Sentences with phrase «group than the comparison group»

Externalizing symptoms decreased more rapidily in the MDFT group than the comparison group; there was no difference on internalizing symptoms.

Results for Study 2 in youth experiencing the Teaching Family Program (TFP)[now called the Teaching - Family Model] indicated that the number of youth staying at the same offending level was lower for the TFP group than the comparison group (24 % vs. 48 %).

Not exact matches

Running speed was reduced for both groups of phone users in comparison to non-users, while subjects who used their phones for solely music performed at a higher speed and intensity than any of the other groups.

It's also greater than the 3.4 percent rate of employment growth measure in a comparison group of small, non-clustered businesses based on Dun & Bradstreet data.

But new left groups became increasingly doctrinal toward the end of the «60s and remain today more oriented to doctrine than experience in comparison with religious and human potential groups.

Today, as adults, they earn an average of 25 percent more per year than the subjects whose parents didn't receive home visits; by a variety of measures, including wages, these formerly delayed infants have now caught up with a comparison group of their peers who didn't show any signs of delay in infancy.

• When fathers of four - week - old infants were given a brief training in baby massage and the Burleigh Relaxation Bath technique with a particular emphasis on the father - infant relationship they were more involved with their infants (than a comparison group of fathers) two months on.

«Fathers at Work», a more recent multli - site US demonstration project which, like previous programmes, combined work around fathering with training / employment support reports participants earning $ 11,025 per year at follow - up (about twice as much as a comparison group and on average $ 4,602 more than before entering the programme).

Participants with support orders in place paid an average of $ 90.32 in child support in the month before the follow - up interview, significantly more than was paid by comparison group fathers (an average of $ 38.13).

The relative benefits and risks of birth in different settings have been widely debated in recent years.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 A problem when trying to evaluate the effect of birth setting on perinatal outcomes has been the use of actual place of birth rather than planned place of birth to define comparison groups.

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.

Compounding this problem, a fair number of the controls still had sex, albeit at a lower rate than cases, watering down the comparison between the two groups.

Research demonstrates that NFP and PAT also have negative effects, such as program families having fewer appropriate play materials in the home than the comparison group families, using harsher discipline techniques and being less accepting of the child's behaviour.

Despite the fact that infants breastfed by mothers who took fluoxetine demonstrated less robust weight gain than the comparison group, it is reassuring that there was no significant excess of infants with weight measurements > 2 standard deviations below the mean.

Many of the comparisons that were undertaken were invalidated by the fact that more than one of the four key characteristics (i.e. group versus one to one, length; child involvement; adjunctive treatment) was varied.

Rates of birth weight that was less than 2500 g (0.8 %) in our home birth group did not differ from the midwife comparison group (0.7 %) and were somewhat lower than the rate of 2 % among women attended by midwives in the Quebec study.

Clients in the home birth group were more likely to report the use of tobacco during pregnancy than the midwife comparison group and were more likely to report the use of illicit drugs during pregnancy than the physician comparison group.

Five babies in the home birth group required assisted ventilation for more than 24 hours, compared with none in either comparison group.

The home birth group was younger than the group who had a planned hospital birth attended by a midwife (midwife comparison group) and weighed slightly less at the beginning of pregnancy.

The rate of Apgar scores that were less than 7 at 5 minutes in the home birth group, excluding stillbirths and babies with congenital anomalies, was 0.9 %, which was not different from those in the comparison groups.

We observed no significant differences between the home - birth group and either comparison group with respect to a 5 - minute Apgar score of less than 7, a diagnosis of asphyxia at birth, seizures, or the need for assisted ventilation beyond the first 24 hours of life.

Fathers in the intervention group showed significantly greater gains in direct interaction and support for learning activities with children at home than the comparison group of fathers, but only if the fathers were at least moderately involved in the program.

Comparison of 2010 ethnic minority vote choices on the (also online) YouGov web panel with the more comprehensive Ethnic Minority British Election Study (EMBES) conducted in that same year shows that Tory support in the online sample is 10 points higher, and Labour support 13 - 18 points lower, than among the equivalent groups in the EMBES.

Overall, patients with synucleinopathies died about two years earlier than participants without in the comparison group.

The second theory, comparative reference group theory, centers on comparison: The more status others in your network have than you, the worse you will feel about yourself.

The grades earned by the 901 students in the course featuring daily quizzes were, on average, about half a letter grade higher than those earned by a comparison group of 935 of Pennebaker and Gosling's previous students, who had experienced a more traditionally designed course covering the same material.

