The American Heart Association considers
this the primary outcome measurement of arterial stiffness.
The choice of an Apgar score of zero and
the primary outcome measurement is particularly apt, since severe neurologic injury is particularly likely at homebirth, because homebirth midwives do not monitor the fetal heart rate appropriately.
Not exact matches
Given the
primary objectives of the trial and measures collected in existing RCTs, 18, 49 we chose to anchor our sample size calculation around detection of a minimum effect size of 0.3 for the responsivity subscale of the Home Observation
Measurement of the Environment (HOME) Inventory (see table 2), to allow comparisons with the original MECSH trial and other international SNHV programmes.60 The sample size applies across all of the subscales of the HOME Inventory and other continuous
outcomes as based on number of SDs rather than the actual
outcome distributions.
Measurements were two questions from the
Primary Care Evaluation of Mental Disorders patient questionnaire, both the long and short forms of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale, both the long and short forms of the Beck Depression Inventory, the Symptom - Driven Diagnostic System for
Primary Care, the Medical
Outcomes Study depression measure, and the Quick Diagnostic Interview Schedule.
Clinical
Outcomes in
Measurement based Treatment (COMET): a trial of depression monitoring and feedback to
primary care physicians
Primary outcome Feasibility measures: recruitment, programme implementation, fidelity measures, achieved
measurements and retention, participant satisfaction assessed by questionnaire and qualitative interviews.