This unique,
prospective study design allowed Peterson and his colleagues to follow babies from a critical point in fetal brain development in utero, through birth, and all the way into toddlerhood.
We eliminated each study, one at a time, then the 2 studies with total (any) breastfeeding39, 45 (rather than exclusive breastfeeding, because we assumed that to establish a milk supply, women who breastfed long - term also breastfeed exclusively in the first months) and the 2 studies with retrospective study designs22, 38 (rather than
prospective study designs).
Not exact matches
At The Fertility Center of Las Vegas, each clinical trial is
designed as a
prospective, randomized
study.
The strength of this
study is its
prospective population - based cohort
design with a large number of subjects and the possibility to adjust for all major confounders.
Design Economic evaluation with individual level data from the Birthplace national
prospective cohort
study.
A
prospective, controlled
study of the effect of breast milk on infection among low birth weight infants was conducted in India in 1981.18 Although the sample size was small, 62 infants, the
study design was a randomized block
design in which feeding schedules for breast milk or formula were randomly allocated within groups of infants that were determined to be relatively homogeneous with respect to factors predisposing to infection.
We hypothesized that: (a) detection of HR by auscultation or palpation will vary by more than 15 BPM from actual HR; and (b) the inability to accurately determine HR will be associated with errors in management of the neonate during simulated resuscitation.Using a
prospective, randomized, controlled
study design, 64 subjects participated in three simulated neonatal resuscitation scenarios.
We
studied participants in Project Viva, a
prospective, longitudinal cohort
study designed to examine prenatal factors in relation to pregnancy and child health.
Design, Setting, and Participants
Prospective observational
study of 102 infants followed up as part of a US pregnancy cohort
study.
Strengths of our
study include a
prospective design, detailed contemporaneous measurement of duration and exclusivity of breastfeeding, and measurement of numerous potential confounding variables, including the home environment and maternal IQ.
The strongest research methods for psychological
studies are: qualitative findings versus quantitative; experimental rather than descriptive or correlational; controlled - experiment, meta - analysis, and observation
designs over archival, case
study, computational modeling, content analysis, field experiment, interview, neuroimaging, quasi experiment, self - report inventory, random sample survey, or twin
study; and
prospective (where subjects are recruited prior to the proposed independent effects being administered) and longitudinal (where subjects are
studied at multiple time points) rather than retrospective or cross-section
study.
To address the causality question within ethical bounds, researchers
designed prospective studies involving children who had equivalent levels of aggression or antisocial behaviour at the beginning of the
study.
The
study was
prospective in
design.
The
prospective design of the IFPS II, the large sample size, as well as the extensive information on infant and maternal dietary practices make it useful for
studying exclusive breastfeeding practices and testing hypotheses in a
prospective manner [27].
The researchers
designed a
prospective cohort
study using more than 20 years of follow - up data from the Nurses» Health Study (all female registered nurses) and the Health Professionals Follow - up Study (all male health professionals) from June 1, 1980 to May 31, 2010 (Nurses» Health Study) and Jan. 1, 1986 to Dec. 31, 2010 (Health Professionals Follow - up St
study using more than 20 years of follow - up data from the Nurses» Health
Study (all female registered nurses) and the Health Professionals Follow - up Study (all male health professionals) from June 1, 1980 to May 31, 2010 (Nurses» Health Study) and Jan. 1, 1986 to Dec. 31, 2010 (Health Professionals Follow - up St
Study (all female registered nurses) and the Health Professionals Follow - up
Study (all male health professionals) from June 1, 1980 to May 31, 2010 (Nurses» Health Study) and Jan. 1, 1986 to Dec. 31, 2010 (Health Professionals Follow - up St
Study (all male health professionals) from June 1, 1980 to May 31, 2010 (Nurses» Health
Study) and Jan. 1, 1986 to Dec. 31, 2010 (Health Professionals Follow - up St
Study) and Jan. 1, 1986 to Dec. 31, 2010 (Health Professionals Follow - up
StudyStudy).
For participants in the
prospective studies, the research team investigated how each individual's genetic risk score and lifestyle factors related to the incidence of heart attack, the need for procedures
designed to open blocked coronary arteries, or sudden cardiac death.
«The
prospective design of the
study, in combination with the availability of interdisciplinary research data, should make it possible for us to identify risk factors for the development of late forms of AMD in our cohort.
What makes this
study unique is that it's the first to incorporate a «train for transfer» approach — essentially a training intervention
designed to have participants practice performing real - world
prospective memory tasks in simulated everyday settings and assess whether the cognitive gains transfer to successful performance at home.
