Sentences with phrase «if study participants»

We would expect the risk - lowering benefits of all meats to be increased if study participants consumed grass - fed and pasture - raised foods.

If study participants stick to a 10 percent intake of fat, the following health benefits have been documented by numerous studies: Obesity In 1975, a study on low - fat diets and extremely obese study participants found that when the participants at an extremely low - fat diet, they were able to lose an average of 140 pounds in just a few months.

She said if study participants did not smoke and controlled their asthma as an adult, they could possibly reduce the impact of what had happened as a child.

If the study participants consumed alcohol with any other non-caloric beverage, including water or even club soda, the results would be the same.

Not exact matches

Research conducted at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, found that study participants asked to complete a survey were significantly more likely to do so if the survey included a Post-it note with a handwritten message asking for their help, akin to a favor.

Participants were asked to not only guess what their partner's reservation price (the lowest price they would accept), but also questions that were designed to show how they perceived their partner — the study's authors were curious as to whether certain negotiation tactics might lead to a likability cost, even if they resulted in a few more dollars for the partner.

But if the studies asked whether the entrepreneurs had developed strategy, prioritized, calculated starting costs and planned cash flow, study participants would probably say yes.

But, since that study looked only at people who'd already made it into ripe old age, it's tough to say whether or not the study participants developed these characteristics as a result of old age or if the traits helped them to live as long as they had.

«If you have been living with a stress - is - debilitating mindset (like most of us), you don't have to be stuck with it,» she declares, citing a portion of the study in which some participants were shown short videos guiding them to think more positively about stress.

What's more, study participants who labeled themselves as unhealthy were found to live longer if they continued working.

The first thing we wanted to do was to see if the participants in our study lined up reasonably well with Mamoon's benchmark of 4 as a goal for promising SaaS companies.

A 2009 study found that exposure to extreme cold temperatures activated brown fat in 23 and 24 participants by a 15-fold increase, meaning someone could lose up to nine pounds in a year if they kept this practice up.

The researchers asked study participants to determine from photographs if people were experiencing feelings such as loss, victory or pain from facial expressions or body language alone, or from both.

A study at the University of London found that participants who multitasked during cognitive tasks experienced IQ score declines that were similar to what they'd expect if they had smoked marijuana or stayed up all night.

If you're trying to win the Ironman Triathlon where contestants must first swim 3.86 kilometers, then bike 180.25 kilometers followed by a 42.20 kilometer run, here are some of the key ingredients you need: A long - term committed outlook, years of consistent and serious training, years of studying and observing other Ironman participants, a mentor, sound nutrition, physical & mental fitness and sleep.

In agreement, another participant suggested that «we put too high an expectation on the seminary if we expect it to provide the integration» between theological study and parish ministry.

The study defined same - s3x parenting by asking participants if their parents had ever had same - s3x relationships, and whether they had lived with the parent at that time.

Research participants in this study in fact had slightly better cholesterol profiles if they drank full - fat milk.

A previous study showed that in the Campania region, the prevalence of full breastfeeding at 6 months was 7 %.12 Assuming a 20 % loss to follow - up, we calculated that we would require ∼ 240 mother and father pairs to detect a statistically significant increase of 15 % (1 − α = 95 %, 1 − β = 80 %) in the rate of full breastfeeding at 6 months.13 To avoid communication between study groups, which would be likely if people who were admitted to the same hospital unit were exposed to different messages at the same time, we did not randomize the participants as it usually is done, 14 but we allocated the 2 study groups into 2 consecutive blocks of time, after having randomly paired the 2 study groups with the 2 blocks of time.

For each included study, we described the method used, if any, to blind study participants and personnel from knowledge of which intervention a participant received.

To find out if this therapy is effective among pregnant women with insomnia, and ultimately whether it may improve birth outcomes, Felder and colleagues are recruiting participants for the UCSF Research on Expecting Moms and Sleep Therapy (REST) Study.

A participant was identified as gay or bisexual in the study if she identified herself as such and if she reported being attracted to people of the same sex.

Like previous studies, this one found that if participants lied, whether verbally or in a written note, they gave the hygiene products better scores than after telling the truth.

