Sentences with phrase «measured effects of their intervention»

Most randomized field trials involve measuring the effects of an intervention on individual research participants.

With the DESSA and Aperture Education's Evo Social / Emotional system, schools can measure the effects of an intervention throughout the year and also at the end of term.

Nine of the studies measured effects of their intervention on self - esteem, self - efficacy or social competence, using 12 measures to assess this.

Not exact matches

Studies of home visiting's effectiveness as an intervention designed to prevent child maltreatment demonstrate some promise, but compared to the number of studies conducted that measure child maltreatment, risk for maltreatment, or protective factors, there are far more findings of no effects than reductions in maltreatment and improvements in child and family well - being.

Standardised mean differences were derived to take account of the variety of behavioural outcome measures included and random effect models adopted in view of variability of the intervention and target populations across studies.

The main outcome measure was the effect of the interventions on stopping breastfeeding or breast milk feeding by specified points in time.

The effects of the dietary intervention, mode of feeding (breast - fed or formula - fed), and time were evaluated by using three - factor repeated - measures ANOVA for the outcomes of reported number of egg yolks consumed; reported consumption of meat, chicken, and fish; reported consumption of baby cereal; reported consumption of adult cereal; erythrocyte DHA and AA; plasma cholesterol; and indexes of iron status.

Science can help measure the scope, scale and impact of illegal wildlife trade, map illicit networks and assess the effect of social marketing and other interventions designed to reduce demand.

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.

They surmise that methods to measure clot contraction could be used for diagnosis of its effects on bleeding or thrombosis, and perhaps in the future these effects might even be modulated with therapeutic interventions.

It is required valid and consistent estimates of the prevalence of diabetes over time to assess the effects of the implemented interventions, to compare the trends among the different countries and to measure the progress towards achieving the goal agreed by UN.

The researchers from the University's Department of Social Policy and Intervention, and the Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm, studied the test scores measuring cognitive ability of children aged between 10 and 13, and found they had a strong effect on a child's subsequent educational performance.

To measure the effect of estrogen therapy on working memory under stress, Ycaza Herrera recruited 42 women with an average age of 66 from the USC Early versus Late Intervention Trial with Estradiol led by Howard Hodis, a professor at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and a coauthor of the new study.

Using publicly available datasets, we find that the mouse clock is accurate enough to measure effects on biological age, including in the context of interventions.

Abstract: This study examined the effects of a workplace - based resistance training intervention on different health -, fitness -, and work - related measures in untrained men (bus drivers).

I will emphasize again; only measuring blood glucose without knowing what insulin and leptin are doing gives very incomplete and often misleading information when it comes to effects of any intervention such as diet.

The effect of a health intervention on surrogate measures of risk is of only academic, nonclinical interest if the treatment does not reduce subsequent major health events such as the onset of diabetes, dementia, and CAD.

Inquiry - science intervention; measured impact of an urban instructional intervention in grades 3 - 5 using matched pre - and post-tests found substantial learning gains and a cumulative effect as students participate over several years.

This compelling knowledge base underscores three significant, unmet needs: (1) valid and reliable biological and bio-behavioral measures (or «biomarkers») of «toxic stress» to identify children who are at higher risk of chronic disease in adulthood; (2) more effective intervention strategies to prevent, reduce, or mitigate the long - term health consequences of significant adversity in early childhood; and (3) biomarkers that are sensitive to change and can thus be used to assess the short - term and medium - term effects of intervention strategies whose ultimate impacts on physical and mental health may not be apparent until decades later.

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.

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.

Response Effect sizes (ESs) are complex calculations, used to standardize measures of the impact of interventions.

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

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This study assessed the effects of participation in the Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch - up (ABC) intervention on child abuse potential, parenting stress, and child behavior in maltreated children and their foster parents.

An analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was performed to study the intervention effects on the dependent variables (ie, the GHQ items and the two subscales of the PSOC) by examining differences between the intervention and control group at follow - up, controlling for baseline measures.

Transition to school is seen as one of the best stages in a child's life to measure child development and well - being.12 — 14 Research has established that children at higher risk for suboptimal development can be better prepared for initial success at school through early childhood education, family support, paediatric and allied healthcare interventions and child health programmes.15 When children come to school with the developmental capacity to take advantage of the education system, coupled with a high - quality education system, the initial positive effects persist into adolescence and adulthood.15

Eight studies used 15 standardized psychiatric or behavioral symptom scales as their measure of outcome and in six studies, the intervention had a significant positive effect.

Conventional ANCOVA analyses of intervention group versus control group differences on (a) protective parenting behaviors directly targeted by the intervention and (b) general child management skills, in a sample of families residing in an economically stressed rural area (n = 209), showed significant intervention effects on both measures for both mothers and fathers.

