Sentences with phrase «outcome of a single study»

Research articles describe the outcome of a single study.

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Our use of observational data reflects the existing literature on lactation and maternal health; apart from a single randomized trial examining the effect of exclusive lactation duration on maternal weight loss, 48 there are no published studies of maternal health outcomes in randomized trials of breastfeeding.

In the first study ever to combine maternal and pediatric health outcomes from breastfeeding in a single model, Harvard researcher Dr. Melissa Bartick and colleagues published a new study showing that most of the impact from optimal breastfeeding the US in on maternal health.

In this study, we ascertained outcomes of all planned home births attended by registered midwives in an entire health region with a single - payer universal health care system.

Researchers supporting co-parenting identified a number of fundamental methodological flaws of recent studies that challenge co-parenting of infants and young children: the failure to interview both parents, small and non-representative samples and use of unreliable and invalid measures, and the fact that even these studies have actually found no significant differences in child outcomes in single versus co-parenting families.

That there will only be a single question is a good example of something well known to those that study social choice theory: the power that someone with control over the agenda has over the outcome of voting.

The FOR - HOME study followed up 400 single homeless people who were moved from hostels and other temporary accommodation into independent housing in London, Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire to determine the long - term outcomes of resettlement.

«Although radiosurgery has been shown to be an effective post-surgical treatment for metastatic brain tumors, previous studies did not compare patient outcomes from a single hospital over the same period of time,» said N. Scott Litofsky, M.D., chief of the Division of Neurological Surgery at the MU School of Medicine and senior author of the study.

The majority of previous studies on thyroid surgery complications have been from single institutions, often high - volume centers, which are known to have better outcomes.

The original, randomized, open label study, which enrolled 20 outpatient men with cirrhosis and recurrent HE receiving standard - of - care (SOC) treatment, had previously reported that a single FMT enema after antibiotic pretreatment improved cognitive function at Day 20 and reduced HE episodes and hospitalizations over the following 5 months compared with SOC.1 The long - term outcomes of this study, which were presented today at The International Liver Congress ™ 2018 in Paris, France, demonstrated sustained and statistically significant reductions in the number of HE episodes and hospitalizations as well as improvements in cognitive function over 1 year in the men who received FMT compared with the control group.

A new study from the University of Colorado Denver finds that scientists agree that children of same - sex parents experience «no difference» on a range of social and behavioral outcomes compared to children of heterosexual or single parents.

This study further investigated the impact of nicotine use / smoking status and variation in the mu opioid receptor gene (OPRM1), specifically, an A118G single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP, or DNA sequence variation), on the effects of naltrexone on a range of drinking outcomes.

«Identifying these gene variants linked to both type 2 diabetes and CHD risk in principle opens up opportunities to lower the risk of both outcomes with a single drug,» said study co-senior author Danish Saleheen, PhD, an assistant professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology.

«In this study, we have a narrow focus on diabetes only,» wrote Tolstrup, «but since alcohol is related to more than 50 different diseases and conditions — reflecting that alcohol affects virtually every organ system of the body — any recommendations about how to drink and how much to drink should not be inferred from this study or any study investigating associations between alcohol and a single outcome.»

Studying cancer with single - cell technology will allow us to unlock the interactions between different types of cells in tumors — and monitor how these interactions change over time, affecting patients» outcomes.

[1] Mind - body medicine: state of the science, implications for practice [2] Effects of guided imagery on postoperative outcomes in patients undergoing same - day surgical procedures: a randomized, single - blind study [3] Guided imagery: a significant advance in the care of patients undergoing elective colorectal surgery [4] Relaxation techniques: Try these steps to reduce stress [5] Champion Novak Djokovic Reveals the Power of Visualization

Disappointments with outcomes - based studies investigating α - tocopherol are, in large part, the result of abstracting this single compound from the vitamin E family and ignoring the interplay among the eight isomers that constitute natural vitamin E. Best clinical outcomes will be achieved with vitamin E supplementation providing mixed tocopherols and tocotrienols in ratios similar to those found in nature.

