Sentences with phrase «significant differences between the study»

Although there were no significant differences between the study groups with respect to the nurses» ratings of maternal involvement in the physical and emotional care of the children in the PICU, the children's nurses, who were blinded with respect to study group, rated the COPE mothers as being significantly more involved in their children's care in the pediatric unit.

Significant differences between the study group and the reference groups were found, relating to sense of coherence, locus of control, life satisfaction and coping resources.

Not exact matches

For five years I studied the daily activities of 233 wealthy people and 128 people living in poverty and I discovered there is an immense difference between the two groups, but one significant similarity.

In a carefully researched article (Yale Journal of Regulation, Summer 2001), Yale Law School professor Roberta Romano summarized studies on the economic impact of splitting the chair and CEO roles in U.S. companies (where combined CEO / chairs are the norm), finding that there is no statistically significant difference, in terms of stock price or accounting income, between companies that split the roles and those that don't.

A study of the results of separating the chair and CEO roles in Swiss companies by professors Markus M. Schmid and Heinz Zimmermann from the University of Basel reached similar conclusions: «We find no evidence of a systematic and significant difference in valuation between firms with combined and firms with separated functions.»

Just published in the journal the most careful, rigorous, and methodologically sound study ever conducted on this issue found numerous and significant differences between these groups — with the outcomes for children of h0m0 rated «suboptimal in almost every category

But a recent study by the Center for Survey Research (CSR) at the University of Virginia for Stewardship Journal suggests that some significant differences are emerging between the leaders of evangelical relief and development (R&D) agencies and their donor constituencies.

Many research studies have shown that there are significant differences in beliefs and attitudes between Jews, Catholics and Protestants, and even between various Protestant denominations.

While there was no effort made in the study to control the particular input of each information variable, it is interesting to note the significant difference between the contribution of the mass media to the information function compared to the attendance function.

However, when one group of researchers studied whey vs. rice protein head to head, they found that both whey and rice offered similar post-exercise body composition benefits... there were no statistically significant differences between the two groups.

In cross-cultural research by Ian St. James - Roberts, a child psychologist at the University of London, and several researchers in England and Denmark, studies of parenting techniques from around the world found no significant differences between the occurrence and persistence of colic and parenting styles.

Most studies of homebirth in other countries have found no statistically significant differences in perinatal outcomes between home and hospital births for women at low risk of complications.36, 37,39 However, a recent study in the United States showed poorer neonatal outcomes for births occurring at home or in birth centres.40 A meta - analysis in the same year demonstrated higher perinatal mortality associated with homebirth41 but has been strongly criticised on methodological grounds.5, 42 The Birthplace in England study, 43 the largest prospective cohort study on place of birth for women at low risk of complications, analysed a composite outcome, which included stillbirth and early neonatal death among other serious morbidity.

This study was a top news story across the UK when it was released yesterday, May 19, 2005, concluding that «there was no significant difference between any of the environmental impacts» for the diaper systems studied.

In some studies, no significant difference was found between women with implants who breastfed and those who did not.

Although breastfeeding in contemporary, industrialized nations is associated with higher social class, IQ differences between breastfed children and children not fed breast milk remain significant in most observational studies even after adjustments for class - related confounding factors (16, 17).

However, there was no significant difference in level of education between the three study 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

No significant differences between groups were observed at six to seven months in the risk of underweight (RR 0.92, 95 % CI [0.54 to 1.58], stunting (RR 1.20, 95 % CI [0.57 to 2.53]-RRB-, or wasting (RR 0.42, 95 % CI [0.12 to 1.50]; 1 study / 370 infants) or at nine to ten months (underweight RR 0.93, 95 % CI [0.64 to 1.36]; stunting RR 1.21, 95 % CI [0.62 to 2.37]; wasting RR 0.82, 95 % CI [0.39 to 1.71]; 1 study / 319 infants).

This study showed that there were no statistically significant differences between these two drugs in terms of increased milk production or side effects.

While the study found no significant difference in maternal - infant relatedness between gesture / signing groups and those who did not learn them, there were small positive changes in the mothers» responsiveness to their infants» needs and non-verbal cues.

Essentially, the study says that there is no long - term statistically significant difference between children who were breastfed and those that were formula fed, when external factors are controlled for.

An earlier study reported no significant difference in rates of lower respiratory illness and associated hospital admissions between those never breast fed to those breast fed for three months or more after adjustment for maternal smoking.6 However in this study, the breast feeding data were collected retrospectively and categorically at five years (never breast fed, < 1 month, 1 — 2 months, 3 + months), and the true effect may have been obscured.

It has been suggested as an aid in diagnosing melasma depth, but this is the first study to find a significant quantitative difference between viewing the skin under natural light versus under a black light when evaluating extent in those with subtle disease.

The main problem is that it is extremely difficult to measure electrical activity deep inside the brain of a living person, and differences between the brains of living people and those of the animals and cadavers that previous studies have used are significant.