We report on the development of the evidence base by examining the ACE survey scores in relationship to the established clinical measures of clinical severity, global function, and problem severity collected routinely for children and adolescents referred and accepted for treatment.29, 30 Systemwide implementation of the ACE survey, as a first step, positions CAAMHPP to become an evidence - based, trauma - informed service organization, because ACE survey scores necessarily must relate to clinical outcomes in order to evaluate the effect of trauma - focused interventions in clinical practice.

No significant interaction of intervention condition (control vs full) with the attrition variable was found for effects on related fifth - grade measures, reinforcing the internal validity of the study with respect to all comparisons of the full intervention and control groups.

In an additional test of attrition effects, the interaction of intervention condition with attrition was assessed with respect to each outcome variable reported inTable 3 by examining attrition - by - condition interaction effects on corresponding measures at fifth - grade entry.

Assuming a drop - out rate from the trial of approximately 20 %; this sample size was sufficient to detect a standardised effect size of 0.4 at 85 % power and α of 0.05 in the primary outcome measure if there was no clustering and a standardised effect size of 0.6 allowing for clustering by course with an intraclass correlation coefficient of 0.178 or less; for this sample size calculation, we conservatively imagined clustering within control families as well as intervention families.

The main purpose of this study was to validate the potential clinical use of ACE surveys in the formation and execution of clinical intervention plans that might help not only to focus clinical interventions but also to measure their effects differentially in relation to patients» particular ACE profiles.

For example, the Queensland study documented higher - quality home environments for families in the intervention.75 Likewise, positive effects were observed on measures of the home environment in Alaska.76 Among multi-component programs, both Early Head Start77 and the Infant Health and Development Program78 reported higher - quality home environments in the intervention groups, though effect sizes tended to be small.

For all outcomes measured at baseline, we used statistical adjustment for these baseline scores, providing a test of the intervention's effect on change after enrollment.

Indeed, Jay Belsky incorporated all of these risk factors into his process model of parenting, 11 and data from multiple studies support links to child well - being.12 In an experiment on the effectiveness of a program for low - birth - weight infants, Lawrence Berger and Jeanne Brooks - Gunn examined the relative effect of both socioeconomic status and parenting on child abuse and neglect (as measured by ratings of health providers who saw children in the treatment and control groups six times over the first three years of life, not by review of administrative data) and found that both factors contributed significantly and uniquely to the likelihood that a family was perceived to engage in some form of child maltreatment.13 The link between parenting behaviors and child maltreatment suggests that interventions that promote positive parenting behaviors would also contribute to lower rates of child maltreatment among families served.

(i) For each of the outcome variables, a linear regression was performed for each student group, which provides measures of the linear trends as effects of the intervention.

Standardised effect sizes and CI for differential effects of the CfC intervention for low levels of maternal education of measures that show at least one significant difference between CfC and comparison communities

There is evidence that the CfC intervention has had a positive effect on a range of outcome measures (four of 19 outcomes), specifically increasing children's receptive vocabulary and verbal ability, reducing the number of jobless households and improving parenting practices (reduction in harsh or hostile parenting and greater parenting self - efficacy).

For psychological distress as measured by the Brief Symptom Index - 1S, the effect of the Intervention on the trajectory of distress for patients was associated with participant educational attainment.

We evaluated effects of demographics and cortisol measures on attrition that might limit generalization and differential group attrition that might bias estimates of intervention effects.

Standardised effect sizes and CI for differential effects of the CfC intervention for low - income households of measures that show at least one significant difference between CfC and comparison communities

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.

Abstract: The effects of a workplace design and training intervention and the relationships between perceived satisfaction of office workplace design factors (layout and storage) and work performance measures (individual performance, group collaboration and effectiveness) were studied with 120 office workers using the Workplace Environment Questionnaire.

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.

As a first step, it is important to evaluate the effects of attachment - based interventions that include infant attachment disorganization as an outcome measure (see below), but in the next step interventions that are specifically designed to prevent insecure disorganized attachment should be tested.

The effects of a workplace design and training intervention and the relationships between perceived satisfaction of office workplace design factors (layout and storage) and work performance measures (individual performance, group collaboration and effectiveness) were studied with 120 office workers using the Workplace Environment Questionnaire.

Recently, a narrative review and quantitative meta - analysis has been completed including 15 preventive interventions that included infant disorganized attachment as an outcome measure.9 Although the overall effect of all interventions combined was not significant, some interventions did succeed in preventing disorganized attachment in children.

One method is to measure a number of variables that could possibly influence A and B groups differently and «subtract them» from the outcome to see if any effect of the intervention remains.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This study examined the effects of Child - Centered Play Therapy (CCPT) compared to a curriculum - based small group intervention with Hispanic children referred for school counseling due to behavior problems.