After six months on the trial, 95 percent of participants reported no problems taking the drug, and while several discontinued treatment for varying periods of time during the study period, the investigators estimate that 90 percent would have tolerated the treatment if they had continued the full two years.

In a study that involved guessing the age of women shown in photos, participants knocked off 12 years from actual ages if they smelled, and enjoyed the smell of, grapefruit.

Study participants had to determine if the man had a gun.

While the study showed that brand attitude for obviously sponsored content decreased slightly, it also showed that if the content was valuable or if the consumer perceived it as being useful, participants would have a favorable brand attitude whether the sponsorship was disclosed or not.

The varying doses, as well as the placebo participants took, were all packaged the same so neither they or the investigators knew which dose, if any, they were getting until the study was complete.

The antiretroviral drugs, of course, can only work if they are in the blood or tissues when HIV attempts to establish an infection, so nonadherent participants who are in treatment arms of these studies make it exceedingly difficult to tease out whether infections occurred because of the drug failure or their own behavior.

In that study, participants completed a computer - based task in which they were asked to press a button if they saw a male face but withhold a response if they saw a female face.

«We found that study participants were more apt to engage in transactional sex — the exchange of sex for drugs or money — if they did not complete high school and if their neighbors did not complete high school,» said the study's lead - author, Robin C. Stevens, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Nursing and Director of the Health Equity & Media Lab.

They could even, Kleinfeld fantasized, track down some of the participants in the original study and see if they were game for another round.

Then, in 2002, a 16,000 - women study named the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) dropped a bombshell: participants were likelier to suffer from heart attacks and breast cancer if they took combination estrogen and progestin hormones.

In the study all participants had to stop reading and turn off the lights at exactly 10 P.M., even if they did not feel sleepy.

Yet, in other studies participants are instructed to induce loving feelings in themselves, as if they don't arise spontaneously.

Indeed, it is difficult, if not impossible, to reproduce harmful situations realistically and then studying participant's helping behaviour, especially if such situations pose physical threat to the life of the participant....»

All participants were considered «non-susceptible» to initiating traditional cigarette smoking at the beginning of the study, because they had responded «definitely no» when asked if they would try a cigarette offered by a friend or believed they would smoke a cigarette within the next year.

Participants in that study responded to a variety of questions including how often they went hungry as a child, whether they have problems controlling their temper, and if they had physically injured another person on purpose.

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If you have defensible doubts that the data are actually rubbish (say, an fMRI data set littered with spikes, distortions, and excessive motion artifacts, or a social psychology study where you discovered posthoc that all the participants were illiterate and couldn't read the questionnaires) then by all means throw them in the bin.

During the study, the participants» cognitive functioning was tested to determine if any decline was present.

We tested memory both immediately after encoding and after a week delay; associative memory accuracy was determined by asking participants to indicate if object pairs were intact (a pair of objects studied together), rearranged (a pair of objects studied in different combinations), or new (at least one object was new).

If participants don't receive the study medication, they are always given the best available treatment for their particular cancer.

Because participants in such studies are not «blinded» — they know if they are getting treatment or not — they are likely to be influenced by the placebo effect and other forms of expectancy bias.

The study participants were 3.5 times more likely to develop vascular dementia if they'd experienced depression symptoms in both middle age and later in life, which suggests that «recurring depression over the life course seems to be triggering vascular changes that puts [people] at risk for vascular dementia,» says lead author Deborah E. Barnes, Ph.D., an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco.

«If you're wondering whether saturated fat may contribute to heart disease in some way that isn't related to cholesterol, a large meta - analysis of prospective studies involving close to 350,000 participants found no association between saturated fat and heart disease.

Baron points out that the study looked at just a short snippet of the participants» lives (one week), so they don't know if a poorer diet and exercise could lead to weight gain over time.

The purpose of the study was to see if exposure to communities with higher rates of obesity affected the BMI of the participants and increased the individual risk of weight gain.

If assessing the connection between fat intake and diabetes, a good study will take into account all meaningful variables, such as how often the participants exercised, or whether they had existing cardiovascular disease.