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Definition. Community intervention trials are research studies designed to evaluate the effects of public health interventions on a community-wide basis, rather than on individuals.
Intervention groups, sometimes referred to as treatment groups, receive some form of intervention, such as a new reading program, designed to result in some change in behavior. Control or comparison groups do not receive the intervention.
(kun-TROLD KLIH-nih-kul TRY-ul) A clinical study that includes a comparison (control) group. The comparison group receives a placebo, another treatment, or no treatment at all.
Interventional studies can be divided broadly into two main types: (i) “controlled clinical trials” (or simply “clinical trials” or “trials”), in which individuals are assigned to one of two or more competing interventions, and (ii) “community trials” (or field trials), in which entire groups, e.g., villages, ...
Screening trials test new ways for detecting diseases or health conditions. Diagnostic trials study or compare tests or procedures for diagnosing a particular disease or condition. Treatment trials test new treatments, new combinations of drugs, or new approaches to surgery or radiation therapy.
Community-based research offers a notable advantage to smaller, independent practices primarily due to one factor: patients do not have to travel far to participate in a clinical trial, which can boost enrollment and advance scientific knowledge.
Community trials address the efficacy of preventive interventions applied at the group level (e.g., a social marketing campaign trial). Field trials address preventive interventions applied to individuals (e.g., a vaccine trial).
As mentioned in our publication Types of Clinical Trial Design, one of the designs is based, on the inclusion or not, of a control group to compare the effects of the investigational treatment. Trials that do not include it are called uncontrolled trials and those that do are called controlled trials.