Sentences with phrase «previous studies regarding»

Previous studies regarding the relationship of the family environment to children's involvement in bully / victim problems at school primarily focused on children's perceptions of family dimensions.

Previous studies regarding positive impacts of Rainforest Alliance certification were conducted on farms using one of the previous versions of the standard which included stricter shade criteria.

Not exact matches

In a previous study where we explored women's preferences for aspects of intrapartum care regarding planned place of birth we reported that women with a preference for a hospital birth — both midwife - led and obstetrician - led — found the possibility of pain relief treatment much more important compared to women with a preference for a home birth [18].

However, and we share this cautiously and in the interest of full disclosure, ACOG reviewed a single case series and four retrospective studies regarding low - vertical uterine incision and found these women were just as likely to have a successful VBAC as women with a previous low - transverse uterine incision (2004).

With regard to poor throwing technique, we identified a list of 24 variables that constitute «proper» pitching technique, based on previous studies of several hundred elite professional and college players conducted at ASMI.

«Earlier studies regarding lifetime alcohol consumption and risk of alcoholic cirrhosis reached opposite conclusions, for instance, whether a previous high level of alcohol amount predicted future risk, even after having cut down,» commented Dr. Askgaard.

«Although previous studies of non-surgical weight loss interventions failed to show consistent results regarding asthma risks, our result strongly suggests that the kind of significant weight loss that often results from bariatric surgery can reduce adverse asthma events.»

In addition, their findings differed from those of previous studies of Western children with regard to the age at which the adult response pattern was observed, and showed that cultural differences might have been one of the reasons for this.

These previous studies provided important information regarding the dynamics of contact and hybridization.

Regarding deuterostomes, previous studies on the origin of the notochord focused on the hemichordate stomochord, an unpaired chordoid outpocketing of the pharynx, as a possible notochord homolog (27).

Ambient levels of PM 2 days before submaximal exercise testing were significantly associated with increased ST - segment depression during the test.17 This finding suggests that air pollution exposure conveys a greater susceptibility to myocardial ischemia, as demonstrated in an experimental study of dogs exposed to CAP.175 These results also offer insight regarding the relationship between exposure to PM and the timing of AMI.11 Significant associations were identified between symptom onset and both acute (levels within 2 hours before symptoms) and subacute (previous - day average concentration) exposures to PM2.5.

But because of variations in method, sample, and context from study to study, the previous body of literature has not provided a decisive answer regarding which strategy, at scale, has the biggest impact per dollar.

Lubienski notes that the report is based on seventeen previous studies and outlines many objections regarding assumptions and conclusions by the author.

Our intention is to improve scientific knowledge and clinical practice regarding effective instruction for remediating reading comprehension difficulties for students in the middle grades (grades 4 and 5) and to link with previous studies that begin in grade 6.

Historically (and as researchers from Stanford University recently documented in one city, echoing findings from many previous studies), school systems have tended to assign teachers with the least experience to work with the students who need the most help, while assigning the most well - regarded veterans to work with the strongest students.

Mike's work, like that of previous award winners, is diverse, and includes pioneering and highly cited work in time series analysis (an elegant use of Thomson's multitaper spectral analysis approach to detect spatiotemporal oscillations in the climate record and methods for smoothing temporal data), decadal climate variability (the term «Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» or «AMO» was coined by Mike in an interview with Science's Richard Kerr about a paper he had published with Tom Delworth of GFDL showing evidence in both climate model simulations and observational data for a 50 - 70 year oscillation in the climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measurements).

Regarding variability, the ISPM fails to mention that the IPCC found that the larger «natural climatic variability» is almost all in the direction of cooler temperatures, relative to «previous estimations», for the past millenium: «The additional variability shown in some new studies [since the Third Assesment Report] implies mainly cooler temperatures (predominantly in the 12th to 14th, 17th and 19th centuries), and only one new reconstruction suggests slightly warmer conditions (in the 11th century, but well within the uncertainty range indicated in the TAR).»

Consistent with the previous study, approximately two - thirds (64 %) of New Mexico business leaders feel that greater transparency is needed in regards to the disclosure of political contributions.

