Sentences with phrase «absence of a comparison group»

Limitations include the absence of a comparison group.

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The absence of comparison subjects from these hospitals, which may have had fewer resources for managing complicated clinical situations, may have biased the analysis against the home birth group.

These results are similar to those found in other sustained nurse home visiting studies, 1 14 although the intervention impacted on a broader range of domains of the home environment for this subgroup of women than has been reported previously.1 An increasing body of evidence from both animal and human studies suggests that stress in pregnancy has significant impacts on developmental and behavioural outcomes for children.29 While the mental development of children of mothers who were not distressed antenatally in both the intervention and comparison groups was comparable with the general population, children's development was particularly poor in the distressed subgroup in the absence of the MECSH intervention, suggesting that sustained nurse home visiting may be particularly effective in ameliorating some adverse developmental impacts for children of mothers with antenatal distress.

Specifically, in the absence of findings from a comparison group at low risk for antisocial behavior, our findings could alternatively be interpreted as suggesting either that the intervention produced compensatory but abnormally high elevations in cortisol levels before peer entry or that the intervention normalizes an already perturbed HPA axis.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) Individuals with a history of at least 3 episodes of major depression, a current diagnosis of major depression, a history of suicidal ideation, and absence of co-occurring disorders were eligible for the study.

A major problem for the evaluation was the lack of a comparison group, or baseline data, to measure what would have happened in the absence of income management.

A major problem for the evaluation was the lack of a comparison group, or baseline data, to measure what would have happened in the absence of income management... the overall evidence about the effectiveness of income management in isolation from other NTER measures was difficult to assess... The evaluation findings would have greater strength if these views were supplemented by empirical indicators that showed evidence of the changes reported by the various stakeholders.

Over the course of 1 year, the comparison group of mothers followed a relatively flat change trajectory (the expected developmental trend in absence of an intervention), whereas Home - Start mothers displayed positive changes regarding how they felt about themselves as a parent.