Sentences with phrase «enrolling families in the study»

All home visiting staff will also be asked to complete two surveys, one at the time that the local program begins enrolling families in the study and another one 12 months later.

Not exact matches

Undertaken in 1991, the «Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development» enrolled a diverse sample of children and their families at 10 locations across the U.S..

Research shows that families typically receive roughly half of the number of home visits expected.16, 17 For example, across three randomized controlled trials conducted of Nurse Family Partnership, average dosage of visits ranged from 45 to 62 percent.18 Research also shows that many, perhaps most, families enrolled in home visiting programs drop out before their eligibility ends.16, 19,20 Some home visiting studies have varied the dosage that families were offered and found that fewer home visits produced outcomes similar to higher levels of exposure.21

Some students go straight into grad school after completing their undergraduate studies, and others become part of the work force to even determine if they want to pursue a grad degree in the field they began, or some individuals start to work AND get married and start families before enrolling and completing grad school (me).

In the current study, Zhang and her colleagues, including Esther John, Ph.D., senior cancer epidemiologist at the Cancer Prevention Institute of California, analyzed data on 6,235 American and Canadian breast cancer patients from the Breast Cancer Family Registry, a National Cancer Institute - funded program that has collected clinical and questionnaire data on enrolled participants and their families since 1995.

Despite the small numbers of enrolled families, this study shows that the more frequently a child views child - directed fast food TV ads, often involving a toy, the more likely the family visited the fast food restaurant that was featured in the advertising.

The study (Pre-POINT) was performed between 2009 and 2013 in Germany, Austria, the United States, and the United Kingdom and enrolled children age 2 to 7 years with a family history of type 1 diabetes.

In the study, the risks were adjusted to account for several known factors that could influence the risk of death, including ethnicity; smoking status; intake of alcohol, fruits and vegetables and total calories; family history of chronic diseases; physical activity; body mass index; and heart disease risk factors when participants enrolled.

The researchers analyzed blood pressure rates and the incidence of hypertension, a persistent state of high blood pressure, in a group of 515 African - American men enrolled in the Howard University Family Study (HUFS).

Through a public records request, we've obtained a copy of the letter — which lists a host of problems in the studies, ranging from enrolling ineligible patients, not informing families of the risks associated with the studies, and skipping tests intended to minimize the risks associated with lithium.

In order to monitor the long - term impact of the genomic information returned to families, parents enrolled in the study are asked to complete four surveys over the course of the first year of enrollmenIn order to monitor the long - term impact of the genomic information returned to families, parents enrolled in the study are asked to complete four surveys over the course of the first year of enrollmenin the study are asked to complete four surveys over the course of the first year of enrollment.

Aladdin Shadyab, a post doctoral fellow in family medicine and public health at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, and his colleagues studied women enrolled in the Women's Health Initiative (WHI), a multi-year study of post-menopausal women in the U.S. Of the nearly 28,000 women, around half survived to reach age 90.

This study explores families» experiences choosing and enrolling in schools using the new Camden Enrollment, and provides recommendations for improvements to the system.

The National Educational Longitudinal Study (NELS), conducted by the U.S. Department of Education, confirms what independent school families have known for years: larger percentages of students in independent schools are enrolled in advanced courses than in public, parochial, and other private schools.

In Chicago, researchers had an unusual opportunity to study, over several years, how publicizing information about school quality influenced where families enrolled their children.

The newly appointed curator's previous curatorial credits includes «Empire / State: Artists Engaging Globalization,» which she co-curated while enrolled in the Whitney Independent Study Program in 2002, Suzanne McClelland, Found Poems from a Lost Time by Suzanne McClelland, Jasper Johns: Early Prints from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation, Postwar British Prints, and Vinland: Recent Work by Cindy Bernard.

An only child from a lower - middle - class family in Newark, New Jersey, Kruger graduated from Weequahic High School, before enrolling at Syracuse University to study art and design.

Electronic copies of these leaflets were also available on the study website in English and the 10 most common languages spoken by families of children enrolled in NSW schools; an audio version in English was also available at this site.

For example, in a study of adults enrolled in Kaiser Permanente, a large California health maintenance organization, questionnaire responses to items assessing abuse and dysfunction in the early family environment predicted multiple health disorders in adulthood in dose — response fashion, including ischemic heart disease, any cancer, depression, and stroke (14).

The positive effects of high - quality early childhood programs on specific, short - and long - term outcomes for children, families, and communities, have been quantified by numerous research studies.8 In the short - to medium - term, children enrolled in high - quality early learning programs are less likely to need special education services during their K - 12 years; are less likely to commit juvenile offenses; and more likely to graduate from high schooIn the short - to medium - term, children enrolled in high - quality early learning programs are less likely to need special education services during their K - 12 years; are less likely to commit juvenile offenses; and more likely to graduate from high schooin high - quality early learning programs are less likely to need special education services during their K - 12 years; are less likely to commit juvenile offenses; and more likely to graduate from high school.

Undertaken in 1991, the «Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development» enrolled a diverse sample of children and their families at 10 locations across the U.S..

Many MIHOPE sites that enrolled families that met the MIHOPE - Strong Start eligibility criteria, which are narrower than the MIHOPE criteria, are also included in this study.

These characteristics describe the families at the time they enrolled in the study and before they began receiving any home visiting services.

The report will present descriptive information on about 40 percent of the families who enrolled in the study and discuss selected characteristics of staff and local programs.

MIHOPE is in the final stages of engaging 12 states in the study, with 9 states enrolling families already.

The first MIHOPE - Strong Start sites began enrolling families in June 2014, and many MIHOPE sites have contributed to the study sample.

This study will recruit participants form the main cohort study, which aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a Family Enhancement Scheme for a group of low - income families by comparing the health outcomes of the intervention and control groups.9 The intervention group has been enrolled in the Family Enhancement Scheme since 2012 and has agreed to take part in a 15 - year project.

In this study, 129 families presenting to community mental health clinics for child conduct problems were enrolled in a doubly randomized preference study and initially randomized to choice or no - choice conditionIn this study, 129 families presenting to community mental health clinics for child conduct problems were enrolled in a doubly randomized preference study and initially randomized to choice or no - choice conditionin a doubly randomized preference study and initially randomized to choice or no - choice conditions.

Methods The sample included 728 families enrolled in the longitudinal study of the Infant Health and Development Program.

METHODS: Participants were 186 minority youth at risk for behavior problems who enrolled in long - term follow - up studies after random assignment to family intervention or control condition at age 4.

The present study further tested the FSM with baseline data from 343 custodial grandmothers (Mage = 58.5 years) enrolled in a clinical trial of the efficacy of interventions for improving the well - being of their families.

The preventive focus of the study, and the fact that participants were enrolling in a brief pilot study combine to make this sample different from that in many psychological intervention studies of clinically referred families.

Structural equation modeling was used to examine the effects of cultural factors (ethnic identity, perceived discrimination), family relations, and child problem type on mental health service utilization in a community sample of 1,480 adolescent girls (860 African American, 620 European American) between ages 15 and 17 years enrolled in the Pittsburgh Girls Study.