Sentences with phrase «assessed in a longitudinal study»

Abstract: Semen quality in dogs has not been assessed in a longitudinal study that includes endpoints of female fertility and pregnancy.

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Parental depression and child temperament: assessing child to parent effects in a longitudinal population study

«It would be unethical to make adolescents have their first drink in the course of a study, so this variable requires a longitudinal epidemiological study or experimental animal research to assess drinking behavior.

Sui and colleagues used data from the Aerobics Center Longitudinal Study to assess levels of total cholesterol, low - density lipoprotein cholesterol, high - density lipoprotein cholesterol, non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglycerides in a total of 11,418 individuals who were observed during health examinations between 1970 and 2006 at the Cooper Clinic, Dallas, TX.

«These findings clearly indicate the need for further study,» said Dr. Lipshultz, while pointing to one of the study's key conclusions: «Subclinical differences in left ventricular structure and function with specific in - utero antiviral exposures indicate the need for a longitudinal study to assess long - term cardiac risk and cardiac monitoring recommendations.»

«Finally, as environmental factors that affect the susceptibility, triggering and progression of ALS remain largely unknown, we contend future studies are needed to evaluate longitudinal trends in exposure measurements, assess newer and nonpersistent chemicals, consider pathogenic mechanisms, and assess phenotypic variations,» the study conclude.

In this longitudinal study, investigators examined associations between childhood muscular fitness (strength, endurance, and power) and metabolic syndrome — the latter assessed once they reached adulthood.

In a longitudinal population - based study, childhood SES, assessed from fathers» occupation or education, was a robust predictor of incident diabetes, especially among women, which had a cumulative risk effect for both childhood SES and adult BMI (98).

Publishing in JAMA Pediatrics scientists report results from a systematic review and meta - analysis of longitudinal studies that assessed initial use of e-cigarettes and subsequent cigarette smoking.

Participants in the study came from the Teen - Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery (Teen - LABS), a study designed to assess the short - and long - term safety and usefulness of bariatric surgery in teens.

A longitudinal test of video game violence influences on dating and aggression: A 3 - year longitudinal study of adolescents Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a

The National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) analyzed national data2 from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS - K), to assess impact, prevalence and risk factors for chronic early absence.

The report relies on data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study: Kindergarten Cohort, a nationally representative sample of kindergartners who were assessed in reading, mathematics, and general knowledge / science skills at six time points during the years 1998 — 2004.

Through site visits at nearly all of those schools and analysis of longitudinal student data, the study aimed to assess whether schools with low API status and growth scores were truly underperforming (as best as possible given the limitations of the data), to get schools» perspective of their own performance, and to assess the effectiveness of the Similar Students Measure (SSM) in identifying underperforming schools.

In order to assess the clinical significance of cerebellar volume and CCF volume as prognostic indicators, further cohort and longitudinal studies are needed.

Large long term longitudinal studies in which children with GD and their families are randomized to treatment with various therapeutic modalities and assessed across multiple measures of physical and social emotional health are desperately needed and should have been launched long ago.

This is in line with findings from the New York Child Longitudinal Study in which OAD predicted young adult depression, social phobia, and generalized anxiety.3 Together, these findings suggest that the DSM - IV GAD criteria are insufficient for assessing the full range of «generalized anxiety» in children and adolescents and fail to identify anxious children at risk for a range of later disorders.

When the longitudinal study was funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse in 1985, school - based substance abuse prevention research trials had been limited to studies of social influence resistance curricula provided to students in grades 5 through 10.3 In this context, reviewers desired that the study include a condition assessing effects of only 2 years of intervention in the late elementary grades as well as effects of the full intervention, since they questioned whether intervention in the early elementary grades was necessarin 1985, school - based substance abuse prevention research trials had been limited to studies of social influence resistance curricula provided to students in grades 5 through 10.3 In this context, reviewers desired that the study include a condition assessing effects of only 2 years of intervention in the late elementary grades as well as effects of the full intervention, since they questioned whether intervention in the early elementary grades was necessarin grades 5 through 10.3 In this context, reviewers desired that the study include a condition assessing effects of only 2 years of intervention in the late elementary grades as well as effects of the full intervention, since they questioned whether intervention in the early elementary grades was necessarIn this context, reviewers desired that the study include a condition assessing effects of only 2 years of intervention in the late elementary grades as well as effects of the full intervention, since they questioned whether intervention in the early elementary grades was necessarin the late elementary grades as well as effects of the full intervention, since they questioned whether intervention in the early elementary grades was necessarin the early elementary grades was necessary.

