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Study participants were randomly assigned to one of two groups: those who were allowed to drink diet beverages, such as diet soft drinks, teas and flavoured waters, or those who were in a control group that drank water only.

In addition, there was no effect on breastfeeding duration when the pacifier was introduced at 1 month of age.280 A more recent systematic review found that the highest level of evidence (ie, from clinical trials) does not support an adverse relationship between pacifier use and breastfeeding duration or exclusivity.281 The association between shortened duration of breastfeeding and pacifier use in observational studies likely reflects a number of complex factors such as breastfeeding difficulties or intent to wean.281 A large multicenter, randomized controlled trial of 1021 mothers who were highly motivated to breastfeed were assigned to 2 groups: mothers advised to offer a pacifier after 15 days and mothers advised not to offer a pacifier.

Study participants were randomly assigned to one of three treatment groups for six months: (1) oral estradiol and progesterone at a dose similar to that in many birth control pills (16 participants); (2) transdermal estradiol, better known as the estrogen patch, at a physiological replacement dose with cyclic progesterone (13 athletes); or (3) no estrogen (19 subjects).

Outside experts are more cautious, but still impressed, particularly because the work was done as a randomized control trial — in which people were randomly assigned to either an intervention or a control group.

The youths were randomly assigned to the program or to a 2 - month waitlist, which served as a control group.

For one thing, as the researchers openly acknowledge, they didnâ $ ™ t conduct a baseline brain scan of the participants before they started the Pay It Forward game, so itâ $ ™ s possible, though unlikely given that participants were randomly assigned to the gratitude and control groups, that the participants who performed the gratitude task simply had more neural sensitivity to gratitude already, not because they performed the gratitude task.

For the new study, researchers randomly assigned 39 nine - month - old babies to be exposed to music or serve as a control group.

Members of a separate, exercise control group at the rehab center, assigned to complete standard 30 - minute moderate - intensity workout sessions, have been watching wistfully as the interval trainers leave the lab before them.

In a study of fourth - and fifth - grade students, we found that those randomly assigned to learn the WWWDOT framework became, as compared to their pre-test and to a control group, more aware of the need to evaluate information on the internet for credibility and better able to evaluate the trustworthiness of websites on multiple dimensions (Zhang & Duke, 2011).

Additionally, at the discretion of the DOE, two schools initially assigned to the treatment group were moved to the control group, and four schools initially designated as control schools were moved to the treatment group and subsequently voted to participate in the program.

As part of the long - running study on the Abecedarian Project, an intervention program for poor children in North Carolina, researchers have found that children in the program showed fewer symptoms of depression than those who were randomly assigned to a control group.

We randomly assigned groups of students to receive free tickets to see a play or to remain in their school to serve as the control.

We will randomly assign these interventions to teachers who enroll in the study, and will set aside 1 / (X +1) of the teachers to serve as a control group.

and 83 percent of the students who were assigned by lottery to see the play could correctly identify them as Hamlet's friends, compared to 45 percent of the control group.

As is the case for the imbalance in the decline - to - participate rates across families assigned to the control and treatment groups, the inclusion in the treatment group of children not randomly assigned to treatment nullifies the assumption justified by random assignment of equivalence of the treatment and control children at the outset of the study.

Adverse weather prevented several school groups from seeing performances of A Christmas Carol, and we have treated those events as exogenous and assigned those groups to the control group.

A total of 437 eighth graders were randomly assigned by classroom to the treatment group, which utilized the computer game DimensionM as a supplement to regular classroom instruction, or to the control group, which received regular class instruction without any computer activities.

Approximately 50 schools recruited in two cohorts will be randomly assigned; half to receive the program, and half to a «business - as - usual» control group.

The schools assigned to the control group will continue with instruction as usual.

To analyze the experimental question data, I modeled state education policy makers» policy preferences (0 = support; 1 = oppose) as a function of the control / treatment group to which they were randomly assigned.

Barrera - Osorio and his team created three groups of schools in Cambodia and randomly assigned one group as control, one as providing merit - based aid, one as providing need - based aid.

Schools will be randomly assigned, with 50 schools serving as a control group and 50 treatment group schools receiving a principal professional development intervention provided by the University of Washington Center for Educational Leadership.

In the proposed rule, we defined designated record set as «a group of records under the control of a covered entity from which information is retrieved by the name of the individual or by some identifying number, symbol, or other identifying particular assigned to the individual and which is used by the covered entity to make decisions about the individual.»

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In a randomized control trial, 659 sixth and seventh grade African - American male and female adolescents, mean age 11.8, were stratified by gender and age and randomly assigned to receive one of three 8 - hour curricula: an abstinence curriculum, a safer sex curriculum or a health promotion curriculum (which served as the control group).

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This trial had a sample of 28 rural towns and small cities («communities») located in Iowa and Pennsylvania, each of which contained one school district with one high school and one or more middle schools.6 The communities were grouped into matched pairs based on school district size and geographic location, and then one member of each pair was randomly assigned to participate in PROSPER and the other to continue school and community services as usual (i.e., the control group).

As reported previously in greater detail, 3 — 5 within each randomization site, newborns were assigned randomly, in blocks of 4, to intervention or control groups of ∼ 200 newborns each, by using sealed envelopes provided to sites by the evaluation team.

Tang et al. (2007) had an experimental group do 5 days of integrative body — mind training (including mindfulness meditation as one component) while a control group was assigned to relaxation training.

Children were matched on characteristics such as tribal heritage, school, grade level, and teacher ratings and then randomly assigned to either the 2 - phase FAST program or the non-FAST control group.

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).

For example, in our longitudinal, multi-site study of adolescents at risk for depression, we found that teens who participated in a group cognitive - behavioral prevention program were less likely to experience a depressive disorder at nine -(Garber et al., 2009) and 32 -(Beardslee et al., in press) months follow - up, relative to at - risk teens who were assigned to a treatment - as - usual control group.

Participants were randomly assigned to a parent training intervention or a control group receiving services as usual.

Methods: Twenty patients with unipolar depression were recruited and randomly assigned into two groups (1: intervention, exercise program, n = 14; 2: control, treatment - as - usual, n = 6).

As illustrated in Figure 1, in this cluster randomized controlled field trial, HCMO randomly assigned the eight school divisions to either a treatment group that received ROE in the 2002 — 2003 school year (ROE1; 445 students) or a wait - list control group (315 students).

There were three randomly - assigned conditions — an opportunity to use our staff as consultants once a year (the control group), a couples group that emphasized parent - child relationships during the open - ended part of the evenings (the more traditional approach), or a couples group that focused more on the relationship between the parents during the open - ended parts.

Half of the schools were randomly assigned to an intervention group; the other half served as the control group.

Using an intent - to - treat (ITT) design, multivariate regressions suggest that females from families randomly assigned to intervention in early childhood scored lower than those in the control condition on perceptions of dating violence as normative, beliefs about IPV prevalence, exposure to IPV in their own peer group, and expected sanction behaviors for IPV perpetration and victimization.