Sentences with phrase «longitudinal studies point»

Four longitudinal studies point to the role of sleep problems in understanding externalizing behaviors in adolescence.

Not exact matches

In a longitudinal study called the Family Life Project, Blair and collaborators have tracked early signs of emotional regulation beginning at 7 months through several follow - up points.

We can't do longitudinal studies but we can point to other indicators.

At this point, longitudinal studies at the youth level are largely non-existent, Cantu admits.

The strongest research methods for psychological studies are: qualitative findings versus quantitative; experimental rather than descriptive or correlational; controlled - experiment, meta - analysis, and observation designs over archival, case study, computational modeling, content analysis, field experiment, interview, neuroimaging, quasi experiment, self - report inventory, random sample survey, or twin study; and prospective (where subjects are recruited prior to the proposed independent effects being administered) and longitudinal (where subjects are studied at multiple time points) rather than retrospective or cross-section study.

Published in the British Medical Journal Open, the longitudinal study of more than 60,000 Australians aged 45 years and above measured participants fruit and vegetable consumption, lifestyle factors and psychological distress at two time points, 2006 - 08 and 2010.

Dr. Zhang points out that the unique value of this study derives from the ability to perform longitudinal assessments of cognition in PD patients over a long time period and access to data from a large cohort that began when patients were in the earliest stage of disease.

And an even fewer number of studies have explored the longitudinal effects of doing meditation or spiritual practices by evaluating subjects at two different time points.

«These findings clearly indicate the need for further study,» said Dr. Lipshultz, while pointing to one of the study's key conclusions: «Subclinical differences in left ventricular structure and function with specific in - utero antiviral exposures indicate the need for a longitudinal study to assess long - term cardiac risk and cardiac monitoring recommendations.»

«Longitudinal studies following children into adulthood are needed to further understand at which point exposure translates to inflammatory and metabolic changes in order to capitalize on a potentially impactful period for primary intervention.»

Published today in the British Medical Journal Open, the longitudinal study of more than 60,000 Australians aged over 45 participating in the Sax Institute's 45 and Up Study measured fruit and vegetable consumption, lifestyle factors and psychological distress at two time points, 2006 - 08 and study of more than 60,000 Australians aged over 45 participating in the Sax Institute's 45 and Up Study measured fruit and vegetable consumption, lifestyle factors and psychological distress at two time points, 2006 - 08 and Study measured fruit and vegetable consumption, lifestyle factors and psychological distress at two time points, 2006 - 08 and 2010.

In a paper published earlier this year in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, researchers from Penn State University pointed out a flaw in alcohol studies based on large longitudinal study in the United Kingdom called the National Childhood DevelopmentStudies on Alcohol and Drugs, researchers from Penn State University pointed out a flaw in alcohol studies based on large longitudinal study in the United Kingdom called the National Childhood Developmentstudies based on large longitudinal study in the United Kingdom called the National Childhood Development Sstudy in the United Kingdom called the National Childhood Development StudyStudy.

It will be important to include assays of NK cell markers and functions in future longitudinal studies in order to investigate this point in detail as well as to consider the trace element zinc as an essential co-factor for optimal NK cell activity.

The participants — who listed their social contacts when they enrolled in the study in 1971, and at several points thereafter — are part of the Framingham Heart Study, a large longitudinal study that has examined heart disease risk factors in that Massachusetts town since study in 1971, and at several points thereafter — are part of the Framingham Heart Study, a large longitudinal study that has examined heart disease risk factors in that Massachusetts town since Study, a large longitudinal study that has examined heart disease risk factors in that Massachusetts town since study that has examined heart disease risk factors in that Massachusetts town since 1948.

Ideally, a study of predictive validity would be longitudinal, tracking the outcomes of students over at least three years, from the point when they complete each exam (in 10th grade) to the end of their first year in college.

Zimba points to a recent longitudinal study by the University of Missouri's David C. Geary, who notes that the kind of math that kindergarten students learn under Common Core — and which Burris calls developmentally inappropriate — is predictive of math literacy many years later.

To underscore this point, the Education Leader's Guide to Reading Growth reviews the well - known longitudinal study from The Annie E. Casey Foundation, which found that children who read proficiently in third grade were four times more likely to graduate high school by age 19 than peers who were not proficient in reading in third grade.

