Sentences with phrase «outcomes at baseline»

After controlling for demographic characteristics there were no statistically significant differences in outcomes at baseline and also no evidence of differential attrition.

Table 2 displays means and 95 % confidence intervals for outcomes at baseline and each follow - up assessment.

For example, some studies did not take into consideration student outcomes at baseline; other studies did not compare student outcomes to a control group.

Not exact matches

«After that, the most likely outcome is that discretionary spending grows at least as fast as inflation, from that new, much higher baseline,» says Riedl.

The second question is related to the above: a «free market» baseline of justice is about procedure - how outcomes are arrived at, who is involved in making decisions, has rights over their own actions, how actions are agreed by parties etc. (or something like that) whereas equality is an outcome, that may or may not be achieved under various procedural arrangements, and may or may not be viewed as desirable by people who hold different views about what forms of society - specifications over who has what rights to do what to who.

The researchers compared patients who received antidepressant medication at discharge with those who did not with regard to baseline characteristics and one - year outcomes including mortality, a subsequent heart attack, and stroke.

The study had detailed information on participants reported at baseline recruitment, including self - reported exercise participation between the ages of 13 and 19, adult lifestyle - related factors, and mortality outcomes.

«Intuitively, many had thought that men with «poor» nutritional status at baseline may benefit more from long - term multivitamin use on cardiovascular outcomes; however, we did not see any evidence for this in our recent analysis,» said corresponding author Howard Sesso, ScD, MPH, of the Division of Preventive Medicine and the Division of Aging at BWH.

Chi's presentation focused on first - line treatment outcomes and correlations with deep targeted sequencing of circulating tumor (ctDNA) that occurred at baseline.

Secondary outcome measures include serum antibody levels and activity of anti - FMP 2.1 measured against recombinant 3D7 AMA1 at baseline and at specified times during and after immunization.

Outcomes: Blood pressure measurements will be obtained using random - zero sphygmomanometers at baseline and during the trial at weeks 6 and 12.

A research assistant will be supervised by Dr. Kim and will be responsible for organizing a student - level data set that will be used for the impact analyses, cleaning the data set at each wave of data collection, monitoring and reporting attrition across waves, and conducting descriptive analyses to check for baseline equivalence, attrition across waves, and posttest differences on the child - level outcomes.

In this randomized controlled trial involving 312 students enrolled in an after - school program, we generated intention - to - treat (ITT) and treatment - on - the - treated (TOT) estimates of the program's impact on several literacy outcomes of fourth, fifth, and sixth graders reading below proficiency on a state assessment at baseline.

Lower case a-h refer to how the literature was addressed in terms of up / downscaling (a — clearly defined global impact for a specific ΔT against a specific baseline, upscaling not necessary; b — clearly defined regional impact at a specific regional ΔT where no GCM used; c — clearly defined regional impact as a result of specific GCM scenarios but study only used the regional ΔT; d — as c but impacts also the result of regional precipitation changes; e — as b but impacts also the result of regional precipitation change; f — regional temperature change is off - scale for upscaling with available GCM patterns to 2100, in which case upscaling is, where possible, approximated by using Figures 10.5 and 10.8 from Meehl et al., 2007; g — studies which estimate the range of possible outcomes in a given location or region considering a multi-model ensemble linked to a global temperature change.

Since we found baseline differences in race / ethnicity and clinic site by treatment group, we also conducted multivariate analyses to control for these variables on outcomes including EC use, unprotected intercourse, contraceptive method change, frequency of condom use, and condom use at last intercourse.

Primary outcome: treatment response defined variably; number of patients with at least a 50 % reduction from baseline score on a condition relevant scale: the Hamilton Anxiety Scale for generalised anxiety disorder (GAD), the Panic Disorder Severity Scale or the Sheehan Panic Anxiety Scale — Patient for panic disorder, the Brief Social Phobia Scale or the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale for social phobia or a Clinical Global Impressions — Improvement (CGI - I) score of 1 or 2.

Consistent with a hypothesis that data are missing at random, several baseline demographic, but not outcome, variables predicted missingness including marital status (odds ratio [OR] = 3.4), parent age (OR = 0.92), child age (OR = 1.96), and non-white or Hispanic race / ethnicity (OR = 2.6).

In addition, there were no differences among conditions on outcome variables at baseline.

The relation of maternal remission to child outcomes was also examined separately among children with and without a diagnosis at baseline.

