Sentences with phrase «group supporting this study»

The Alberta Inflammatory Bowel Disease Consortium, the group supporting this study, are researching the following nutrients - through the consumption of the following foods:

Not exact matches

Replied a lawyer and his wife: «The postcards make us feel as though we are studying with the support of a group....

The study also found falling support for suicide bombings, as well as mixed attitudes towards Hamas and Hezbollah, Islamic groups designated as terrorist organizations by Western governments but which operate extensive social services networks in parts of the Muslim world.

A core activity is Bible study groups which has an emphasis on friendship, prayer, and mutual support.

Statistical studies of the frequency of sexual abuse of minors in the general population as well as statistics about abuse among other groups such as public school teachers lend support to MacRae's point.

Some communities have developed study and support groups for learning skills and using potential, and these are to be encouraged.

The groups have bridged differences between several people, opened individual counseling opportunities, let parishioners express «beefs» directly, and given the minister support in his ministry.21 I concur with Robert Leslie's suggestion that the most natural, unthreatening way to introduce personal sharing in churches is to combine this emphasis with study.

Actually many studies supported this notion, until people started suppressing the data and journals refused to publish these studies due to pressure from gay groups.

Embodying that mission might include things like worship (always), Sunday School, study groups, accountability groups, social / support groups, local mission projects, and remote mission projects.

Andre Beteille's study on caste, class and power conducted in 1965 is still relevant today: power has shifted from rich landlords and other traditionally rich groups not to the poor, but to a middle group, mostly politicians who with the support of the rich, continue to use the system to further their interests.

Several studies of young unmarried mothers have found that between 20 and 25 per cent became pregnant again within two years (with the rate going much higher among certain minority groups) The repeat of pregnancy appears to be related to a lack of knowledge about the risks of sexual intercourse, limited opportunity for further education, boredom with homelife, and the unavailability of a strong female support group.

«While state policies and the actions of extremist groups often mask the high levels of tolerance in the minds of ordinary Arabs, the typical citizen in this region expresses a great deal of support for tolerant policies,» said Michael Hoffman, who studied religious minorities as part of the Religious Freedom Project at Georgetown's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs.

We chose to model the effects on body weight because good evidence (from both trials and epidemiological studies) links regular consumption of sugar sweetened drinks to weight gain.8 10 12 Moreover, data from longitudinal studies support the idea that changes in the price of sugar sweetened drinks are linked to changes in body weight.20 Other groups have used this form of modelling to estimate the effects of a sugar sweetened drink tax on obesity.18 21 22

While preparing for the competition, Orr credits his local San Diego ties for their support, «I have a great group of somms here in San Diego that I study and taste with.

With the NCAA enforcement staff, our internal working group of University Counsel Leslie Strohm, Senior Associate Dean Jonathan Hartlyn, and former faculty athletics representative Jack Evans interviewed faculty and staff in the Department of African and Afro - American Studies, academic support counselors, and student - athletes who had taken multiple courses in the department.

In this study, and in opposition to findings elsewhere, higher levels of social support were associated with greater depressive symptomatology, leading researchers to speculate that for low - income men the perceived costs of reciprocity may have deterred them from utilizing available support; or that peer groups may have influenced their alcohol or drug use, or placed demands on their resources (Anderson et al, 2005).

The only studies that could support such a ban would entail comparison of equivalent groups that did and did not head.

A review of studies evaluating various therapies utilized in rehabilitation from anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction surgery provides additional support for guidelines issued by a multi-center group of 20 clinicians in 2001 (dubbed the MOON guidelines), and establishes that most have a sound basis in science.

Spending many hours per week playing sports was found to have a positive effect on explosive strength and gross motor coordination among all age groups, supporting the theory advanced in earlier studies.»

Yet, my personal approach to parenting is a mix that goes well beyond the bits and pieces of these books that I found helpful — among the bits and pieces that I feel don't apply to my family but certainly they may apply to another family — and include bits and pieces of how I was raised, the lessons learned reflecting on years of parenting already behind me, thoughts from friends and family members, my instincts, the reality of unavoidable challenges, scientific studies, blogs and websites, parenting classes and support groups, teleseminars, conferences, and so much more.

This MADM scale and MOR index are free for use in academic settings, however for any study carried out by a commercial group or if the study is wholly or partially supported by a commercial organization a fee may be payable.

At New Legacy, language arts and social studies are combined into integrated theme - based humanities courses; math is taught in a blended environment that enables teachers to effectively support and challenge a diverse group of learners; and science is taught in six - week modules that focus on scientific inquiry and the scientific process.

