Sentences with phrase «control of a group of child»

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What is the % of households with a child under 5 visited by a CHP in the treatment group vs. the control (in both Living Goods» and BRAC's networks)?

According to a 2017 analysis of fatal and nonfatal childhood firearm injuries compiled by researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, black children face the highest rates of firearm mortality — a difference largely driven by black youth being more likely to be shooting victims than children from other racial groups.

The children of light who do not take sufficient cognizance of the expansive character of man's freedom whereby an individual's or a group's self - interest may take the form of inordinate or unreasonable claims, believe that our impulses are manageable and amenable to rational control.

The decisions that a man makes about where he will live, how he will furnish his home (the women's magazines, of course, will make this decision in co-operation with the furniture manufacturers), how he will discipline his children, what radio and TV commentators he will listen to, what newspapers and magazines he will subscribe to, and what organizations he will join in his community — all of these daily decisions are, to an inestimable but unquestionable degree, influenced by the legislation, education, and plain ballyhoo daily propagated by these groups and the power centers that control them.

Rockenstein in 1966 and Klos in 1978 studied the effects of selected Christian children's programs on informational and attitudinal tests administered to selected groups of children in controlled laboratory situations before and after viewing.

From infancy children are raised in a state - controlled daycare in which children of the same age are grouped together and «no mother knows her own child» (Republic 460c).

Female consumers represent a driving economic powerhouse, controlling 65 %, or approximately $ 20 trillion annually, of global spending and more than 80 % of U.S. spending, according to the Harvard Business Review and the Continuum's Women and Children Research Group.

At the end of the year, only 2 percent of the children in the control group were securely attached, while 61 percent of the children in the treatment group were securely attached — a huge difference, and one that had enormous implications for the future happiness and success of those children.

The particular focus of How Children Succeed was the role that a group of factors often referred to as noncognitive or «soft» skills — qualities like perseverance, conscientiousness, self - control, and optimism — play in the challenges poor children face and the strategies that might help them Children Succeed was the role that a group of factors often referred to as noncognitive or «soft» skills — qualities like perseverance, conscientiousness, self - control, and optimism — play in the challenges poor children face and the strategies that might help them children face and the strategies that might help them succeed.

The results of a recent randomized trial of CSRP showed that children who spent their prekindergarten year in a CSRP Head Start classroom had, at the end of the school year, substantially higher attention skills, greater impulse control, and better performance on executive - function tasks than did children in a control group.

It is unlikely that true randomized controlled trials (RCTs) will be performed, since they would entail random selection of children into heading groups.

And vaccine side effects are not compared to large «control» groups of unvaccinated children.

When researchers randomly assigned some primary school students to perform three acts of kindness each week, those kids became more popular than did children in a control group (Layous et al 2012).

In one study comparing two groups of preterm infants, researchers found that children who'd received skin - to - skin contact in the first weeks postpartum had developed, by age 10, more healthy stress response systems, improved sleep patterns, and better cognitive control (Feldman et al 2014).

Verbal IQ deficits among children of mothers with lower education compared with those who completed university were somewhat smaller in the intervention group than in the control group: 5.2 (95 % CI: 3.1, 7.3) vs 6.5 (95 % CI: 5.6, 7.4) points deficit among mothers with partial university education and 10.7 (95 % CI: 8.4, 12.9) vs 11.7 (95 % CI: 10.2, 13.2) points among those with secondary education or less.

Mean verbal IQ scores of children in the lowest maternal education category in the intervention were also substantially higher than those of their counterparts in the control group.

One randomized controlled trial comparing home - visited families with control participants who received other community services found a statistically significant difference in mean depressive symptoms at two years post-enrollment, but this contrast was nonsignificant at three years post - enrollment.15 A second study of Early Head Start found no differences in depressive symptoms between intervention and control group participants post-intervention, although a difference was detected at a longer - term follow - up prior to children's enrollment in kindergarten.10 Other randomized controlled trial studies have not found effects of home visitation on maternal depressive symptoms.12, 16,17

In addition, when compared to control groups, children of teen mothers who participated in a home visiting program showed gains in cognitive development.

An evaluation of Hawaii's Healthy Start program found no differences between experimental and control groups in maternal life course (attainment of educational and life goals), substance abuse, partner violence, depressive symptoms, the home as a learning environment, parent - child interaction, parental stress, and child developmental and health measures.25 However, program participation was associated with a reduction in the number of child abuse cases.

In another trial of the same program, participants were twice as likely to be employed as the control group at their child's second birthday.

A number of model programs were unable to document program impacts on parenting and home environment factors that are predictive of children's early learning and development through control group designs.

In addition, compared to control groups, teen mothers who participated in a home visiting program and received comprehensive case management had fewer opened cases of child abuse or neglect.

According to an August 2005 report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the incidence of cavities in children ages two to five increased 15.2 percent from 1988 - 1994 to 1999 - 2002, the only child and adolescent age group to exhibit increased tooth decay.

