Sentences with phrase «more than the comparison group»

Results showed that the behavior of children of ACT Raising Safe Kids parents improved significantly more than the comparison group from pretest to posttest on the Conduct Problems subscale of the SDQ.

Not exact matches

But new left groups became increasingly doctrinal toward the end of the «60s and remain today more oriented to doctrine than experience in comparison with religious and human potential groups.

Today, as adults, they earn an average of 25 percent more per year than the subjects whose parents didn't receive home visits; by a variety of measures, including wages, these formerly delayed infants have now caught up with a comparison group of their peers who didn't show any signs of delay in infancy.

• When fathers of four - week - old infants were given a brief training in baby massage and the Burleigh Relaxation Bath technique with a particular emphasis on the father - infant relationship they were more involved with their infants (than a comparison group of fathers) two months on.

«Fathers at Work», a more recent multli - site US demonstration project which, like previous programmes, combined work around fathering with training / employment support reports participants earning $ 11,025 per year at follow - up (about twice as much as a comparison group and on average $ 4,602 more than before entering the programme).

Participants with support orders in place paid an average of $ 90.32 in child support in the month before the follow - up interview, significantly more than was paid by comparison group fathers (an average of $ 38.13).

Many of the comparisons that were undertaken were invalidated by the fact that more than one of the four key characteristics (i.e. group versus one to one, length; child involvement; adjunctive treatment) was varied.

Clients in the home birth group were more likely to report the use of tobacco during pregnancy than the midwife comparison group and were more likely to report the use of illicit drugs during pregnancy than the physician comparison group.

Five babies in the home birth group required assisted ventilation for more than 24 hours, compared with none in either comparison group.

Comparison of 2010 ethnic minority vote choices on the (also online) YouGov web panel with the more comprehensive Ethnic Minority British Election Study (EMBES) conducted in that same year shows that Tory support in the online sample is 10 points higher, and Labour support 13 - 18 points lower, than among the equivalent groups in the EMBES.

The second theory, comparative reference group theory, centers on comparison: The more status others in your network have than you, the worse you will feel about yourself.

The grades earned by the 901 students in the course featuring daily quizzes were, on average, about half a letter grade higher than those earned by a comparison group of 935 of Pennebaker and Gosling's previous students, who had experienced a more traditionally designed course covering the same material.

The factors that may differ between the groups, such as older age, obesity, smoking and diabetes, are known and can be controlled for, providing for comparison groups that may provide more information on the impact of heart failure on subsequent cancer occurrence than other heart disease groups.

By stimulating this region of the brain, the Alzheimer's subjects cognitive and daily functional abilities as a whole declined more slowly than Alzheimer's patients in a matched comparison group not being treated with DBS,» he said.

And protein accounted for considerably more of their energy intake (22 %) than it did in the comparison group (15 - 16 %).

Of the 1,551 women with early - stage breast cancer who were randomized to the comparison group of the WHEL study, more than half (864, or 56 percent) were taking tamoxifen, and more than three - quarters of those (674, or 78 percent) reported hot flashes.

Although all groups of db / db mice weighed significantly more than WT mice [Fig. 1 (a — d); effect of genotype, F1, 36 = 76.55, P < 0.001], db / db mice exposed to TE weighed significantly less than SED db / db mice at the end of the experiment [Fig. 1 (d); post hoc comparison, db / db SED vs db / db WBV, not significant; db / db SED vs db / db TE, t14 = 3.75, P < 0.01].

The unit consists of 10 businesses, including online dating site Parship Elite Group and energy price - comparison business Verivox, and generated more than $ 650 million of revenue in 2017.

Students in Word Generation schools learned more of the target words than students in comparison schools, even though the latter group performed at a higher level at the start.

As expected, the students in Word Generation schools learned more of the target words than students in comparison schools, even though the latter group performed at a higher level at the start.

In addition, students who leave KIPP are no more likely than those who stay to be FRPL - eligible (both groups have high eligibility rates) or to be in special education, whereas students who leave comparison middle schools are more likely than those who stay to be FRPL - eligible and to participate in special education programs.

• In schools transitioning gradually over two to three years, significantly more students in OC classrooms made high growth in the second year than in non-OC classrooms in the same and similar schools — by March 2015, 42 percent to 70 percent more made high growth, depending on the comparison group.

This was corroborated in lesson observations in which researchers observed students in flipped learning classes moving more quickly onto task than students in the comparison group.»

In comparison, only three per cent of the control group not using the app improved by more than one year in reading age.