In an effort to comfort babies and support parents this MTF Writing Group review will highlight the findings of a recent study that put some of these age - old remedies to the test.

My objective was and continues to be to provide a support group that is very dad friendly, an attempt at culture change by studying carefully what would remove the obstacles and motivate a dad to participate.

Steering group — This study was planned and coordinated by Jean Davies, research midwife, Newcastle; Pat Davies, health visitor, Sunderland; Alan Fortune, general practitioner, Alnwick; Linda Hedley, senior midwife, Berwick; Edmund Hey, consultant paediatrician, Newcastle; Barbara Hinchcliffe, health visitor, Hexham; Maureen Hodgson, community midwife, North Durham; Ann Kirkpatrick, midwifery supervisor, Darlington; Jane Lumley, National Childbirth Trust, Hexham; Norma McPherson, community midwife, Barrow in Furness; Diane Packham, Association for the Improvement of Maternity Services, Newcastle; Willie Reid, consultant obstetrician, Carlisle; Marjorie Renwick, regional maternity survey coordinator, Newcastle; Margaret Robinson, community midwife, Cockermouth; Laura Robson, director of midwifery education, Newcastle; Sheila Smithson, community midwife, Middlesbrough; Ann West, senior midwife, Penrith; Margaret Whyte, the Society to Support Home Confinement; Jane Wright, community midwife, Teesside; and Gavin Young, general practitioner, Penrith.

We thank the North American Registry of Midwives Board for helping facilitate the study; Tim Putt for help with layout of the data forms; Jennesse Oakhurst, Shannon Salisbury, and a team of five others for data entry; Adam Slade for computer programming support; Amelia Johnson, Phaedra Muirhead, Shannon Salisbury, Tanya Stotsky, Carrie Whelan, and Kim Yates for office support; Kelly Klick and Sheena Jardin for the satisfaction survey; members of our advisory council (Eugene Declerq (Boston University School of Public Health), Susan Hodges (Citizens for Midwifery and consumer panel of the Cochrane Collaboration's Pregnancy and Childbirth Group), Jonathan Kotch (University of North Carolina Department of Maternal and Child Health), Patricia Aikins Murphy (University of Utah College of Nursing), and Lawrence Oppenheimer (University of Ottawa Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine); and the midwives and mothers who agreed to participate in the study.

I also feel that I struggle to lead a formal study of topics during our support group meetings.

Upledger CranioSacral Therapy Study Group Leader and Teaching Assistant: Along with my CranioSacral Therapy partner, Donna Hall, CST, I run an Upledger - appoved study group to train and support other CranioSacral TherapStudy Group Leader and Teaching Assistant: Along with my CranioSacral Therapy partner, Donna Hall, CST, I run an Upledger - appoved study group to train and support other CranioSacral TherapGroup Leader and Teaching Assistant: Along with my CranioSacral Therapy partner, Donna Hall, CST, I run an Upledger - appoved study group to train and support other CranioSacral Therapstudy group to train and support other CranioSacral Therapgroup to train and support other CranioSacral Therapists.

Thus, I strongly support the critical statement «human milk is the recommended source of nutrition for infants» in the FDA's proposed guidance, and urge a guidance revision that any breast milk comparison claims (e.g., «closer than ever to breast milk») made by formula companies must also be substantiated by studies that use a control group of exclusively breast - fed infants.

Website that aims to provide evidence - based resources and support about VBAC from a variety of sources; scientific studies, professional guidelines, government reports, birth advocacy groups, as well as successful and established VBAC programs.

As a result of the LEAP study, groups such as the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, now state that for infants at high risk, there is strong evidence to support the introduction of peanut between 4 and 11 months.

The increased socioeconomic inequalities in breastfeeding observed in the intervention group supports the argument that population intervention strategies could inadvertently exacerbate, rather than mitigate, socioeconomic inequalities, particularly when the intervention aims to change individual behaviours rather than targeting «upstream» structural changes.25 Our results are also compatible with an observational study from Brazil reporting that breastfeeding rates increased first among the socioeconomically better - off, followed by increases among the poor, over a 20 - year period of active breastfeeding promotion campaigns in Brazil.26

«This study adds to previous research conducted in smaller sample groups that also showed this approach does not increase the risk of a baby choking, and indeed in the UK, supports the Department of Health recommendation that babies can have finger foods from six months old.»

Studies were excluded where the intervention (a) was aimed at prevention rather than treatment; (b) was aimed specifically at children, the whole family as a unit or at teachers; or (c) was non-structured, such as an informal support group or unstructured home visits.

