Not exact matches
Past psychological autopsy studies implicate depression in the majority of
late - life suicides; however, when study
participants were asked by psychiatrists about thoughts of death and suicide using a standard depression screening tool, elderly adults blamed factors
other than depression 75 % of the time.
A group of Harvard epidemiologists analyzed data from the 121,700 -
participant, three - decade - long Nurses» Health Study and found that middle - aged women who drink a glass of wine a day (or its equivalent) are 20 percent less likely
than nondrinkers to suffer from age - related memory impairment and
other cognitive problems
later in life.
A 2008 study that followed a group of adolescent women with ADHD for five years found that the
participants who had been treated with stimulants were nearly 75 % less likely to develop a substance - use disorder
than those who were not, while
other research has shown that the use of ADHD medication in young men reduces the risk of
later substance - use disorders by 85 %.
Savitz - Romer and Bouffard led an exercise in which they asked each
participant to write — on green paper leaves that would be
later be added to a paper tree — a reason for going to college
other than to eventually make more money.
The size of the CfC impacts on most outcomes was small, but can be considered positive relative to what was observed in the early phase of the UK Sure Start evaluation.3 The current results are also comparable in size to those found in the
later impact evaluation of the Sure Start programme, in which 3 - year - old children were exposed to mature SSLP throughout their entire lives.4 Reviews of the effectiveness of early childhood interventions have found that most studies reported effect sizes on parenting and child outcomes that were small to moderate.14 15 When comparing CfC and SSLP with
other interventions, it is important to remember that the evaluations of these interventions measured effects on an entire population, rather
than on programme
participants, as is the case in the evaluation of many
other interventions.
It may be that those studies which found stronger associations between CSA and
later parenting stress included
participants who experienced CSA at an earlier age
than the
other studies which did not find significant associations.