Sentences with phrase «large effects of the intervention»

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Participating children had higher rates of high - school completion, lower rates of grade retention and special education placement, and a lower rate of juvenile arrests.32 Another example showing more intensive programming has larger impacts is the Healthy Steps evaluation showing significantly better child language outcomes when the program was initiated prenatally through 24 months.33 These studies suggest that a more intensive intervention involving the child directly may be required for larger effects to be seen.

And in fact, a larger - scale study suggests that simply implementing a bedtime routine without any behavioural interventions for infants can have significant positive effects for the sleep of the baby and the parents» well - being [8].

The Lancet reinforces other recent large scale evidence reviews such as aspecial issue of Acta Paediatrica, which stated that breastfeeding rates are responsive to interventions delivered in health systems, communities and homes, with the largest effects achieved when interventions are delivered in combination.

A small number of secondary prevention programs for fathers of young children have been conducted and evaluated.18 For example, Parent — Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), a short - term, evidence - based, training intervention for parents dealing with preschool children who display behavioural problems was evaluated in the Netherlands using a quasi-experimental design.19 The results showed a large effect on fathers» reports of child behaviour problems at the completion of the intervention.

«Future studies are needed to determine if the effect of this intervention is sustainable through the first 6 to 12 months of life, and if this intervention can significantly reduce the incidence of sleep - related death in large populations over time.»

«We'd like to replicate the program on a larger scale and are working on ways to extend the positive effect of the intervention.

Especially informative are the long - term studies on the effects of early childhood interventions, which indicate that an appropriate schooling of children as young as 3 years old produces remarkably large benefits for society, even in cases where the children do not perform significantly better academically.

The researchers say follow - up studies could explore questions such as what extent demographic changes — especially a larger population of older adults — will have on heat - related mortality, and the effect of specific interventions related to adaptation and greenhouse gas reductions.

The attendees developed a list of top research priorities and a research agenda for exercise in solid organ transplant, which includes the need to conduct large multicenter intervention studies, standardize measures of physical function in clinical trials, examine the benefits of novel types of exercise, and assess the effects of exercise on measures such as immunity, infection, and cognition.

The researchers were surprised by the strength of these emergent effects, which were as large as or even larger than the direct effects that triggered them: «It really makes you wonder how often we underestimate the full impact of social interventions,» says Powers.

The largest intervention study on a vegan diet that I know of showed better overall nutrient intake, but calcium was one nutrient that was very low Nutrient intake in the GEICO multicenter trial: the effects of a multicomponent worksite intervention.

These interventions present an unusual opportunity to study the long - term effects of large state investments in universal preschool education.

The gains are large when compared to other possible policy interventions, such as the effects of attending a school with higher average achievement levels or enrolling in a charter school.

Providing students with feedback had the largest effect size on learning of any intervention studied.

The bottom line, however, is that the ECO-C Intervention as a whole tends to have larger effects than any of its parts.

In a large randomized experiment such as this, we can estimate the effect of receiving the intervention by simply comparing the average outcomes of the treatment and control groups.

The magnitude of these benefits is larger than typically seen (effect sizes in the 0.3 to 0.6 range) for longitudinal outcomes of interventions restricted to preschoolers.

Maybe your intervention has a large effect size d if you manage to bring the group of learners together and lower the standard deviation.

Similarly, a large body of literature finds that professional development programs in general have mixed effects, but that some interventions have large effects.

These are large effect sizes, and are much bigger than most of those found for educational interventions.

This literature review has contributed significantly to our understanding of the evidence base for obesity prevention, including the participant, intervention, delivery, and design features that are associated with larger program effects.

In the second study, I evaluate the effects of a social - psychological intervention on increasing freshmen students» sense of social belonging at two large public universities in Indiana.

This project draws on two data sources — large - scale administrative data from middle and high school students in five large California school districts and a new nationally representative experimental test of a mindset intervention among 9th grade students — to analyze heterogeneity in the effect of a growth mindset on academic outcomes across different structural positions.

The larger scale of these studies reduces error, and their frequent use of a wider range of outcome measures allows more understanding of the range of effects of particular strategies or interventions.

Black and William report that studies of formative assessment show an effect size on standardized tests of between 0.4 and 0.7, larger than most known educational interventions.

In large - scale studies, these methods have proved valuable forlooking at a range of factors affecting achievement and measuring the effects of programs or interventions.

Six of them, Reading Recovery, Success for All, Sound Partners (1 - 1 tutoring by paraprofessionals), Lindamood (small group tutoring by teachers), Targeted Reading Intervention (1 - 1 tutoring by teachers), and Empower Reading (small group tutoring by teachers) all have large effect sizes from randomized experiments and have been proven in from two to 28 studies.

Without the real world «special effects» of massive global government intervention in the securities markets, we would have found the end of this unfolding securities horror movie would have been to find most large boats and all small boats in Davy Jones locker at the bottom of the economic ocean.

Geoengineering, the idea of deliberate, large - scale intervention in the Earth's climate system to help counteract the effects of global warming, has been in the news again.

Limitations include reliability on self - reported measures, statistically significant intervention effect sizes were not large in magnitude, and length of follow - up.

Participants showed significant improvement as a result of the intervention, with larger effects in the Hostile and Controlling subgroup.

Nevertheless, the MECSH trial showed some significant results and some trends that require replication in larger samples of mothers drawn from a similarly widely defined at - risk group, including older, multiparous mothers, and mothers with higher levels of education than have been reported in other trials.1 14 Mothers of infants and toddlers in the intervention group provided a home environment that was statistically significantly more supportive of their child's development through more verbal and emotional responsivity; however, the effect size was small.

