouraging cervical cancer screening, and they are effective (relative risk [RR] = 1.44; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.24 to 1.52).1-3 Invitation letters may be more cost-effective than more intensive recruitment efforts (e.g., telephone interviews, promotional campaigns). Other educational interventions (e.g., other typ...