While this single study certainly doesn't constitute a proven scientific outcome, the results of a randomized controlled trial conducted in Boston certainly supports the real - world potential for co-treating our mind, along with our body to achieve better fertility outcomes.

Moreover, single - sex education may have other drawbacks, regardless of its potential impact on the outcomes examined in this study.

Of course, policy should not turn on the results of any single study, as issues are complex and outcomes can vary over time and placOf course, policy should not turn on the results of any single study, as issues are complex and outcomes can vary over time and placof any single study, as issues are complex and outcomes can vary over time and place.

Two recent experimental evaluations of the Louisiana Scholarship Program found negative effects of the program on student test scores but one study was limited to just a single year of outcome data and the second one (which I am leading) has only analyzed two years of outcome data so far.

It's this perspective that dredges up findings like: 70 percent of elementary programs don't require a single basic science course of their candidates (neither through their ed coursework or their general university requirements), or one in four secondary programs don't require a full subject - specific methods course, or one in five programs we were able to study on their use of outcomes data don't conduct surveys of their grads.

But a single literature review from Greg Forster at the Friedman Foundation is perhaps most revealing: eleven of twelve random - assignment studies have showed improved academic outcomes of students who participated in voucher programs.

PICO questionIn adult dogs, does feeding a raw food diet alter urine composition compared to a kibble diet?Clinical bottom lineThe evidence provided by the single study identified is weak and the outcomes can neither support nor challenge the hypothesis that a raw food diet increases the risk of urinary calculi compared to a kibble diet.

Given that a number of other animal control programs and regulatory changes were implemented during the study period, separating out the effects of a single program may be impossible... Data were not collected on how many adoptable versus nonadoptable cats were impounded, so it was not possible specifically to assess changes in outcomes for feral cats, only changes in overall cat outcomes... it can be stated that the implementation of sterilization of feral cats as part of a TNR program did not result in negative changes.

«The results of single studies suggest that music listening may reduce the need for anesthetics and analgesics, as well as decreased recovery time and duration of hospitalization,» says Bradt and her team, «but more research is needed for these outcomes.»

Relatively little is known about social gradients in developmental outcomes, with much of the research employing dichotomous socioeconomic indicators such as family poverty.2 5 16 Thus, it is unclear whether poor developmental outcomes exhibit threshold effects (evident only when a certain level of disadvantage is exceeded), gradient effects (linear declines with increasing disadvantage) or accelerating effects (progressively stronger declines with increasing disadvantage) as suggested by some recent studies.17 — 19 Further, most research has examined socioeconomic patterns for single childhood outcomes1 or for multiple outcomes within the physical3 4 or developmental17 18 20 health domains.

The FFCWS studies add to a large body of earlier work that suggested that children who live with single or cohabiting parents fare worse as adolescents and young adults in terms of their educational outcomes, risk of teen birth, and attachment to school and the labor market than do children who grow up in married - couple families.

Many studies also investigated the secondary outcome of women's satisfaction with their decision to hold or have other contact with the baby, typically measured through a study - specific, single Likert - scale item.

Many studies link inept parenting by resident single parents with a variety of negative outcomes among children, including poor academic achievement, emotional problems, conduct problems, low self - esteem, and problems forming and maintaining social relationships.

A total of 124 out of 289 TPUs were included.31 Such a sampling strategy has been previously used in single - country23 and multicountry32 studies that investigated associations of environmental attributes with behavioural outcomes (eg, physical activity) related to depression.33 34 Further details on the neighbourhood selection procedure are reported elsewhere.28 35

Other studies, however, have found few racial differences in the estimated effects of growing up with a single parent on long - term outcomes.40

And given that recent cohorts of children born to single and cohabiting parents are relatively young, an additional complication involves comparing outcomes across studies (that is, analysts can not yet estimate effects of family structure on adolescent and adult outcomes for cohorts such as FFCWS).

For children who were pre-adolescent and in early adolescence at the beginning of these studies, negative impacts on schooling outcomes (e.g. grade repetition) are found, regardless of whether the program included earnings supplements or not.21 These negative effects were most pronounced for adolescents with younger siblings, suggesting that single parents may have relied on their adolescents for the care of the younger children as they went to work, and these responsibilities may have impeded adolescents» schooling.