This result did not agree with findings reported in a previous study; the level of psychological distress was higher in partners who had negative perceptions regarding patients» treatment than in partners who had positive perceptions [14].

To conclude, the present study has extended the previous empirical findings regarding the importance of early childhood education in stimulating cognitive skills and improving learning outcomes.

The results of the current study with regards to gender differences in adolescent DSH / SA are consistent with previous findings, in that adolescent girls showed a higher prevalence of DSH5 28 and SA.7 29 30 With respect to the personality characteristics, low self - esteem has been associated with both DSH4 and SA.29 Cross-sectional surveys of adolescents have consistently found that depression is strongly correlated with DSH4 5 and SA.29 30 Tobacco smoking has also been previously identified to be a risk factor for DSH5 31 and SA, 32 33 along with alcohol use for DSH5 28 31 and SA.32 33 When we analysed the data according to gender, we found that tobacco smoking and alcohol use were especially important risk factors for DSH / SA in girls (tables 2 and 3).

Most previous studies had examined the effect of extreme parental ages in clinical samples with regard to a particular mental disorder; rarely had assessments been conducted across diagnostic categories.1

The mounting evidence regarding the findings from this study and our previous work6, 22,29,30 provides strong support for the self - regulation theory10 in explaining how the child behavior component of the COPE program positively affects maternal coping.

The review of previous studies results in investigation of the predictor variables of parenting stress, there was consistency in the results regarding the association between parent gender, age, child age, recently time diagnosis, educational level, monthly income and marital status.

The aforementioned findings regarding stress largely coincide with those of previous studies.

Regarding this one, research has supported the unidimensional structure of the measure as well as the convergent validity with other instruments.22 The Portuguese adaptation of the MHI - 5 was conducted by Ribeiro20 and replicates the psychometric properties identified in previous studies.

We selected the PCL - C score of 50 and above as the standard cut - off due to the influence of traditional Chinese culture on the frequency of healthcare workers» encounters with traumatic events and the DSM - IV - TR criteria for PTSD.2 Previous studies have provided valuable information regarding the prevalence of PTSD among doctors and nurses.28 — 31The prevalence of PTSD among the healthcare workers exposed physical violence in our study was similar to that reported in Atlanta.54 However, the prevalence rates of PTSD in these studies were different from the present study, 55 56 which might be attributed to differences in the studies» sample characteristics, designs, definitions and diagnostic criteria for PTSD, due to their varied cultural backgrounds.

Additional information regarding the study methods is available from previous reports.27, 28

This is consistent with previous studies reporting good general knowledge but lack of awareness about specific risks for an unborn child and specific benefits of quitting.11, 25 Attitudes regarding smoking and the health of the woman's baby, however, contradicted the apparent level of knowledge — significantly more smokers than non-smokers believed that «if you are exposed to a lot of smoke from other people you might as well keep smoking yourself».

The elevated caries risk found among disruptive children, who also had non-Nordic father, is in accordance with a previous Swedish study where it was concluded that the parental migration background should be regarded as a caries risk factor (Julihn et al. 2010).

For each developmental outcome, we subsequently outline why it is deemed important, why we expect maternal PPD to have a negative effect on the outcome, what has been found regarding to the effect of PPD on this outcome in previous studies, and finally what our study may add to the results of any previous studies.

In the previous study, adult antisocial behavior was diagnosed separately from child conduct disorder, which was the least informative disorder with regard to underlying externalizing liability.

Based on theoretical conceptions and previous research, as well as the results obtained in this study, we can formulate testable hypotheses regarding the interactions among these factors.

We found significant differences between published and unpublished studies (r = 0.19 for published studies versus r = 0.13 for unpublished studies; Z = -4.5, p < 0.001; Table 1), which is in accordance with previous findings with regard to publication bias (Van IJzendoorn 1998).

However, adolescents reporting more critical, negative, unsupportive relationships with their parents regarding their diabetes management had worse metabolic control, a finding that is consistent with that of previous studies.

Finally, cultural factors have not been considered in previous studies and is something that may explain some of the differences between countries, but further studies are needed in this regard.