Sentences with phrase «controlled longitudinal research»

Carefully controlled longitudinal research that sheds light on causal relationships is of particular importance.

Not exact matches

The strongest research methods for psychological studies are: qualitative findings versus quantitative; experimental rather than descriptive or correlational; controlled - experiment, meta - analysis, and observation designs over archival, case study, computational modeling, content analysis, field experiment, interview, neuroimaging, quasi experiment, self - report inventory, random sample survey, or twin study; and prospective (where subjects are recruited prior to the proposed independent effects being administered) and longitudinal (where subjects are studied at multiple time points) rather than retrospective or cross-section study.

Although various studies propose a connection between childhood ADHD and obesity, «this is the first population - based longitudinal study to examine the association between ADHD and development of obesity using ADHD cases and controls of both sexes derived from the same birth cohort,» says lead author Seema Kumar, M.D., pediatrician and researcher at Mayo Clinic Children's Research Center.

More recently, Esteban extended his research with two new grants: one supporting a longitudinal study of symptoms of depression among Caucasian, African - American and Latino children; and the other supporting an evaluation of a randomized control trial of the Family Coping Skills Program in a population of low - income Latina mothers.

Examples may include systems science approaches (e.g., computational modeling and simulation, network analysis, and engineering control methods) to conceptualize prevention at the micro - or macro-levels of analyses; alternative intervention designs for when randomization is not possible; new methods for optimization of interventions; adaptive interventions and SMART designs; and innovative analytic approaches including time varying effect models, and models for incorporating intensive longitudinal data and / or real time data capture in prevention science research.

It facilitates rapid prototyping, longitudinal studies, and high - powered, pre-registered randomized controlled trials of character development research — in other words, it's making character development research fast, frictionless, and frugal.

As children mature and take control of their own nutrition and physical activity, the approaches that parents use to shape these behaviors may become more important, and additional longitudinal research is clearly needed.

97 Longitudinal research has linked heavy exposure to television violence in childhood to increased social aggression in adult females, even after controlling for childhood aggression, childhood IQ, parental education, parental TV habits, and the socioeconomic status of the family.98 Although these studies are suggestive, it will not be possible to draw conclusions about whether media violence causes this alternative form of childhood aggression until more research is conducted.

Future research could involve secondary analyses of Australian national datasets and prospective longitudinal studies, primary cohort studies, and well controlled intervention studies.

Among several other principles, the authors suggest that researchers interested in measuring gambling's impact should avoid applying arbitrary monetary values to non-monetary impacts, create impact profiles instead of a bottom line, examine micro and macro geographic impacts, compare impacts with changes in control communities, apply basic economic principles to their evaluation, and use longitudinal research designs when possible.

For the National Center for Special Education Research and in partnership with ICI, SRI is conducting a longitudinal randomized controlled trial to evaluate the efficacy of C&C as implemented in five large urban high schools.

CASEL has carried out an extensive body of rigorous research (including randomized control trials, longitudinal follow - ups, and multiple replications) that demonstrates that education that promotes SEL gets results and that teachers in all academic areas can effectively teach SEL (CASEL, 2016).