The aim of this study was to evaluate adherence to the Neonatal Resuscitation Program algorithm by subjects working from memory as compared to subjects using a decision support tool that provides auditory and visual prompts to guide implementation of the Neonatal Resuscitation Program algorithm during simulated neonatal resuscitation.Healthcare professionals (physicians, nurse practitioners, obstetrical / neonatal nurses) with a current NRP card were randomized to the control or intervention group and performed three simulated neonatal resuscitations.

24 randomised and 2 non-randomised trials of intervention packages, including mainly: building community - support or women's groups (9 studies), community mobilisation and antenatal and postnatal home visitation (7 studies), community mobilisation and home - based neonatal treatment (1 study), training traditional birth attendants who made antenatal and intrapartum home visits (2 studies), home - based neonatal care and treatment (2 studies), and education of mothers and antenatal and postnatal visitation (2 studies)

Based on the main focus of the intervention, included studies were grouped into 1 of the following 6 categories: PC, professional support, breastfeeding team (PC combined with professional support), breastfeeding - specific clinic appointments, group prenatal counseling, and enhanced breastfeeding programs (program add - ons).

Meta - analyses of studies evaluating these programs show positive effects on the competence, efficacy and psychological health of the parents, as well as on the behaviour of the children.49, 50 A recent implementation study of a strategy for parenting and family support showed that families in the treatment group had far fewer cases of substantiated child maltreatment, abuse injuries and out - of - home placements.51

Case Study 1: Jane says «I have been involved in breastfeeding support for about 11 years, initially as a volunteer in a breastfeeding support group and then more recently as a paid peer supporter in a hospital running a post-natal telephone support service.

«Working Relations Between the LC and Community - based Mother Support Groups» and «Case Studies.»

Feldman and her colleagues studied 89 first - time parents who all fell into one of three groups: Heterosexual primary - caregiving mothers, heterosexual fathers in a supporting parental role, and primary - caregiving homosexual fathers who were raising their children without the involvement of a woman.

One research summary found that after reviewing all available studies regarding the outcomes of using IBCLCs, mothers who had higher breastfeeding initiation rates, a longer duration of exclusive breastfeeding, a longer duration of any breastfeeding, higher breastfeeding rates for all infant age groups, AND better maternal and infant health outcomes as compared to those who didn't seek out IBCLC support (5).

Findings from this study also may not be generalizable to other sociodemographic groups or populations with less social and educational support for breastfeeding.

«The objectives of the study were to look at health care and support needs, main concerns and hopes of transgendered children and youth and their parents here in our province,» said Dr. Tracey Bridger, one of the people involved in the research group.

The significant decrease of perceived milk insufficiency and of interruption of breastfeeding because of problems among the mothers of the intervention group of this study seems to support the efficacy of this approach.

In addition, there was no effect on breastfeeding duration when the pacifier was introduced at 1 month of age.280 A more recent systematic review found that the highest level of evidence (ie, from clinical trials) does not support an adverse relationship between pacifier use and breastfeeding duration or exclusivity.281 The association between shortened duration of breastfeeding and pacifier use in observational studies likely reflects a number of complex factors such as breastfeeding difficulties or intent to wean.281 A large multicenter, randomized controlled trial of 1021 mothers who were highly motivated to breastfeed were assigned to 2 groups: mothers advised to offer a pacifier after 15 days and mothers advised not to offer a pacifier.

Professionals provided breastfeeding support with other people in a further nine studies; para-professionals (Kools 2005; Morrell 2000), peer supporters (Bhandari 2003; Hopkinson 2009; Pugh 2002; Pugh 2010), and lay people (employees who had to be mothers in Barros 1994; someone chosen by the mother in Winterburn 2003; and a group of mothers in Hoddinott 2009).

No association between vaginal delivery and interference with daily life was observed after 6 weeks, which supports a previous study.22 Additionally, the prevalence of moderate or severe UI in the vaginal delivery group was higher than that in the cesarean delivery group at 3 — 5 days, perhaps because pelvic floor muscle strength is significantly reduced at 3 — 8 days after vaginal delivery, but this is not the case after cesarean delivery.6

Two studies offered group support (Hoddinott 2009; Vidas 2011), one offered both individual and group support (Ekstrom 2006), one study offered support to couples (Abbass - Dick 2015), and in two studies this aspect of support was unclear (Kools 2005; Kramer 2001).

Do human clinical studies or epidemiological studies consistently support the concept that high doses of vitamin A may be teratogenic and produce a recognizable group of malformations?