The report relies on data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study: Kindergarten Cohort, a nationally representative sample of kindergartners who were assessed in reading, mathematics, and general knowledge / science skills at six time points during the years 1998 — 2004.

Baumrind also points out that even when the study is well designed, the problem remains that many of these studies are cross-sectional rather than longitudinal.

Among the limits of the present study, it is possible to point out the necessity: 1) to replicate this investigation with a large number of Italian healthy adolescents for the representativeness of the sample; 2) to adopt the double analysis both for positive and negative affect, considering that literature review seems to indicate these two aspects as separate but equally important variables; and, finally, 3) to carry out a longitudinal study, from early adolescence to young adulthood, in order to emphasize the change in these aspects of youth development.

Missing data for longitudinal analysis (HOME Inventory, maternal health, depression, social support, stressful life events, family functioning and experience of being a mother) were dealt with using a three - step procedure to provide a balance between maintaining study power and minimising bias in parameter estimates.27 28 First, participants who had not completed any data points for these outcomes were deleted from analysis.

This study benefitted from a longitudinal design, with measures repeated at each time point so that we were able to examine cross-sectional data at both time points in additional to the prospective analysis.

Studies looking at practices at a single point in time, however, have found low rates of identification of parental distress by resident and faculty pediatricians.3, 8 To our knowledge, no studies in pediatrics, and only a few in other specialties,9 - 12 have examined care over time to see if it leads to improved identification of mental health problems, or if there are specific primary care provider skills important to identification of distress in longitudinal seStudies looking at practices at a single point in time, however, have found low rates of identification of parental distress by resident and faculty pediatricians.3, 8 To our knowledge, no studies in pediatrics, and only a few in other specialties,9 - 12 have examined care over time to see if it leads to improved identification of mental health problems, or if there are specific primary care provider skills important to identification of distress in longitudinal sestudies in pediatrics, and only a few in other specialties,9 - 12 have examined care over time to see if it leads to improved identification of mental health problems, or if there are specific primary care provider skills important to identification of distress in longitudinal settings.

For example, in a longitudinal study of over 20,000 American adolescents who were surveyed repeatedly over a 15 - year period, just 3 % of them reported never having had vaginal, anal, or oral sex at any point.

The strength of the study is the two - point in time longitudinal design that will enable us to investigate the relationship between stigmatising attitude towards PLWHA and professionalisation by looking at change (s) in attitudes over a time period.

To clarify the developmental relationship between children's temperament and parenting, more longitudinal studies are needed, especially ones that include statistical controls for parenting and temperament at earlier time points, allowing tests of temperament as predictors of change in parenting and tests of parenting as predictors of change in temperament.

At this point, many key research questions need to be addressed by the study of longitudinal relations between maternal depression, hypothesized family and child response processes, and multiple child outcomes.

The longitudinal Growing Up in Scotland (GUS) study provides an opportunity to explore links over time, based on measures obtained at discrete points in a child's life.

Years of research, including the longitudinal studies by Kelly & Wallerstein, as well as work by Kelly & Emery 2003, Hetherington & Kelly 2002, and Amato 2000 point to the differences in outcomes for children who come from divorced families.

In an extension to the findings of Kernan and Lepore, the present results suggest that it is not only benefit finding in the early stages of cancer treatment that predicts later distress but that this longitudinal relationship is found across the six yearly assessment points in the present study [21].

Using the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), we examined symptoms of ADHD measured by the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) hyperactivity subscale in relation to parent - reported changes in financial difficulty, grouped into four repeated measures at four time points across childhood; (n = 6416).

Second, our longitudinal study involved assessment of parental behavior at just one time point (i.e., parent - child interactions were studied at Time 1 only and parental reports of the HLE were gathered at Time 2 only) and so cross-lagged analyses to determine the direction of the association between parental behavior, EF and academic outcomes was not possible (Menard, 2002).

Many prospective and retrospective longitudinal studies of the risk factors that can affect developmental trajectories during a period of rapid brain growth have demonstrated that this sensitive period can be a tipping point leading to life - long health or disorder [28].

The longitudinal design of the study included three measurement points at 3 (T1), 9 (T2), and 18 (T3) months postpartum.

In Chapter 1, we pointed out the importance of longitudinal studies, which allow researchers to observe couples as they experience pregnancy and new parenthood.