Sentences with phrase «intervention than control group»

Figures 2 — 4 show the plotted change over time in mean scores for the outcome measures that showed a significantly greater change in the intervention than control group at either 6 or 12 months: ECBI intensity scale, SDQ conduct subscale, and GHQ depression scale.

Our observation that the improvement in both the ECBI intensity score, a measure based primarily on problem behaviours, and the SDQ (conduct) scores was significantly greater in the intervention than the control group provides confidence that the intervention was effective, at least as far as these aspects of children's mental health was concerned.

The predicted probability of identifying Tooth Fracture / Attrition / Abrasion is 34 % higher in the intervention than control group (95 % CI: 7 % to 62 %).

The predicted probability of identifying recessions is 83 % higher in the intervention than control group (95 % CI: 65 % to 98 %);

The predicted probability of identifying furcations is 52 % higher in the intervention than control group (95 % CI 27 % to 77 %);

Because mean child IQ scores at age 6.5 years, verbal IQ scores in particular, were higher among children in the intervention than the control group, 16 we might expect that socioeconomic inequalities in child IQ would be widened in the intervention group, owing to the increase in observed inequalities in breastfeeding.

Not exact matches

• A controlled trial of a brief (one postpartum session) group intervention with mothers and fathers, addressing infant behaviour and couple - relationship management, found dramatically lower instances of depression / anxiety among women who had attended the couples - group - session than among those who had met with a health visitor at home (Fisher et al, 2010).

Mothers in the intervention group (77 %) reported enjoying breastfeeding more than mothers in the control group (69 %) whose partner did not receive the antenatal education session intervention.

Despite the widened socioeconomic inequalities by the intervention in rates of prolonged exclusive and any breastfeeding, breastfeeding rates were even higher among mothers with the lowest education (secondary school or less) in the intervention group than they were among mothers who completed university in the control group.

Verbal IQ deficits among children of mothers with lower education compared with those who completed university were somewhat smaller in the intervention group than in the control group: 5.2 (95 % CI: 3.1, 7.3) vs 6.5 (95 % CI: 5.6, 7.4) points deficit among mothers with partial university education and 10.7 (95 % CI: 8.4, 12.9) vs 11.7 (95 % CI: 10.2, 13.2) points among those with secondary education or less.

No socioeconomic inequalities were observed in the control group, whereas a small gradient was seen in the intervention group (RD = 0.06, 95 % CI: 0.03, 0.09 for mothers with partial university education; RD = 0.10, 95 % CI: 0.06, 0.14 for mothers with no more than secondary education).

Mean verbal IQ scores of children in the lowest maternal education category in the intervention were also substantially higher than those of their counterparts in the control group.

In the study by Merewood et al. (27), the rate of any breastfeeding at 12 wk PP was considerably higher in the intervention group than in controls (OR: 2.81, 95 % CI: 1.11 — 7.14; P = 0.03).

Given the desirability of breastfeeding, it is possible that women in the intervention group felt more guilty about discontinuing breastfeeding than control women because of relationships developed with the peer counselor, and thus, they did not answer telephone calls when the research assistant called to ascertain feeding status.

The intervention tested by Bonuck et al. (31) yielded impressive results with significantly higher rates of any breastfeeding through 20 wk PP, with the exception of week 18 (53 vs. 39 %, P < 0.05) and greater breastfeeding intensity (defined as more than half of feedings derived from breast milk in this study) through 9 wk (46 vs. 33 %, P < 0.05) in the intervention (vs. control) group.

At 4 wk PP, the intervention group had a significantly higher rate of exclusive breastfeeding than controls (based on 24 - h recall).

At 4 months of age, based on since birth recall, the breastfeeding proportion was significantly higher in the intervention group than in control group (20.6 % in the intervention group vs. 11.3 % in the control group, p < 0.01).

In support of these themes, Wolfberg et al. found that breastfeeding initiation rates were higher (74 %) when fathers attended a two hour prenatal intervention than in a control group (41 %)[43].

Potential confounders: women were excluded from intervention group following randomisation if they had received fewer than 2 prenatal lactation consultations; ITT analysis not performed (8 women in control group who met LC excluded); intervention included input by staff caring for both intervention and control groups.

Despite the intervention's brevity, the black children who received the affirmative assignment scored one fourth to one third of a grade point higher in that course than the black control group at the end of the term, and the difference showed up in other classes, too.

«The shift in assertiveness is small — HEART participants were 5 percent more assertive than the control group — but one of the key findings here is that a short, one - time intervention can have a measureable impact on behavior,» Widman says.

One year after completing the intervention, women in the EAAA program experienced 46 % fewer completed rapes and 63 % fewer attempted rapes than women in the control group.

