Sentences with phrase «children in the intervention group»

The children in the intervention group were taught reading 40 to 50 minutes a day in intensive small group settings of one to four students per teacher.

RESULTS: The results showed significant improvement in the children in the intervention group for behavioral problems after a 2 - month follow - up.

After the intervention period, reported language use was substantially higher for children in the intervention group, and both children with core autism and non — core autism demonstrated improvements.

It is notable that more children in the intervention group had ASDs, and children in the intervention group had also received more «substantial intervention» outside of the treatment context.

In contrast, a randomized, controlled trial of a practice - based quality improvement initiative in North Carolina led to small changes in receipt of anticipatory guidance (only 18 % of parents of 6 - month - old children in the intervention group discussed all 4 anticipatory guidance topics) and no changes in parent behaviors.30

But a year later, when the children's behavior was judged by different teachers in a different classroom, no difference was found between the groups, even though the children in the intervention group were still behaving better at home (Webster - Stratton, 1998).

However, 21 % of children in the intervention group failed to improve by at least 0.3 SD, and a third still met research criteria for oppositional defiant disorder.

Children in the intervention group (Kids in Transition to School [KITS]-RRB- attended 2 - hour playgroups twice a week for 7 weeks in the summer.

However, children in the intervention group displayed a significant increase in the percentage of solutions that were nonconfrontational, indicating self - control (15 percent versus 8 percent).

However, follow - up analyses suggest that the intervention effect of PATHS ® was present for children with higher mean levels of verbal ability, but children in the intervention group with lower verbal ability were no different from comparison group children.

Results indicate that Intention to Treat (ITT) intervention effects were found regarding parent report at ages 2 to 5 and teacher report at age 7.5, indicating less growth in problem behavior for children in the intervention group than for those in the control group.

Children in the intervention group (n = 58) were compared to a waitlist control group (n = 62).

Results indicated that children in the intervention group improved significantly more on several measures of anxiety than did waiting - list controls.

However, some differences were noted on two standardized tests of verbal and literacy skill, which may be accounted for by the higher number of Latino children in the intervention group.

Children in the intervention group had significantly lower overall parent - reported behavior problems on the CBCL, compared with control children.

On the WALLY test, children in the intervention group showed significantly greater improvement in the number of positive strategies generated and on the number of positive feelings they could identify, compared with control children.

Results indicated that the children in the intervention group made more gains in preschool concepts, language skills, school readiness and motivation, compared with control group children (η p 2 =.018 — .029).

Children in the intervention group showed lower cortisol levels, with a moderating role of the dopamine receptor D4 (DRD4) VNTR exon III polymorphism.

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The public campaign invites concerned and interested parents to get more information by attending parenting events, discussions, and conferences; offers group - based interventions for parents with specific interests and concerns; and provides in - depth treatment for parents who have children with serious conduct problems or who have serious problems of their own.

Verbal IQ deficits among children of mothers with lower education compared with those who completed university were somewhat smaller in the intervention group than in the control group: 5.2 (95 % CI: 3.1, 7.3) vs 6.5 (95 % CI: 5.6, 7.4) points deficit among mothers with partial university education and 10.7 (95 % CI: 8.4, 12.9) vs 11.7 (95 % CI: 10.2, 13.2) points among those with secondary education or less.

Because mean child IQ scores at age 6.5 years, verbal IQ scores in particular, were higher among children in the intervention than the control group, 16 we might expect that socioeconomic inequalities in child IQ would be widened in the intervention group, owing to the increase in observed inequalities in breastfeeding.

Mean verbal IQ scores of children in the lowest maternal education category in the intervention were also substantially higher than those of their counterparts in the control group.

We also estimated relative indices of inequality (RII) and slope indices of inequality (SII) as summary measures of relative and absolute inequalities of breastfeeding outcomes, respectively, across the entire distribution of maternal education.24 For child IQ, linear regression analyses using GEEs were performed to estimate mean IQ differences in lower maternal education from the reference category in each intervention group and compared between the groups.