For example, comparisons of the transcripts of 1990 and 2009 high school graduates reveal that larger percentages of 2009 graduates from all major racial and ethnic groups completed a rigorous curriculum than did comparable 1990 graduates, and, on average, 2009 graduates completed about 420 more hours of coursework than did 1990 graduates.

Also, what really matters here is not whether poverty increased in New Orleans, but whether poverty increased more than in the comparison group.

• Value - added results, which have recently been touted as a better way to use standardized test scores, are actually no more accurate than year - to - year comparisons of different groups of students.

Students taking part in the dual enrollment courses also persisted in their postsecondary studies at a higher rate, and they accumulated more college credits than the comparison group - and the advantages in credit accrual grew as the students progressed through college.

New principals in the exemplary programs reported more positive beliefs, and fewer negative ones, about the principalship than new principals in the comparison group.

They learned more words than students in the comparison group, who participated in traditional read - alouds.

According to the new research out of Mathematica, a statistical research group, the comparisons sometimes used to judge school performance are more indicative of demographic change than actual learning.

A study that used a nationally representative sample of students who began postsecondary education in 2003 showed that students who took dual enrollment courses were 10 % more likely to complete a bachelor's degree than the comparison group.

The benefits were even greater forstudents whose parents had not attended college; they were 12 % more likely to complete a bachelor's degree than the comparison group.

The comment / request to provide more than a one - to - one comparison in that rather than just one fund potentially replacing another fund, or rather than a group of funds being replaced by the same number of replacement funds is precisely why we are rolling an additional service with our Online Portfolio Analysis and Monitoring Service in the weeks and months ahead.

One disadvantage of these Group Life insurance plans is that they generally cost much more than if you had bought the same policy through an independent agent who can comparison shop multiple companies for you.

Google has formed a partnership with Comparenow, an American auto insurance comparison site owned by Admiral Group, a British car insurance company that has operated a European price - comparison site for more than a decade.

Results Mothers receiving the intervention were more emotionally and verbally responsive (HOME observation) during the first 2 years of their child's life than comparison group mothers (mean difference 0.5; 95 % CI 0.1 to 0.9).

Intervention group mothers who had been psychosocially distressed antenatally provided a significantly more emotionally and verbally responsive environment than psychosocially distressed comparison group mothers.

Mothers who were psychosocially distressed antenatally, first - time mothers and mothers born overseas who received intervention, however, were more likely to report a more positive experience of being a mother than those same subgroups of mothers in the comparison group.

First - time mothers, overseas - born mothers and mothers with more than one risk factor in the intervention group also were more emotionally and verbally responsive than their comparison group counterparts; however, the effect sizes were small.

Covariates were included if they differed statistically between the intervention and comparison groups at baseline or if inclusion in an analytic model caused point estimates of effect size to vary by more than 10 %.

Children who received ESDM also were more likely to experience a change in diagnosis from autism to pervasive developmental disorder, not otherwise specified, than the comparison group.

At 24 months, more intervention recipients than comparison enrollees were up to date for immunizations (90 % vs 85 %; adjusted RR, 1.06 [95 % CI, 1.02 - 1.09]-RRB-; among intervention recipients, full immunization was significantly more common in the PP+HS group (92 %) than in the HS - only group (88 %).

Parents in the care coordination group who reported being satisfied with their care rated their PCPs as more helpful than did the comparison families.

Between - group comparisons showed that short term psychotherapy was more effective than no treatment or treatment as usual (p < 0.01 for comparison of post-treatment effect sizes for target and general symptoms and social functioning) but there was no difference between short term and other forms of psychotherapy (15 studies, p = 0.69 for comparison of post-treatment effect sizes for target and general and social functioning).

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This study compares outcomes for women and children across three treatment (Arkansas CARES) groups: clients who stayed in treatment less than 30 days (early drop - out), those who stayed in more than 30 days but did not complete treatment (late drop - out), and those who completed the program (graduates).

Externalizing symptoms decreased more rapidily in the MDFT group than the comparison group; there was no difference on internalizing symptoms.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This study investigated whether Multidimensional Family Therapy (MDFT) was more effective than Cognitive - Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in treatment - seeking adolescents with a DSM - IV cannabis use disorder.

Domitrovich, Cortes, and Greenberg (2007) found that the intervention group scored significantly better than the comparison group on the Assessment of Children's Emotions Scale — Accuracy, meaning children exposed to PATHS ® had a larger receptive emotion vocabulary and were more accurate in identifying feelings.

Intervention classrooms had a more positive atmosphere, a higher level of interest and enthusiasm, and a greater ability to stay focused than comparison group classrooms.