Broad demographic studies of the flexible and ill - defined «fatherless homes» populations, which indicate complex and multi-causated reasons for the (actually small) negative outcomes suffered by a minority of children in these «single mother home» groups are twisted, baselessly, into the political rhetoric that children «need» or «benefit» from having two parents.

In it Wampold, a former statistician studying primarily outcomes with depressed patients, reported that (1) psychotherapy can be more effective than placebo, (2) no single treatment modality has the edge in efficacy, and (3) factors common to different psychotherapies, such as whether or not the therapist has established a positive working alliance with the client / patient, account for much more of the variance in outcomes than specific techniques or modalities.

Most studies of marriage and divorce, especially in Sociology and Social Welfare, attempt to link couple status (married, cohabiting, divorced, single) with child and family outcomes.

In study after study of children at risk, the single strongest predictor of resilient outcome is a positive, lasting relationship with a supportive adult.

When a single study provides multiple measures of the same outcome (e.g. two measures are used to assess child behaviour problems) we will average the effects from the outcomes to arrive at a single effect for use in the meta - analysis.

Of the nine intervention studies in 1987 — 1988, five were controlled experimental designs (two randomised controlled trials, three non-randomised controlled trials) and four were non-experimental designs (two single - group designs; two described only process variables or components of the intervention delivered rather than outcomesOf the nine intervention studies in 1987 — 1988, five were controlled experimental designs (two randomised controlled trials, three non-randomised controlled trials) and four were non-experimental designs (two single - group designs; two described only process variables or components of the intervention delivered rather than outcomesof the intervention delivered rather than outcomes).

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This study investigated the role of Big Brothers in the separation - individuation process of adolescents from single - parent families in the Big Brothers Big Sisters of America (BBBSA) program..

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of filial therapy [now called Child - Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT)-RSB- as a method of prevention and intervention for single parents and their children.

Limitations of the study include small sample size, the single cause of PTSD symptoms (all were in motor vehicle accidents), and the fact that a single therapist completed the treatment and outcome assessments.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) The study examined the efficacy and maintenance of developmentally adapted Prolonged Exposure Therapy for Adolescents (PE - A) compared with active control time - limited dynamic therapy (TLDP - A) for decreasing posttraumatic and depressive symptoms in adolescent victims of single - event traumas.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This study evaluated the effectiveness of the Step - by - Step Parenting Skills Program to carry out a task analysis of basic childcare skills (feeding and bathing); to conduct thorough behavioral assessments of young, vulnerable, single parents; to use modeling, feedback and reinforcement procedures to increase basic childcare skills; and to assess the effect of childcare skill training on the child's welfare.

Studies of WIDOWED homes show little difference in childrearing outcomes between these «single mother households» and «intact families.»

Fact: «Although early research suggests that youth living in two - parent biological families fare better on a range of developmental outcomes than those in single - parent or alternative structures (Amato and Keith, 1991), this research typically finds that effects of family structure on developmental outcomes such as delinquency are not strong (Hetherington and Kelly, 2002)... More tangible differences in family dynamics or circumstances — such as supervision practices — are largely responsible when study groups have different outcomes... The highest rates of delinquency were for youth in father - only households, followed by father - stepmother...»

Thus, the integration of outcome and process in a single study remains at a rudimentary stage (Dabholkar and Overby, 2005)[7].

The current study's procedure was different from previous studies on treatment fidelity in PMTO (Forgatch and DeGarmo 2011; Forgatch et al. 2005; Hukkelberg and Ogden 2013) in a number of ways: the present study (a) included multiple outcome measures of PMTO instead of only parenting practices or externalizing behavior; (b) examined the FIMP dimensions separately instead of using a mean or a single construct; and (c) examined the association between fidelity scores and treatment outcome at different assessment points.

Although more studies are certainly needed to replicate and extend these findings (particularly given the cross-sectional design and limited measurement of sleep and outcome domains), this study offers an important reminder to researchers to not overstate findings from any single study that is unable to consider all potential confounds.