Sentences with phrase «assessed as a control group»

One third practiced Viniyoga, one third took a mindfulness class, and the rest were assessed as a control group.

Not exact matches

«We hypothesized that yoga participants would show lower depression severity over time as assessed by the Quick Inventory of Depression Symptomatology (QIDS), as well as better social and role functioning, better general health perceptions and physical functioning, and less physical pain relative to the control group,» said Dr. Uebelacker.

Here, we separately investigated the modulation of 3 default mode subnetworks, as identified with group independent component analysis, by comparing Alzheimer's disease patients to healthy controls and by assessing connectivity changes over time.

Transfer of learning was assessed 1 week after completing the interactive video activities by all of the students participating in the interactive video activities as well as the control group.

The utility has automated four of its five substations (one was not touched in order to allow it to act as a control group to assess gains made in the project) and created a broadband - over-powerline network that reaches 46,000 power meters.

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Although the mean PPVT - R scores were very low, correlational analyses indicated that this test was valid for this sample in relation to maternal education, ego maturity, depression, and the HOME.49 The mean for the total HOME scores was similar to other lower SES samples assessed at 12 months in North Carolina, Texas, and Arkansas.50 Although the majority (80.2 %) of the women were classified as minimally (scores of 0 — 9) or mildly (10 — 16) depressed, 17.5 % were moderately depressed (17 — 29), and 2.0 % severely depressed (30 or higher), proportions comparable to the incidence of depression in the control group of another low SES sample.51

A strength of the present study is that the effects of the intervention on alcohol use (disorders), depression, mental health symptoms and intervention satisfaction are assessed in comparison to a waiting list control group, as well as explored relative to a comparable «alcohol - only» intervention regarding its differential effects.

Participants in the control group at the beginning and at the end of the study completed the same questionnaires as those in the intervention group in order to assess the effect of stress on their health status.

Although there was only a small positive effect of the COPE program on maternal reports of overall parental stress during the PICU stay, as assessed with the Parental Stressor Scale: PICU (Table 4), mothers in the COPE group reported significantly less stress regarding staff communication than did control group mothers (COPE: mean score = 4.3, SD = 3.9; control: mean score = 6.0, SD = 5.9; P <.05).

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However, the outcomes were measured only 1 — 2 weeks after the baby was born (1 +).12 The introduction of the Nursing Child Assessment Teaching Scale programme in the NICU made no significant difference to parental stress levels and maternal — infant interactions when assessed at discharge and at 3 months after discharge (1 +).20 One RCT found that coaching parents on how to interact with their preterm infant made no difference to knowledge of care, sensitivity to the infant or satisfaction in parenting compared with the control group (1 ---RRB-.21 However, this may have been confounded by the amount of contact that the control mothers had with the researchers, as these mothers reported that they enjoyed having someone show an interest in them.

Individuals were selected for group treatment based on... the presence of PTSD symptoms as measured by The Posttraumatic Stress Diagnostic Scale, an external locus of control determined by the Internal and External Locus of Control Scale, low self - esteem as per the Self - Efficacy Scale, and hopelessness, as assessed through the Hopelessnesscontrol determined by the Internal and External Locus of Control Scale, low self - esteem as per the Self - Efficacy Scale, and hopelessness, as assessed through the HopelessnessControl Scale, low self - esteem as per the Self - Efficacy Scale, and hopelessness, as assessed through the Hopelessness Scale.

This group of leading school - based - prevention experts and youth - development experts released a framework for incorporating social and emotional learning in schools, and the group listed the emotional skills necessary for emotional competence as «identifying and labeling feelings, expressing feelings, assessing the intensity of feelings, managing feelings, delaying gratification, controlling impulses, and reducing stress.»

(3) As reported in the previous analysis, no differences were found between the experimental and control groups in a wide range of social, family, and parental variables assessed at baseline.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) Participants were randomized, by pairs, into the Individual Family Psychoeducation (IFP, otherwise known as Individual Family - Psychoeducational Psychotherapy (PEP)-RRB- plus treatment as usual (IFP + TAU, n = 10) condition, or into a waitlist - control condition plus TAU (WLC + TAU, n = 10) Measures included the Children's Interview for Psychiatric Syndromes — Child and Parent Forms; the Children's Depression Rating Scale — Revised (CDRS - R) and Mania Rating Scale (MRS) in order to assess severity of mood impairment; and Mood Severity Index (MSI), which measured overall mood severity.

MIT using bibliotherapy was chosen as a comparison group because: (a) it seemed inappropriate to withhold treatment by assigning children to wait - list groups when the efficacy of moderately intensive parent training is well - established; (b) comparisons to alternative treatments provide stronger tests of treatment efficacy than do comparisons to untreated controls; and (c) WLC cause problems in assessing outcomes because WLCs generate a disproportionate number of dropouts that are difficult to address in «completer» analyses (Werba et al., 2006).

To examine whether the BI-anxiety relationship was moderated by any of the family environment variables and to assess whether each family environment variable predicted anxiety at follow - up after controlling for BI as well as baseline anxiety, the above logistic regressions were repeated, this time including BI group and the interaction between BI group.

To examine whether the BI-anxiety relationship was moderated by any of the family environment variables and to assess whether each family environment variable predicted anxiety at follow - up after controlling for BI as well as baseline anxiety, the above NB regressions were repeated, this time including BI group and the interaction between BI group.

To this end, we assessed pre - and perinatal risk factors (pregnancy duration, birth weight, maternal smoking during pregnancy), transgenerational influences (parental ADHD, for ADHD - only and ADHD + ODD parental warmth and parental criticism as well), and postnatal risk factors (socioeconomic status [SES], adverse life events, deviant peer affiliations) in three groups: ADHD + ODD, ADHD - only, and typically developing controls.