Categorical outcomes for depression (50 % decrease in depression scores on symptom checklist and major depression by structured clinical interview for DSM - IV) since baseline assessment at three and six month blinded outcome assessments in patients receiving usual care (n = 196), feedback only (n = 221), and care management (n = 196)

All measures were collected during a home visit to the families at baseline (within 2 months of the start of the programme) and at 9 months from baseline (ie, 6 months postcompletion of intervention).55 In addition, self - completion questionnaires covering the parent / self - report outcomes were collected at baseline, 3 months and 9 months.55 Data on the resources associated with the implementation of FLNP were collected from structured interviews with key staff at each of the four study sites, collection of financial information at each site (eg, estimates of room hire and crèche facilities) and discussions with the main trial team.55

Five self - report questionnaires will be used at baseline and, except for the sociodemographic variables, after the intervention is completed (12, 18 and 24 months later) to evaluate the short - term and long - term effects of the intervention on primary (health) and secondary (social participation, life satisfaction and healthcare services utilisation) outcomes and to describe the participants (table 1).

The primary outcome was a composite index providing two scales representing negative parenting and supportive parenting measured at baseline and 9 months.

For the secondary aims, the analyses will be performed both for differences in changes between the intervention and the control group and for differences between groups at different time points (baseline at inclusion, childbirth, 6 — 8 weeks and 1 year postpartum) in maternal metabolic health outcomes, maternal mental health outcomes and offspring metabolic and mental health outcomes.

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.

Outcome analyses used SPSS (IBM SPSS Statistics, IBM Corporation; Predictive Analytics Software [PASW] 18) and HLM - 6.35 For child and parent outcomes, a piecewise growth curve modeling approach36 with an intercept representing baseline levels of functioning and 2 linear slope factors representing change over time was estimated for each family at the model's first level.

For initial exploratory analyses, no such correction will be used.178 For the partners, we will evaluate changes between groups and differences between groups at different time points (baseline at inclusion, 1 year postpartum) in weight and paternal eating behaviour and mental health outcomes.

Table 1 compares the proportional distributions of responses for each ACE item collected in cross-section for a single admission (at the time of and during the course of admission) or on the basis of data linkage by each individual patient registration to the clinical profile data with baseline data from the first admission and outcomes data from the last discharge.

As in previous reports, the baseline covariates served as adjustments for potential differences between intervention and control families that resulted from nonrandom assignment at quasi-experimental sites or selective reporting of outcome data.

The baseline covariates serve as adjustment for potential differences between intervention and control families that resulted from nonrandom assignment at quasi-experimental sites or selective reporting of outcome data.29 Results of these adjusted analyses are reported as ORs for dichotomous variables and as differences in means for continuous outcomes.

Analyses controlled for baseline scores on each outcome measure, as well as for both the youth's self - reported depression and the severity score on a self - report screening measure for adolescent substance abuse, at baseline.

Baseline and outcome data were measured by validated questionnaires completed by the primary care giver.5 11 The baseline questionnaires at age 7 months measured sociodemographic details, infant difficult temperament, maternal mental health and family stress and, at 12 months, parenting style and partner relatBaseline and outcome data were measured by validated questionnaires completed by the primary care giver.5 11 The baseline questionnaires at age 7 months measured sociodemographic details, infant difficult temperament, maternal mental health and family stress and, at 12 months, parenting style and partner relatbaseline questionnaires at age 7 months measured sociodemographic details, infant difficult temperament, maternal mental health and family stress and, at 12 months, parenting style and partner relationship.

Outcomes were measured at 3, 9, and 15 months from baseline.

The three treatment conditions were comparable on all child and parent demographic and outcome variables collected at baseline.

The quality of each study was evaluated independently by MS and SJM according to the following eight validity criteria, which were adapted from the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) guidelines [14,15] and Delphi criteria list [16]: randomization; allocation concealment; blinding of outcome assessments; comparability of groups at baseline; withdrawals; handling of dropouts in analyses; use of intention - to - treat analysis; and multiple follow - up assessments.

Clinician or patient reported cognitive outcomes include: • Measures of self - efficacy, barriers, goals, outcome expectation and physical activity at baseline and follow up.

QALYs were estimated using the EQ - 5D - 5L (5 - level version of EuroQol - 5 dimension) instrument.27 This was scored using a published scoring algorithm.28 Both outcome measures were administered at baseline, postintervention (approximately 6 weeks after commencement of exercise) and at the 6 - month follow - up.

However, large - scale longitudinal studies, which assess outcomes as well as EE and patient functioning at baseline, are needed to determine the validity of traditional criteria for high EE developed from familial research vs the absence of a positive relationship.

All outcome measures will be administered at each assessment: at baseline, post-intervention and 6 - months follow - up (see Table 1).

A poorer outcome was associated with: externalizing as opposed to emotional symptoms, reading difficulties; living in a single - parent or reconstituted family at baseline; and after exposure between Time 1 and Time 2 to parental separation, parental mental illness, child illness, and loss of a close friendship.