One randomized controlled trial comparing home - visited families with control participants who received other community services found a statistically significant difference in mean depressive symptoms at two years post-enrollment, but this contrast was nonsignificant at three years post - enrollment.15 A second study of Early Head Start found no differences in depressive symptoms between intervention and control group participants post-intervention, although a difference was detected at a longer - term follow - up prior to children's enrollment in kindergarten.10 Other randomized controlled trial studies have not found effects of home visitation on maternal depressive symptoms.12, 16,17

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• Parenting programmes are short - term, structured interventions, which have in previous reviews been shown to be effective in treating conduct problems in certain groups of children

The analysis of the socio - demographic, prenatal and natal parameters of mothers and newborns in the intervention group and control group (Table 1) did not reveal any statistically significant differences in terms of age, living area, education level, mother's profession, number of children, medical follow - up, number of prenatal visits, Apgar score and birth weight.

Fathers in the intervention group showed significantly greater gains in direct interaction and support for learning activities with children at home than the comparison group of fathers, but only if the fathers were at least moderately involved in the program.

Program Ph.D. (Clinical Psychology), University of Pittsburgh, 1986 Editor in Chief, Journal of Anxiety Disorders Member, Board of Directors, Council of University Directors of Clinical Psychology (CUDCP) Member, NIMH Institutional Review Group, Children and Families Intervention Group

By treating children in a camp - like setting, we are able to intensively evaluate and provide direct interventions related to children's difficulties in peer relationships and group activities.

Interviewers, who were not involved in the intervention process and who were blinded to the group to which the children belonged, conducted home visits at 6 and 12 months in order to collect data on the study variables.

Intervention: a community - based worker carrying out 2 activities: 1) 1 home visit to all pregnant women in the third trimester, followed by subsequent monthly home visits to all infants aged 0 — 24 months to support appropriate feeding, infection control, and care - giving; 2) a monthly women's group meeting using participatory learning and action to catalyse individual and community action for maternal and child health and nutrition.

The political leaders are extolling and highlighting your examples, the urban dwellers are chanting your praises, the rural dwellers can not stop talking about your messianic interventions in their lives, the civil servants can not thank you enough, nor can mothers, children, traditional rulers and indeed every group or stratum of the state.

If elected, Mr. Giardina pledged to evaluate current law enforcement programs and policies for interdiction and intervention; support 12 - step programs for addiction recovery; double the number of children and teenagers involved in after - school and sports programs sponsored by schools and faith and community - based groups; establish mentorship, apprenticeship, and internship programs that link East Hampton's youth with year - round homeowners and those who visit seasonally; create a volunteer program for those in recovery to be reintegrated into the job market; triple the number of police, firefighters, educators, and medical personnel trained to administer Narcan, and investigate the establishment of an easy - access residential treatment facility available as an alternative or supplement to incarceration.

Despite the intervention's brevity, the black children who received the affirmative assignment scored one fourth to one third of a grade point higher in that course than the black control group at the end of the term, and the difference showed up in other classes, too.

«By using a serious video game, we saw increases in meal - specific vegetable intake at dinner for the children in the Action and Coping groups and fruit intake at breakfast, lunch, and snacks for all intervention groups,» said lead author Karen Cullen, DrPH, RD, USDA / ARS, Children's Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Mchildren in the Action and Coping groups and fruit intake at breakfast, lunch, and snacks for all intervention groups,» said lead author Karen Cullen, DrPH, RD, USDA / ARS, Children's Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of MChildren's Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine.

In the intervention group, parenting skills as well as the child's disruptive behaviour, ADHD symptoms, anxiety, sleep problems and empathy improved significantly when compared with the control group and the results were permanent throughout the 12 - month follow - up.

«The benefit of the study is it may help in the identification of a high - risk group of children who may require specific interventions to prevent obesity and type 2 diabetes later in life,» she says.