Discrepancy may hinge on
prospective vs retrospective
study designs, with associated biases and injury type and severity.
The staining and counting was done blindly, and a
prospective power analysis calculated that our
study design had a power of 95.5 % to detect a 25 % change in SNpc TH - positive cells.
It is one of the more robust, well -
designed prospective epidemiological
studies generally available.»
There are other
study designs which are better for
studying the relationship, such as
prospective cohort
studies or metabolic ward
studies.
The strengths of the
study were the cohort
design, large sample size, and
prospective data collection as well as the combination of screening, referrals, and registry linkage for detection of ASD cases.
The
prospective design and high rate of follow - up in this
study minimizes the possibility of recall bias or bias due to loss of follow - up.
Design, Setting, and Participants National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES, 1988 - 1994 [III], 1999 - 2004, and 2005 - 2010 [n = 31147]-RRB- for the time trend analysis and NHANES III Linked Mortality cohort (1988 - 2006 [n = 11733]-RRB-, a
prospective cohort of a nationally representative sample of US adults for the association
study.
RESEARCH
DESIGN AND METHODS The
prospective European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)- InterAct case - cohort study consists of 12,403 incident type 2 diabetes cases and a stratified subcohort of 16,154 individuals from eight European countries, with an average follow - up time of
prospective European
Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)- InterAct case - cohort study consists of 12,403 incident type 2 diabetes cases and a stratified subcohort of 16,154 individuals from eight European countries, with an average follow - up time of
Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)- InterAct case - cohort
study consists of 12,403 incident type 2 diabetes cases and a stratified subcohort of 16,154 individuals from eight European countries, with an average follow - up time of 12.0 years.
Assessing vitamin K status in
prospective studies and well -
designed randomized... [Read more...]
The case - cohort
design combines the advantages of a
prospective cohort with the efficiency and power of a large case - control
study.
It is recommended that the article covers, at least, the followings aspects: defining the problem or topic being
studied, theoretical background,
design and methodology, results, discussion of results, conclusions, limitations of the
study and, when appropriate,
prospective.
This article describes the
study design and methodology of the Western Canada Study, with emphasis on herd - selection criteria and study implementation, the collection of herd - production data, and the challenges of tracking individual animals in a large prospective observational study - as the Western Canada Study is the largest on - farm study of its kind in North American cow - calf herds to
study design and methodology of the Western Canada
Study, with emphasis on herd - selection criteria and study implementation, the collection of herd - production data, and the challenges of tracking individual animals in a large prospective observational study - as the Western Canada Study is the largest on - farm study of its kind in North American cow - calf herds to
Study, with emphasis on herd - selection criteria and
study implementation, the collection of herd - production data, and the challenges of tracking individual animals in a large prospective observational study - as the Western Canada Study is the largest on - farm study of its kind in North American cow - calf herds to
study implementation, the collection of herd - production data, and the challenges of tracking individual animals in a large
prospective observational
study - as the Western Canada Study is the largest on - farm study of its kind in North American cow - calf herds to
study - as the Western Canada
Study is the largest on - farm study of its kind in North American cow - calf herds to
Study is the largest on - farm
study of its kind in North American cow - calf herds to
study of its kind in North American cow - calf herds to date.
Through our retrospective and
prospective prosthetic
studies, we are able to continue to improve our device
design while assisting orthopedic surgeons in the development of amputation techniques.
The relatively low prevalence of recorded diagnoses of BOAS and other respiratory problems in the current primary - care population using a retrospective observational
study design is in sharp contrast with the findings from some other
prospective clinical
studies.
The researchers recruited some 1,400 women into a
prospective, multi-center
study designed to assess what factors increase the risk of coronary artery disease.
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This
study benefitted from a longitudinal
design, with measures repeated at each time point so that we were able to examine cross-sectional data at both time points in additional to the
prospective analysis.
Design and participants Data were drawn from the UK Millennium Cohort
Study, a nationally representative
prospective cohort of babies born in 2000 — 2002.
The
study design was descriptive, using a
prospective longitudinal
design.
RESEARCH
DESIGN AND METHODS We conducted a
prospective longitudinal
study using MRI and spectroscopy to quantify whole - body and regional AT volumes, and IHCL content, within 2 weeks and 8 — 12 weeks after birth.
Design Eleven waves of data from the
prospective population - based Great Smoky Mountains
Study (N = 1420) were used.