The analysis of the socio - demographic, prenatal and natal parameters of mothers and newborns in the intervention group and control group (Table 1) did not reveal any statistically significant differences in terms of age, living area, education level, mother's profession, number of children, medical follow - up, number of prenatal visits, Apgar score and birth weight.

Findings from the National Early Head Start Research and Evaluation project, a rigorous Congressionally - mandated study, indicate that the program had modest but positive impacts on EHS children at age three in cognitive, language, and social - emotional development, compared to a control group.xxiii In addition, their parents scored higher than control group parents on such aspects of the home environment as parenting behavior and knowledge of infant - toddler development.

Values were derived from regressing T on daily paternal caregiving, controlling for time of saliva collection, usual wake time (AM), sleep quality, psychosocial stress, and number of children, with fathers who reported no involvement in childcare as the comparison group.

Values are adjusted for time of saliva collection and usual wake time (AM) and are derived from regressing the change in T on fatherhood, stratified by child age, with men who were not fathers in 2005 and 2009 as the comparison group, and controlling for sleep quality and psychosocial stress (Tables S5 and S6).

The children of divorcing parents who participated in the program benefited in several ways versus a control group of children whose parents did not participate in the program.

Better management of the operation, reducing the indirect rate from the district, auditor strict analysis of financial controls, and joining a co-op buying group are all ways to control the PMC and NOT have to run the food service operation on the backs of children and parents.

The fathers of the control group were also offered a face - to - face 40 - minute training session about child care, such as accident prevention and vaccination, but discussion was focused on the health benefits of breast milk rather than the management of breastfeeding.

Control: standard postnatal maternity care that consisted of routine perinatal care according to the type of delivery, group postnatal lactation education provided by a midwife or LC, 1 - on - 1 assistance with breastfeeding if problems arose and time permitted, and postdischarge follow - up, either at the outpatient clinic of the delivery hospital or at the nearest Maternal and Child Health Centre.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — As President Barack Obama tried to pass gun control legislation after a young man with an AR - 15 semiautomatic rifle killed 20 children in a Connecticut elementary school, a Tennessee group started working to give away the same type of gun.

In a study of 78 children whose doctors had recommended tonsillectomies to treat sleep - disordered breathing and 27 who were scheduled for other kinds of surgery, Chervin's group found that not only did the tonsil kids have a higher incidence of ADHD than the control group but that a year after the surgery their behavior and concentration had significantly improved.

The study consisted of 30 children ages 8 - 14, with 17 randomized to an experimental group and 13 in the control group.

Despite the intervention's brevity, the black children who received the affirmative assignment scored one fourth to one third of a grade point higher in that course than the black control group at the end of the term, and the difference showed up in other classes, too.

She described the research findings — based on a small study of 40 children being treated for concussion and a control group — as a major first step.

With this measure they successfully identified 90 percent of children with concussions and 95 percent of children in the control group who did not have concussions.

Comparison of the OIT - treated children with a control group of 154 peanut - allergic children who had avoided peanut showed that OIT - treated children were 19 times more likely to successfully incorporate peanut into their diets.

The analysis revealed that, compared to children in the control group, bipolar patients and unaffected offspring of bipolar parents had genetic alterations that can influence the response to stress.

One group of children had ADHD, and the other group was typically developing (control).

The guidelines group makes five recommendations to help physicians detect heart failure in children; 16 recommendations to assist in the diagnosis; and 10 recommendations for the early management of heart failure to bring it under control.

For a control group, he used hundreds of other children also in intensive care, also on the brink of death, but whose pulse and breathing hadn't been interrupted for more than 30 seconds.

When Esseily and her colleagues studied their data, they found that the children who laughed at the antics of the adults were able to repeat the action themselves more successfully than those who didn't laugh, as well as those who were included in the «humorless» control group.

Children and teenagers with Dravet syndrome, a devastating form of the seizure disorder, received an oral solution of cannabidiol, a component of marijuana, while a control group got a placebo.

In particular, he criticises the study's lack of controls — children who received no hormone and whose growth could be compared with that of the treated group.

«We can use a group of children who do not play video games as a control group, in order to make a comparison.

Children in the control group, who were receiving standard community - based early intervention, had an average monthly cost of about $ 5,200 / child.

The children in the active temperature control group also used cooling blankets or ECMO but their body temperatures were maintained in the normal range of 96.8 - 99.5 degrees Fahrenheit.

In this study, 56 «uncooperative» children (aged 7 to 9 years) attending a dental clinic at the Royal College of Dentistry, King Saud University in Saudi Arabia were randomly assigned to receive either audiovisual distraction (watching their favourite cartoons using the eyeglass system Merlin i - theatre ™) or no distraction (control group).

One recent study found that out of 93 children with defects associated with Möbius syndrome, 34 per cent of those infants had been exposed to misoprostol, compared with just 4.3 per cent of the 279 infants in a control group.