A comparison was made with an age and gender
matched general population sample.
Therefore, this study investigated temperament traits and their associations with internalizing and externalizing problem behavior in young clinically referred children and compared the strenghts of these associations to an age and gender
matched general population sample.
Patients with mild Health anxiety and patients with a well - defined medical condition had scores similar to the age and gender
matched general population sample.
Not exact matches
Moreover, our intervention sites were hospitals and affiliated polyclinics
matched on a number of characteristics including geographical region and urban vs rural status, and the study
sample is representative of
general population of Belarus.
Compared to an age and sex
matched sample of the
general population, the diabetes prevalence in JIA patients was significantly increased, with approximately double the prevalence ratio for diabetes in JIA patients compared to controls (1.92 for girls and 2.04 for boys).
Comorbidity of empirically based syndromes in
matched general populations and clinical
samples
Similarly, the National Child Development Study in the UK, which has followed up a large
general population sample of children born in 1958, found that children from single - parent families were at greater risk for psychological problems than a
matched group of children from intact families not only in childhood (Ferri, 1976) but also in early adulthood (Chase - Lansdale et al., 1995) and middle age (Elliot and Vaitilingam, 2008).