Sentences with phrase «overall on their child outcomes»

For instance, over the last quarter century, Kids Count has ranked states overall on their child outcomes — with Iowa, New Hampshire and Vermont consistently ranking among the top ten, and usually top five, states in the country.

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This unsubstantiated finding is that «increased breastfeeding duration has had no effect on overall physical or pscychological health outcomes of either children or mothers.»

«As research into health outcomes in children with ADHD continues to provide new insights, focusing on the overall number of healthy lifestyle behaviors may become important.»

We found that on this delayed outcome, the treatment had a statistically significant impact on children's reading comprehension, improving performance by.04 SD (standard deviation) overall and.05 SD in high - poverty schools.

Schools Week analysed new government figures on the educational outcomes of children in care for at least 12 months and found that since 2011, the number of children in care in year 3 (age 7) has increased by 15 per cent and the number in care by year 6 (age 11) has increased by 26 per cent, with much of the change due to increased pupil numbers overall.

This review examines findings from research on four targets of early childhood professional development: 1) strengthening human and / or social capital; 2) strengthening practices at institutions or organizations providing professional development; 3) strengthening early educator practices related to specific child outcomes; and, 4) strengthening overall quality in classroom or group settings.

This index provides information on overall child well - being because it combines six outcomes into a single value by converting different units of measurement into a standard unit of measure.

Indeed, a longitudinal Swedish study reports that «high achievers» used television as a complement to school learning, whereas «low achievers» used television as a substitute for it.16 Similarly, a study of 326 young children found that parental education is negatively related to hours watched overall.13 Other studies have found effect modification of the effects of television viewing on educational outcomes by the SES of the parents.14, 21 As a result, television viewing in a general population may serve to exacerbate disparities in cognitive outcomes between high - SES and low - SES households.

Efficacy (as a continuous outcome), measured by the overall mean change scores on depressive symptom scales (self - rated or assessor - rated), for example, Children's Depression Rating Scale (CDRS - R) 32 and Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAMD) 33 from baseline to endpoint.

The effect of home visiting programs on mothers» life - course (subsequent pregnancies, education, employment, and use of welfare) is disappointing overall.10 In the trial of the nurse home visitor program described above, there were enduring effects of the program 15 years after birth of the first child on maternal life - course outcomes (e.g., interpregnancy intervals, use of welfare, behavioural problems due to women's use of drugs and alcohol, and arrests among women who were low - income and unmarried at registration).21 The effects of this program on maternal life - course have been replicated in separate trials with urban African - Americans20, 23,24 and with Hispanics.18

Overall, the effects of family type and, more specifically, the psychosocial risks indexed by family type on children's health outcomes seem to be generalized rather than specific; however, there was variation in the effects of family type and specific and more proximal risk factors.

The program of prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses, tested with a primarily white sample, produced a 48 percent treatment - control difference in the overall rates of substantiated rates of child abuse and neglect (irrespective of risk) and an 80 percent difference for families in which the mothers were low - income and unmarried at registration.21 Corresponding rates of child maltreatment were too low to serve as a viable outcome in a subsequent trial of the program in a large sample of urban African - Americans, 20 but program effects on children's health - care encounters for serious injuries and ingestions at child age 2 and reductions in childhood mortality from preventable causes at child age 9 were consistent with the prevention of abuse and neglect.20, 22

In an early impact study on the effectiveness of «skills - based relationship education programs designed to help low - income married couples strengthen their relationships and, in turn, to support more stable and more nurturing home environments and more positive outcomes for parents and their children,» MDRC reported [20] «Overall, the program has shown some small positive effects, without clear indications (yet no clear negative proof) for improving the odds to stay together after 12 months.»

Developmental outcomes of children in foster care Overall, the existing research suggests that children in foster care have more compromised developmental outcomes than children who do not experience placement in foster care.31 However, there is considerable variability in the functioning of foster children, and it is difficult to disentangle the multiple preplacement influences on foster children from those that result from the foster care experience itself.

Although overall summaries and meta - analyses suggest impacts on key outcomes for children and families, 3 — 6 the American Academy of Pediatrics statement on home visiting recognizes that the research remains mixed about the efficacy of home visiting, largely due to the widely varying programs and program goals.

These longitudinal studies have used interview and maternal report measures to track the course of maternal depression, observational measures of parenting and mother - child interaction to assess specific aspects of parenting and the mother - child relationship, and outcome measures focused on children's social - emotional and cognitive development, school readiness and overall adjustment.4

Overall, 32 programs had positive impacts on at least one child outcome, 23 had mixed reviews, and 11 were not proven to work.

A 2004 meta — analysis, or study of studies, of home visiting by Monica Sweet and Mark Applebaum was more positive about the outcomes of home visiting, reporting overall impacts on children's social and cognitive development and on parents» behaviors and attitudes.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) The present study examines the relationship among parent characteristics (hostility, depression, and overall parenting skills) and child bullying and the effects of the ACT Parents Raising Safe Kids (ACT - PRSK) program [now called the ACT Raising Safe Kids Program] on reducing early childhood bullying.