Children in the control group, who were receiving standard community - based early intervention, had an average monthly cost of about $ 5,200 / child.

During this post-intervention period, children in the ESDM group were found to receive fewer hours of service per month than the children who received early intervention services typically - available in the community (168 vs. 257).

On the other hand, the ESDM group received many more hours in typical education settings than the group of children who previously received typically available early intervention services.

After adjustment for factors likely to affect re-infection such as latrine use and drinking water source, 14 % of the children in the handwashing with soap groups (handwashing alone and handwashing plus nail clipping) were re-infected with parasites compared to 29 % of the children in the no handwashing groups (nail clipping only or neither intervention).

Overall, studies in the field indicate that children from low - income families tend to show the most gains from social emotional learning interventions, but results for other groups of students are more mixed, although a number of studies show positive effects.

For children who received an intervention in preschool, those in the CPC group were more likely to achieve an associate's degree or higher (15.7 percent vs. 10.7 percent), a bachelor's degree (11.0 percent vs. 7.8 percent), or a master's degree (4.2 percent vs. 1.5 percent).

In particular, the overall weak to moderate parent - child resemblance in food groups, nutrients and healthy eating index scores suggest that interventions targeting parents could have only a moderate effect on improving their children's dieIn particular, the overall weak to moderate parent - child resemblance in food groups, nutrients and healthy eating index scores suggest that interventions targeting parents could have only a moderate effect on improving their children's diein food groups, nutrients and healthy eating index scores suggest that interventions targeting parents could have only a moderate effect on improving their children's diet.

A group led by Sheethal Reddy at Emory with foster children showed that a compassion intervention increased hopefulness in the children.

Children were randomized to either a behavioral diet intervention to promote a diet lower in saturated fat or a usual care control group.

During the first half year, the research team will measure language, social and cognitive development of the children and book reading skills of parents in both groups to estimate the effectiveness of the intervention.

As part of the long - running study on the Abecedarian Project, an intervention program for poor children in North Carolina, researchers have found that children in the program showed fewer symptoms of depression than those who were randomly assigned to a control group.

The Scope of this project is to: - Provide seed funding and support pilot implementation of ideas resulting from the June 2014 design workshop on improving outcomes for babies in foster care; - Launch pilots of co-designed strategies for working collaboratively with parents in creating daily, regularized family routines in four sites and evaluate executive function skills, child development, child literacy and parental stress levels of participants pre -, during, and post-intervention; - Build a core group of leaders to help set the strategic direction for Frontiers of Innovation (FOI) and take on leadership for parts of the portfolio; - With Phil Fisher at the University of Oregon and Holly Schindler at the University of Washington develop a measurement and data collection framework and infrastructure in order to collect data from FOI - sponsored pilots and increase cross-site and cross-strategy learning; Organize Building Adult Capabilities Working Group to identify, measure and develop strategies related to executive function and emotional regulation for adults facing high levels of adversity and produce summary report in the fall of 2014 that reviews the knowledge base in this area and implications for intervention, including approaches that impact two generatgroup of leaders to help set the strategic direction for Frontiers of Innovation (FOI) and take on leadership for parts of the portfolio; - With Phil Fisher at the University of Oregon and Holly Schindler at the University of Washington develop a measurement and data collection framework and infrastructure in order to collect data from FOI - sponsored pilots and increase cross-site and cross-strategy learning; Organize Building Adult Capabilities Working Group to identify, measure and develop strategies related to executive function and emotional regulation for adults facing high levels of adversity and produce summary report in the fall of 2014 that reviews the knowledge base in this area and implications for intervention, including approaches that impact two generatGroup to identify, measure and develop strategies related to executive function and emotional regulation for adults facing high levels of adversity and produce summary report in the fall of 2014 that reviews the knowledge base in this area and implications for intervention, including approaches that impact two generations.