The factors that may differ between the groups, such as older age, obesity, smoking and diabetes, are known and can be controlled for, providing for comparison groups that may provide more information on the impact of heart failure on subsequent cancer occurrence than other heart disease groups.

DNA comparisons showed that mice treated with antibiotics had a higher proportion of bacteria belonging to the group Firmicutes than control animals.

But they had a significantly wider range of gut microbiota than men in the comparison group, particularly those with a high BMI.

By stimulating this region of the brain, the Alzheimer's subjects cognitive and daily functional abilities as a whole declined more slowly than Alzheimer's patients in a matched comparison group not being treated with DBS,» he said.

And protein accounted for considerably more of their energy intake (22 %) than it did in the comparison group (15 - 16 %).

Of the 1,551 women with early - stage breast cancer who were randomized to the comparison group of the WHEL study, more than half (864, or 56 percent) were taking tamoxifen, and more than three - quarters of those (674, or 78 percent) reported hot flashes.

Because regular meditators may have differences in brain function and structure, as suggested by meta - analyses, 28 and greater changes in GE than novices, after meditation, 25 we also recruited a third comparison group of experienced meditators.

However, eosinophil scores were significantly different between groups (p < 0.001, Anova) with significantly lower scores for nonvaccine groups than for vaccine groups of both mouse strains (p < 0.001 for all comparable group comparisons, Tukey's HSD).

Mean scores for vaccine groups greater than non-vaccine groups for Balb / c and C57BL / 6 p <.001 for all comparisons.

From the studies which had both verum and sham acupuncture groups: 3a) greater activation of verum acupuncture points than baseline (verum > rest), 3b) greater deactivation of verum acupuncture points than baseline (rest > verum), 3c) greater activation of sham acupuncture points than baseline (sham > rest), 3d) greater deactivation of sham acupuncture points than baseline (rest > sham), 3e) comparison ALE map of greater activation of verum than sham acupuncture relative to rest («verum > rest» - «sham > rest»), 3f) comparison ALE map of greater deactivation of verum than sham acupuncture relative to rest («rest > verum» - «rest > sham»).

«But not having a comparison to a control group [of children without ADHD], I'm not sure that's higher or lower than what the student population would be doing.»

Comparisons between age groups underline the muscle disparity: An 80 - year - old might have 30 percent less muscle mass than a 20 - year - old.

«Comparison of the PLLC n23 PUFAs: DALA ratio between dietary - habit groups showed that it was 209 % higher in vegan men and 184 % higher in vegan women than in fish - eaters, was 14 % higher in vegetarian men and 6 % higher in vegetarian women than in fish - eaters, and was 17 % and 18 % higher in male and female meat - eaters, respectively, than in fish - eaters This suggests that the statistically estimated conversion may be higher in non-fish-eaters than in fish - eaters.»

Saturated fat intake was significantly lower in the intervention group than in the comparison group (means: 9.5 % and 12.4 %, respectively).

Although all groups of db / db mice weighed significantly more than WT mice [Fig. 1 (a — d); effect of genotype, F1, 36 = 76.55, P < 0.001], db / db mice exposed to TE weighed significantly less than SED db / db mice at the end of the experiment [Fig. 1 (d); post hoc comparison, db / db SED vs db / db WBV, not significant; db / db SED vs db / db TE, t14 = 3.75, P < 0.01].

The unit consists of 10 businesses, including online dating site Parship Elite Group and energy price - comparison business Verivox, and generated more than $ 650 million of revenue in 2017.

By comparison, fewer than one - third of the board members reported that business groups were «very» or «somewhat» active in elections in their districts.

They didn't score higher than the comparison group in self - control.

A percentile of 60 means that the average student in a district is achieving better than 59.9 percent of the students in our global comparison group.

Students in Word Generation schools learned more of the target words than students in comparison schools, even though the latter group performed at a higher level at the start.

A percentile ranking of 60, for example, indicates that the average student in a district performed better than 59.9 percent of students in the global comparison group.

Across 21 comparisons (seven sites with three racial groups each), we find only two cases in which the average difference between the sending TPS and the receiving charter school is greater than 10 percentage points in the concentration of the transferring student's race.

As expected, the students in Word Generation schools learned more of the target words than students in comparison schools, even though the latter group performed at a higher level at the start.

(Teaching Fellows in the study had four years of experience and they were no worse than their comparison group of teachers who had 13 years of experience.)