Her history of physical victimization had been assessed previously (1991 - 1994) in the longitudinal study («When you were a child or teenager... were you ever physically hurt by a parent or someone else — like hit, slapped, beaten, shaken, burned, or anything like that?

To assess physical aggression, we selected items from rating scales that were used in longitudinal studies with older children.1 A number of these longitudinal studies have shown that 3 items were sufficient to assess reliably physical aggression in children.1, 46 Mothers were asked to indicate whether the child never (0), sometimes (1), or often (2) hits, bites, kicks; fights; and bullies others (scores on this 3 - item scale may range from 0 to 6).

The longitudinal design of this study highlights also the usefulness of assessing different forms of antisocial behavior and affective problems at key developmental periods to identify underlying liabilities leading to APP in young adulthood.

This is, to our knowledge, the first study that assessed the prospective longitudinal and bidirectional association between depressive symptoms and academic, social and emotional self - efficacy in a large adolescent sample.

Two longitudinal studies of children's social and emotional development in not - at - risk middle - class two - parent families were started in the mid - and late 1970s: the Bielefeld project, or Project 1, which started with the birth of the infants, and the Regensburg project, or Project 2, which started when the infants were 11 months old.19 The children's experiences in the domains of attachment and exploration were assessed in infancy, childhood and adolescence, with both mother and father using standardized or free observations.

Also, longitudinal studies may be conducted to assess the predictive validity of romantic inclination in the development of romantic relationship.

In this longitudinal study (three family visits; time interval: 1 year), pubertal development, body satisfaction, and desired body changes of 106 boys and 108 girls were assessed.

This study examined the relation between growth in internalizing symptoms and longitudinal patterns of antisocial behavior in a sample of 283 inner - city males and their caregivers assessed as part of a longitudinal developmental risk study.

Of particular interest were the prospective longitudinal cohort studies in which mothers were recruited during their pregnancy or postpartum period, and the children were assessed at regular intervals.

The relationship characteristics support, negative interaction, and power were assessed in a 5 - wave longitudinal study of early to middle (ages 12 — 16) and middle to late adolescence (ages 16 — 20).

Participants were 379 boys and girls assessed at 15 and 16 years of age, who completed surveys as part of a larger longitudinal study in their health / physical education classes in a school district in Central Pennsylvania.

Using a longitudinal sample of boys (N = 503) repeatedly assessed eight times across 6 - month intervals in childhood (in a range between 6 and 13 years), the current study is the first to use novel within - individual change (fixed effects) models to examine whether parents tend to increase their use of maladaptive parenting strategies following an increase in their son's externalizing problems, or vice versa.

This longitudinal study is the first to examine developmental trajectories of social anxiety in a nonclinical sample aged 9 to 21 years and simultaneously test whether conceptually relevant individual level variables assessing cognition, social competence, and temperament discriminated between the trajectories.

The first aim of the present controlled, prospective longitudinal study was to assess whether ART couples with singleton pregnancies differed from fertile controls with spontaneous singleton pregnancies in the quality and change of marital relations during the first year of parenting.

Growing Up Today Study 2 (GUTS 2) is a longitudinal cohort study that was established in 2004 to assess associations of diet and activity to height velocity and weight gain among a nationwide sample of adolescents in the United StStudy 2 (GUTS 2) is a longitudinal cohort study that was established in 2004 to assess associations of diet and activity to height velocity and weight gain among a nationwide sample of adolescents in the United Ststudy that was established in 2004 to assess associations of diet and activity to height velocity and weight gain among a nationwide sample of adolescents in the United States.