Sentences with phrase «pilot study investigated»

The current pilot study investigated an implementation of PCIT with primarily low - socioeconomic status, urban, ethnic minority youth and families.

He is also principal investigator of a pilot study investigating neuroimaging and gene expression in patients with catatonia.

A pilot study investigating dietary factors with possible associations with canine degenerative mitral valve disease.

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To look into this safety question, the Gluten Intolerance Group (GIG) recently conducted a pilot study at the University of Chicago's Celiac Research Center to investigate whether these beer options are truly free of detectable gluten, making them a product that consumers can confidently select.

She was the Site Principal Investigator for an NINR - funded study investigating mechanisms of preterm labor and birth in women of African - descent, and is currently conducting a pilot project examining modifiable factors related to risk for preterm labor and birth.

The pilot study is part of a larger study investigating the possibilities of combining activation of HIV and a vaccine to strengthen the ability of the immune system to fight HIV.

In a pilot study conducted by scientists at the Ruhr - University Bochum, high frequency repetitive stimulation was investigated as a therapeutic approach for these patients.

In addition, a small pilot study of 20 sibling pairs with extremely dissimilar problem behavior will investigate whether environments alter gene expression.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & UccePilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccepilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

The Human Animal Bond Research Initiative (HABRI) Foundation today announced it has awarded a $ 6,000 grant to The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Nursing for a pilot research study, Biobehavioral Effects of Therapy Dog Visitation in Elderly Intensive Care Unit Patients, to investigate how brief visits from therapy dogs can reduce stress in older intensive care unit (ICU) patients.

Dr. O'Haire says the valuable data from the pilot study helped secure the NIH R21 grant to conduct the large - scale, clinical trial to further investigate the efficacy and role of service dogs for military veterans with PTSD and their spouses.

We then describe our pilot studies that investigate the dissemination and use of our preventive intervention with couples who marry within religious organizations and with expectant couples where the mother is at high risk for maternal depression.

This article draws on a research project which employed a sequential mixed - method approach with a sample of fifteen year olds (n = 95) as a pilot study to guide the development of a large scale qualitative study investigating youth substance use patterns, processes, settings and drug transitions within the south east region of Ireland (Van Hout 2009a - d; 2010).

Thus we conducted a pilot study to investigate whether a complex automatized program is feasible and potentially helpful in BPD.

The design and small power of this pilot study prohibits further analysis of mediation of change mechanisms, but one direction of research would be to investigate whether reduction of parental stress is the mechanism through which parental reactivity towards the child is reduced.

However, this was just a small - scale pilot study and certainly justifies further research to investigate the potential of the program.

The primary outcome measure will be scores on the self - report version of the SDQ, a measure of psychopathology in young people with excellent psychometric properties25 and test — retest reliability.26 One previous pilot study has investigated the effect of cognitive training on psychopathology in at - risk young people using the SDQ.19 According to this study, there was a between - group effect size of 0.36 for the SDQ.

The present study reports the findings of a pilot study designed to investigate whether or not the likelihood of increasing the size of a bet was related to the level of prize offered and personal debt.

In line with this lack of literature, the present paper reports on a pilot study aimed at investigating longitudinally the quality of mother — child interactions, with specific reference to emotional availability (EA), in a group of mother — child pairs involved in infant massage classes.

Therefore, we conducted this pilot - study investigating the effectiveness of mindfulness training for children with ADHD and their parents.

In the current pilot study (N = 45 youth), we investigate whether psychobiological divergence of neuroendocrine and self - reported reactivity in middle childhood prospectively predicts health risk behaviors (HRBs) in adolescence.