All residents who participated in outpatient
clinics during the study period were eligible.
One resident was excluded because she was absent for the preintervention test, and saw no breastfeeding infants in
the clinics during the study period.
Residents were excluded from analysis if they neither took the preintervention knowledge test nor saw any breastfeeding infants in the outpatient
clinics during the study period.
Not exact matches
Breastfeeding mothers who brought their infants to the
clinic more than once
during the
study period were contacted only once.
One caveat to the
study is that because helicopter transports brought a greater number of patients to Cleveland
Clinic from surrounding rural areas
during the course of the
study period, it is possible that the observed trends reflect changes in the hospital's patient population.
However, many clients in the region use the teaching hospital as their regular
clinic, and the relative proportion of purebred to mixed - breed clients seen
during the
study period reflect the United States national average [27] suggesting that this may not be a sizable limitation.
During the one - year
period of surveillance (2013) of this
study, 27.6 % of French Bulldogs under veterinary care did not have any disorders recorded and were instead either presented for routine or prophylactic veterinary care or did not attend the veterinary
clinic at all.
The National Comorbidity
Study Replication, for example, found that
during a 12 month
period - and among those receiving treatment for mental health concerns - the median number of
clinic visits was 2.9 (Wang et al., 2005).
Members examined
during December 1995 were not included because survey response rates are lower
during this holiday
period.25 One week after the
clinic visit, these members were mailed a
study questionnaire about health behaviors and adverse childhood experiences.
Second, fewer women visited the
clinic for antenatal care
during the recruitment
period than expected, resulting in fewer than expected participants, hence the power of the
study to detect differences in characteristics between smokers and non-smokers was reduced — the
study only had adequate power to detect differences of about 23 % between groups.