While these effects are modest in size, they demonstrate that internet delivered cognitive behavioural therapy has the potential to be applied as a low intensity psychosocial intervention to large numbers of people being treated for cardiovascular disease, at minimal cost.

Our sample can be characterized as high risk (baseline ECBI T score > 55) 42 or at the borderline of clinical (T score > 60), 34 which is typical of previous randomized clinical trials of parent training for young children.41 The results across methods in this study are impressive given that effect sizes have been shown to be associated with the magnitude of symptom severity at baseline, 43 and thus it is typically more difficult to find large effects in prevention than in intervention trials.

Existing SNHV trials show relatively modest effects (effect sizes of 0.2 — 0.4 SDs) for outcomes such as child mental health and behaviour, and cognitive and language development, from infancy to mid - childhood.19 While effect sizes of 0.25 — 0.3 SDs can be meaningful and impactful at the whole of population level, 59 targeted public health interventions such as SNHV include a cost and intensity such that larger effects in the short - to - medium term might be necessary to justify implementation at a population level.

This study found that culturally tailored parenting support programme improved the mental health and sense of competence in parenting in Somali - born adults, with large effect sizes 2 months after the intervention ended.

In Denver, low - resource families who received home visiting showed modest benefits in children's language and cognitive development.102 In Elmira, only the intervention children whose mothers smoked cigarettes before the experiment experienced cognitive benefits.103 In Memphis, children of mothers with low psychological resources104 in the intervention group had higher grades and achievement test scores at age nine than their counterparts in the control group.105 Early Head Start also identified small, positive effects on children's cognitive abilities, though the change was for the program as a whole and not specific to home - visited families.106 Similarly, IHDP identified large cognitive effects at twenty - four and thirty - six months, but not at twelve months, so the effects can not be attributed solely to home - visiting services.107

This study of intervention effects is part of a larger ongoing longitudinal study of all consenting fifth - grade students in 18 public schools serving high - crime areas of Seattle, Wash..

Participants were drawn from a larger study examining (i) the effects of trauma on children over time and (ii) the efficacy of the SAFE Homes intervention, a DCF program in which children who have been removed from their parents» care are placed temporarily in state - run facilities rather than immediate foster care to facilitate assessment and treatment planning.

With a relatively larger (albeit still inadequate) body of literature, UCLA / Lovaas — based intervention and EIBI variant studies have revealed positive shifts in language, adaptive, cognitive, and educational outcomes, but our confidence (strength of evidence) in that effect is low because of the need for additional, confirmatory research, a lack of high - quality RCTs, and no studies that have directly compared effects of promising manualized treatment approaches.

The meta - analysis (Johnson et al, 1999) of the four most rigorous outcome studies conducted before the year 2000, showed a larger effect size (1.3) than any other couple intervention has achieved to date.

In this systematic review and meta - analysis, the medium - to - large effects of early childhood stimulation interventions on improving parenting outcomes in LMICs are demonstrated.

The current study suggests that the early stages of a national large - scale area - based intervention that has a focus on the coordination and integration of early childhood services can have beneficial effects for child receptive vocabulary, parenting and reducing jobless households.

The Every Family Initiative showed that a large scale population level parenting intervention was feasible and, moreover, Triple P can effect change in a range of important family risk and protective factors related to the development of children's mental health problems including depression.

The quasi-experimental design reduces spillover effects but does not eliminate the possibility of selection bias.41, 42 The use of prospectively identified control subjects was intended to minimize discrepancies in outcomes between the 2 designs.43 For some outcomes, as noted previously, the magnitude and direction of outcomes for intervention and control families at randomization and quasi-experimental sites were comparable, although they were statistically significant only at quasi-experimental sites and in the larger pooled sample.

To date, the immediate and lasting positive effects of quality care on language, cognitive development, and school achievement have been confirmed by converging findings from large, reasonably representative longitudinal studies and smaller, randomized trials with long - term follow - ups.1, 2,9 - 13 Contributors to this knowledge base include meta - analytic reviews of interventions and large longitudinal studies conducted in several countries.1, 2,14,15 Comprehensive meta - analyses now establish that effects of early care decline, but do not disappear, and when initial effects are large, long - term effects remain substantial.1, 2 Null findings in cognitive and social domains in a few studies may reasonably be attributed to the limitations inherent to their designs, samples, and measures.

A small number of secondary prevention programs for fathers of young children have been conducted and evaluated.18 For example, Parent — Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), a short - term, evidence - based, training intervention for parents dealing with preschool children who display behavioural problems was evaluated in the Netherlands using a quasi-experimental design.19 The results showed a large effect on fathers» reports of child behaviour problems at the completion of the intervention.

Many trials used volunteers or people selected by referrers as willing to take part in parenting projects, thus excluding many disorganised, unmotivated, or disadvantaged families, who have the most antisocial children.2 A review of meta - analyses of published trials of psychological treatments for childhood disorders found that in university settings the effect size was large, from 0.71 to 0.84 SD.12 In contrast, a review of six studies of outcome in regular service clinics since 1950 showed no significant effects, 12 and a large trial offering unrestricted access to outpatient services found no improvement.13 Reasons suggested for the poor outcome in clinic cases include that they have more severe problems, come from more distressed families, and receive less empirically supported interventions from staff with heavier caseloads.

The effects of the intervention on parental reports of behavioral difficulties were moderate at post-intervention and 3 - month follow - up, and large at 6 - month follow - up.

The effects of the intervention on parental reports of behavioral difficulties were moderate at postintervention and 3 - month follow - up, and large at 6 - month follow - up when compared to the control group.