Sentences with phrase «convenience sampling»

The questionnaire relied on convenience sampling and, therefore, the results could not be generalized beyond the study sample.

The majority of research exploring the association between family functioning and obesity risk has included small, convenience samples [28, 30, 31].

However, a majority of the studies included in the meta - analysis were conducted with convenience samples of college students or community subclinical samples: of the 20 included samples, only one was recruited from clinical populations, involving adults with a diagnosis of Generalised Anxiety Disorder (Roemer et al. 2009).

However, recent meta - analytic findings (Wheeler et al., 2014) suggest slightly lower effect sizes and correlations in convenience samples compared to non-convenience samples, whereas the same overall conclusions could be drawn from both samples.

While there have been other surveys focused on the older population, «they have typically been based on convenience samples with low completion rates or clinical samples with unknown biases in representing the population at large,» Laumann said.

This pilot trial was carried out using a small convenience sample living in low - income urban communities in Panama City, and therefore, the findings are of reduced generalizability to other settings.

The scales were subsequently validated in a two - stage clinical reappraisal survey (N = 1000 telephone screening interviews in the first stage followed by N = 153 face - to - face clinical interviews in the second stage that oversampled first - stage respondents who screened positive for emotional problems) in a local convenience sample.

We will conduct an online survey in a cross-sectional convenience sample of the Moroccan - Dutch population, using a combination of several self - report questionnaires.

Method: An Internet survey was conducted with an international convenience sample of 472 self - selected medical, mental health, counseling, child welfare, and education professionals.

Medical Students» Perspectives on Trauma - Informed Care Training Ellen Goldstein, PhD; Jann Murray - García, MD, MPH; Andrés F Sciolla, MD; James Topitzes, PhD, LCSW A convenience sample of 20 University of California, Davis medical students from the Summer Institute on Race and Health received 6 hours of trauma - informed care training (2 - hour modules during 3 days) including lectures, discussions, and practice.

Limitations include self - report measures and use of a screened convenience sample.

Second, students enrolled in an advanced undergraduate communication course at the same university solicited participants via convenience sample in exchange for course credit.

A non-random convenience sample of 497 participants was recruited.

The survey produced 2,153 useable responses, but because it relied on convenience sampling, the results can not be generalized beyond the study sample.

«However, the available data on which the APA draws its conclusions, derived primarily from small convenience samples, are insufficient to support a strong generalized claim either way.

The convenience sampling frame (including recruitment via social media) is a limitation of this study, because it prevents us from calculating a response rate as it is unknown how many eligible participants were invited to the study / saw the advertisement.

They also found that in their convenience sample, the singles were more depressed than the coupled people.

The authors reported that the singles in their convenience sample reporter less sexual satisfaction than the coupled people.

Sixty - seven camps offering family camp programs were identified and a convenience sample of eighteen camps was selected.

The authors caution that the study is a convenience sample in which respondents who have had a history of anxiety or depression may have been more apt to respond to the survey.

The study utilizes a convenience sample of clinical isolates, and most participants were symptomatic, heterosexual, residing in coastal locations, and male.

Some said the lower α could force researchers to resort to so - called «convenience samples,» such as undergrad students, or move studies online.

In a convenience sample of 202 deceased former players of American football who were part of a brain donation program, a high proportion were diagnosed neuropathologically with CTE.

Quiz Ref IDIn a convenience sample of 202 deceased former players of American football who were part of a brain donation program, a high proportion were diagnosed neuropathologically with CTE.

The convenience sample and lack of statistical analysis do not allow us to affirm whether percentages or findings are unique to these data or could be generalizable to presumed ZIKV infection.

Once participants were recruited from a convenience sample, they were randomly assigned to either Dreampad Pillow ®, iRest ® meditation, or sleep hygiene control groups.

According to the report's lead author Aaron Smith, «we're not just looking at users of a particular site or a convenience sample.

Researchers call this a «convenience sample» and are leery about drawing firm conclusions.

[10] MTurk was a particularly appropriate venue for this research as we sought to assess the general population's view of the CCSS and did not want to use a convenience sample of university students.