The study also shows significant differences between the parks in terms of species richness.

There was no significant increase in adverse events with any of the treatments over the control group, nor was there any difference in malaria incidence between groups during the one year period after the study treatment was stopped, suggesting that monthly administration of DP is a safe and effective treatment for reducing malaria among infants in regions with year - round transmission and high resistance to antifolates.

For instance, a previous study discovered significant differences between male and female brains in four regions of white matter — and that female - to - male trans individuals who hadn't had sex reassignment surgery had white matter in these regions that more closely resembled a male brain.

«While most studies show there are no significant differences in clinical response between a biosimilar and the original product, some physicians and patient advocacy groups have expressed concern about how interchangeable they really are, and whether it is safe to switch from the brand name version to the biosimilar,» said lead author Dr Daniel Nagore of Progenika Biopharma, Derio, Spain.

Similarly, meta - analyses of studies of adults and older children have demonstrated no significant differences in outcomes between trial participants and nonparticipants who were treated similarly outside trials,» the authors write.

«The initial finding, and this was very much contrary to our expectation, was that there were no clinically significant differences between the effects of these two types of bread on any of the parameters that we measured,» says Eran Segal, a computational biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science and one of the study's senior authors.

Studies showed a significant difference in the distribution of frequency peaks in the two groups between the lying down position and after exercise.

The authors write that one explanation for lack of statistically significant differences between the treatment groups in all - type cancer incidence is that the study group had higher baseline vitamin D (serum 25 - hydroxyvitamin D) levels compared with the U.S. population.

Dr Duarte Sosa described how earlier studies had been unable to demonstrate significant differences in bone mass or calcium metabolism between the women of Norway and the women of Spain, and was proposing that the answer might instead lie in the strength of their bone material.

The research team evaluated the men at the start of the study, two months after the program and three months after the program and found significant differences between the men who had the intervention and those who did not.

The study found no significant differences between patients in both groups.

Recent studies highlighted significant differences between these two types of stem cells, although only a limited number of cell lines of different origins were analyzed.

The study was the first randomized - controlled trial to examine the potential benefits of the low fat diet on the management of MS.. The study found no significant differences between the two groups in brain lesions detected on MRI brain scans or on other measures of MS.. But while the number of trial participants was relatively small, study leaders believe the significantly improved fatigue symptoms merited further and larger studies of the diet.

«Although the study was small, the difference in TGF beta - 1 levels between those who had and those who had not had tamoxifen was enormous and statistically significant,» says Colletta.

Although both study groups showed a statistically significant decrease at six months compared with baseline -LRB--14.1 mmHg for renal denervation compared to -11.7 mmHg for the sham treatment control), the difference of -2.29 mmHg in office systolic blood pressure between the two arms was not significant.

«The results of this study found no significant difference in the incidence and severity of AMS between prophylactic dosing of acetaminophen and ibuprofen,» noted the study's lead investigator Buddha Basnyat, MD, from the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Kathmandu, Nepal, and the Himalayan Rescue Association and the Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, University of Oxford, UK, and his co-investigators.

The study group had normal structural MRI findings, but MRS results showed significant differences in the biochemical maturation of white matter between the term and preterm infants, suggesting a disruption in the timing and synchronization of white and gray matter maturation.

The study also found significant differences between DupB - / - and DupB + / - apes in 12 distinct brain regions, with the largest clusters within the frontal lobe.

The original study — which is the most comprehensive look at top - performing athletes to date — also revealed significant psychological and life history differences between superstars and their elite counterparts.

While second - stage results showed no significant differences between participants continuing to receive weekly doses of the active drug, those receiving biweekly doses and those shifted to placebo, Kimball notes that, since it is typical for the severity of HS symptoms to increase and decrease and because the study protocol required treatment discontinuation for participants whose symptoms stopped responding to the drug, larger scale studies will be required to better define the ideal length and frequency of treatment.

The researchers found a statistically significant difference in overall survival between the study groups, with a median of 22.8 months in the gemcitabine group compared with 20.2 months in the observation group.

Studies published since the early 1990s, however, have produced more inconsistent results: a slight majority has confirmed earlier conclusions, but almost as many have found few significant differences in reading speed or comprehension between paper and screens.

This study shows that no significant difference exists with respect to generating employer interest between individuals with community college and for - profit degrees.

In a report of the study's findings, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on March 6, researchers compared professional pest management treatments plus education with education alone and found no significant differences in asthma symptoms or mouse allergen exposure between the two groups.

The significant difference in outcome achieved by transplantation of hGDAsBMP versus hGDAsCNTF demonstrates clearly that not all astrocytes are equivalent in respect to their therapeutic value, and this appears to be the first study demonstrating functional differences between different human astrocyte populations with respect to repairing the adult central nervous system.

RESULTS: A significant difference in the quality of the T - cell responses between patients in Study 201 and those in earlier studies of AN1792 was noted.