After one month, participants in the intervention group sat down for 71 minutes less in an 8 hour work day than the control group.

English language learners who participated in the intervention also scored significantly higher in math than their peers in the control group.

In the lifestyle intervention group, however, hs - TnI levels remained significantly higher than in the control group (2.15 vs 0.90 ng / L, p = 0.003).

The number diagnosed with prostate cancer was higher in the intervention group (n = 8054; 4.3 %) than in the control group (n = 7853; 3.6 %)(RR, 1.19 [95 % CI, 1.14 to 1.25]; P <.001).

More prostate cancer tumors with a Gleason grade of 6 or lower were identified in the intervention group (n = 3263/189 386 [1.7 %]-RRB- than in the control group (n = 2440/219 439 [1.1 %]-RRB-(difference per 1000 men, 6.11 [95 % CI, 5.38 to 6.84]; P <.001).

Husbands in the intervention group had significantly lower post treatment 24 - hour systolic blood pressure than the control group.

A positive relative percent difference means that the score improved more in the intervention group than in the control group.

After 1 week of intervention, the positive feelings were significantly greater than the control group (intervention = +48, control = +15; Figure 3A)(p = 0.00, 95 % CI: − 1.14 to − 4.97, r = 0.10).

During the 12 - week treatment, the intervention group showed greater reductions in blood glucose levels and a quicker drop in fasting glucose levels than the control group.

We excluded trials concerning calcium and vitamin D given together with a placebo comparator (trials were only eligible if vitamin D was given to both intervention and control groups, because vitamin D supplementation has been associated with decreased mortality17); trials in which calcium was administered in the form of dietary modification or a complex nutritional supplement; and trials in which most participants had a major systemic disease other than osteoporosis.

These data suggest that at intervention - end, the Dreampad Pillow ® group expe - rienced a statistically significant fewer amount of nighttime awakenings than both the iRest ® meditation and sleep hygiene control groups (see Table 1).

The research group showed significantly more improvement in their skills than the control group for screening, brief interventions, but not for referral.

As part of the long - running study on the Abecedarian Project, an intervention program for poor children in North Carolina, researchers have found that children in the program showed fewer symptoms of depression than those who were randomly assigned to a control group.

Twenty years after students participated in the program, John Holbein, a researcher at Princeton and the new study's author, matched Fast Track participants — now adults — to state voter files and found that those in the intervention group voted at a rate 11 to 14 percentage points higher than their peers in the control group, a significant boost considering that get - out - the - vote programs typically boost turnout by only 1 to 4 percentage points.

However, The independent evaluators from National Centre for Social Research found that the children who received the Switch - on intervention in this larger trial made no more progress than the children in the «business as usual» control group.

Hehir points out that interventions for this group are more likely to focus on controlling their disruptive behaviors in school than on providing mental health help or positive interventions to improve students» mental state and behaviors.

His results were striking: after one semester, students who were randomly assigned to experience the intervention achieved a significantly higher GPA than students in the control group.

Students in the intervention group were 62 % more likely to write «excellent» essays than the control group.

On all outcome measures, the intervention group means were higher than the control group means, although statistical tests did not yield significant differences between the groups.

Students exposed to the intervention also did much better on the TAAS reading test than did students in the control group.

Email intervention for non-dog owners also increased weekly minutes of walking compared with baseline measures and control groups, however dog owners accumulated significantly more walking minutes per week than non-dog owners.

Results from the negative binomial regression model demonstrated that more abnormal sites were identified in the intervention group than the control group.

The review shows that by age four the IQ scores of the intervention group children were 10 points higher than the control group.

For example, among participants who were sexually experienced at baseline, those in the 12 - hour combined abstinence and safer - sex intervention reported less sexual intercourse in the previous 3 months at the 6 -, 12 -, 18 - and 24 - month follow - up than the control group.

Comprehensive intervention also scored higher in condom use knowledge; believed more strongly that condoms can prevent pregnancy, STDs and HIV; believed more strongly that using condoms will not interfere with sexual enjoyment; expressed greater confidence that they could have condoms available when they needed them; and reported greater confidence that they could exercise sufficient impulse control to use condoms and greater self - efficacy for using condoms than did those in the control group.

In a subgroup analysis, non-depressed patients in the intervention group had less suicidal ideation than non-depressed patients in the control group at 2 and 6 months follow up (p < 0.01).

The ANCOVA analyses (table 2) indicated that the parents in the intervention group had improved their mental health more than the parents in the control group 2 months after the intervention (95 % CI, 2.02 to 5.18).

A standardised mean difference of 0 indicates that both groups had similar improvements; effects of − 0.5 or − 1 indicate that 69 % or 84 % of patients in the intervention group, respectively, had greater reductions on depression scores than the average patient in the control group.