Sentences with phrase «primary studies involving»

A meta - analysis of 85 independent effect sizes extracted from 46 primary studies involving a total of 36,793 learners indicated statistically significant positive effects of CT on mathematics achievement.

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Some of the marketing material highlighted in Lion's cross claim includes: «A2 will improve human health through the consumption of a2 dairy milk products», «studies suggest that milk containing only the A2 type of protein may benefit you and your family if you're concerned with certain allergies, immune function or digestive wellbeing» and «there is significant evidence to suggest that beta casein A1 may be a primary risk factor for heart disease in adult men and also be involved in the progression of insulin dependent diabetes in children... Beta casein A1... is the most powerful risk factor ever discovered.»

Primary prevention interventions with fathers of young children whose partners are involved in home visitation services (i.e., programs that teach parenting skills and provide support to fathers in their own homes) have become increasingly popular in the U. S. 13 To date, only descriptive studies have been conducted of these programs.

Methodology: The two - and - a-half-year study involved collecting data over a period of 18 months from nine state primary and secondary schools situated in London and a rural area of England.

The study involved 871 patients from 72 primary care practices in England who were randomly assigned to 1 of 4 advice strategies: usual care, daily nasal and saline irrigation supported by a demonstration video, daily steam inhalation, or combined treatment with both interventions.

The large multicentre UK - based community screening study was a collaboration primarily between UEA and the University of Sheffield, and involved researchers at the Universities of Southampton, Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester and York, and over 100 primary care practices.

«A primary goal of our Center is to undertake fundamental studies about reactions involving carbon materials.

We also performed subgroup meta - analyses by type of prevention (primary v secondary: in this study, trials involving healthy populations or patients with any specific disease except for cardiovascular disease were classified as primary prevention trials, and trials involving patients with cardiovascular disease were classified as secondary prevention trials), type of supplement by quality and dose (each supplement, vitamins only, antioxidants only, or antioxidants excluding vitamins), type of outcome (cardiovascular death, angina, fatal or non-fatal myocardial infarction, stroke, or transient ischaemic attack), type of outcome in each supplement, type of study design (randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trial v open label, randomised controlled trial), methodological quality (high v low), duration of treatment (< 5 years v ≥ 5 years), funding source (pharmaceutical industry v independent organisation), provider of supplements (pharmaceutical industry v not pharmaceutical industry), type of control (placebo v no placebo), number of participants (≥ 10000 v < 10000), and supplements given singly or in combination with other vitamin or antioxidant supplements by quality.

Three primary methods of biotin analysis involve (1) bacterial growth studies, (2) studies in which biotin binds to a protein called avidin (or sometimes streptavidin), and (3) dye - based studies using a chemical called 4» - hydroxyazobenzene -2-carboxylic acid.

It was while completing her primary studies stateside that Saldana became involved with the Faces theater troupe, whose aim was to make a positive impact on teenage audiences by performing improvisational skits on such issues as substance abuse and sexuality.

Currently employed as a Subject Leader for ICT at a high performing secondary school in Yorkshire, England this management role involves him in not only leading a department, managing the staff, teaching 11 to 18 year old students in the study of ICT and Computing but also responsibilities whole school and to feeder primary schools.

The small - scale study involved 25 government schools in six states or territories — 16 primary schools, five secondary schools and four combined.

He cites a study (Huber, Sloof & van Praag, 2012) into the effect of primary school entrepreneurship programs on the skills and attitudes of students involved.

This study takes advantage of a class - size - reduction program and evaluation that involved primary schools in Bungoma and Butere - Mumias in Western Province, Kenya.

Their literature review looked at studies from around the world exploring evidence of the effectiveness of PBL — including the use of concept maps in Hungarian Kindergartens, a primary school PBL program for low SES students in the United States and a STEM - based project involving female high school students in Taiwan.

Leaks are one of the primary concerns surrounding geologic carbon sequestration, and researchers around the country are assessing the risks involved, which includes studying the types of conditions that could cause carbon dioxide to escape.

My limited personal professional experience (apart from the preparation of review articles,»cause I'm first and foremost a primary care grunt, and we don't get much involved in cutting - edge research) is in the publication of the results of therapeutic clinical trials, and I've never been responsible for the statistical calculations involved in those studies.

Future research could involve secondary analyses of Australian national datasets and prospective longitudinal studies, primary cohort studies, and well controlled intervention studies.

The primary outcome variables for this analysis were the number of substantiated reports over the entire 15 - year period involving the study child regardless of the identity of the perpetrator or involving the mother as perpetrator regardless of the identity of the child.

Primary prevention interventions with fathers of young children whose partners are involved in home visitation services (i.e., programs that teach parenting skills and provide support to fathers in their own homes) have become increasingly popular in the U. S. 13 To date, only descriptive studies have been conducted of these programs.

The research in these states is varied, involves mixed methods, a range of study designs, and both primary data collection and use of administrative data.

More recently, we (Lavigne et al., 2007) conducted a study comparing a minimal intervention involving bibliotherapy and no therapist contact with a moderately intensive, 12 - session parent training program (Webster - Stratton, 1997) using two models for linking primary care to mental health services: an «office» model in which services were provided by primary care nurses, and a «referral» model, in which pediatric psychologists provided treatment.

These changes, designed to make the interventions more suitable for the primary care setting and clientele, did not seem to be significant changes from prior research since the «dose» findings in this study are similar to the «completer» findings of prior research, and because prior studies of less intensive interventions involving therapist contact also show similar effects for less intensive treatments.

This study examined the effectiveness of a moderately intensive, 12 - session parent training program for ODD in young children suitable for implementation in primary care following two models for delivering mental health interventions within a primary health care setting (Morlock, 1989): (a) an office staff model with the provision of all services by individuals in the primary care setting, i.e., nurses; and (b) a mental health intervention model involving treatment within the practice by a mental health professional.

The current study involved evaluating two versions of the AOP, each containing two 10 - week school - based components — Social Life Skills (SLS; Roberts C. et al., 2003) and Optimistic Thinking Skills (OTS; Roberts R. et al., 2003) implemented in Grades 6 and 7, respectively, plus a self - directed program for parents and families (PF; Drake - Brockman and Roberts, 2001) to be implemented in the second half of the last year of primary school.

Primary studies covered wide range of outcomes involving mental health and emotional wellbeing