Sentences with phrase «racial and ethnic groups studied»

Black, non-Hispanic service members had a rate of 24.4 new diagnoses of hypertension per 1,000 person - years (p - yrs), nearly 50 percent higher than the rates among members of all the other racial and ethnic groups studied, according to the analysis published in the Medical Surveillance Monthly Report, a peer - reviewed journal on illnesses and injuries affecting service members.

Not exact matches

Another question raised was whether the study included adequate representation of racial and ethnic minority groups.

Study limitations include that these groups were mostly non-Hispanic white individuals and the results may not be generalizable to other racial / ethnic groups.

This study highlights the importance of designing post-operative care models to address the unique challenges different genders and ethnic / racial groups face following bariatric surgery.»

«Our studies highlight the need for college prevention and treatment programs to focus efforts on sexual, gender, racial and ethnic minority groups.»

«We believe we are the first to compare adolescent blood pressures to body mass index in these four major ethnic / racial groups,» said Joshua Samuels, M.D., M.P.H., the study's senior author, a professor in the Department of Pediatrics at McGovern Medical School and an attending pediatric nephrologist at Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital.

The material will enable researchers across the nation to do detailed genomic and other studies that can help parse more about how and why these cancers occur differently in various racial and ethnic groups.

The risk was higher among blacks than among people of other racial and ethnic groups, according to the study.

Controlling for this allowed us to study whether the narrowing of the gaps among racial and ethnic groups on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) was comparable to changes on the highly regarded NAEP exams.

The second cycle of the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS) has recorded an increase in student support of gender equality and equal opportunities for all ethnic and racial groups.

The second cycle of the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study has recorded an increase in student support of gender equality and equal opportunities for all ethnic and racial groups.

Requires the study of ethnic and racial groups to be included as part of each school corporation's high school United States history course.

«The study group working on improved teaching decides that identifying best practices for teaching students of diverse racial, ethnic, linguistic and cultural backgrounds should be its priority.

Although the percentage of white students in the country has declined dramatically over the past 50 years, while the percentage of black students has changed very little, the achievement levels of black students compared to white students (and other racial / ethnic groups) has barely narrowed, according to a study by University of Illinois economist Steven Rivkin.

Notably, several studies suggest that scales that appropriately measure feeding practices in this population do not capture the feeding processes of more diverse ethnic / racial or socioeconomic groups (Anderson et al., 2005), that these items may be misunderstood by more diverse samples (Jain, Sherman, Chamberlain, & Whitaker, 2004), and that ethnic / racial group may impact the frequency of use of some feeding practices (Faith et al., 2003; Hoerr, Utech, & Ruth, 2005).

A 2008 study of Oklahoma's universal preschool program conducted in Tulsa showed positive results for all racial and ethnic groups, but impacts were particularly strong for Hispanic children.

The study evaluated the effectiveness of Brief Strategic Family Therapy (BSFT) in reducing externalizing behaviors and drug use in adolescents and measured family functioning across racial / ethnic groups.

This study sought to examine the association between adolescents» relationship with family and school and depressive symptoms across ethnic / racial groups (White, Black, Hispanic, and Asian), and to test potentially unique explanatory power in youth — family relationship versus youth — school relationship, in a sample of 4,783 adolescents.

However, the findings of the study indicated that unique contributions by youth — family relationship and youth — school relationship were different by racial / ethnic groups.

Limitations include concerns about the generalizability of the study due to the limited racial / ethnic diversity and the lack of a no treatment or waitlist control group to further examine to decline in parental anxiety over time.

Relatedly studies are being carried out on the long term relation of stress hormones to SES, exposure to violence and other community factors and possible unique effects related to health disparities in ethnic and racial groups.

Studies of students in racial / ethnic minority groups suggest that parental expectations also appear to be related to academic self - efficacy among African American and Latino students.

Some parenting differences have been identified in specific racial / ethnic groups; for example, in a study of a large diverse population, Hispanic parents were significantly higher on adolescent reports of parental monitoring than White parents, and African American parents were lower than White parents on adolescent reports of warmth (Chao & Kanatsu, 2008).

aIndication of whether the study compares parental expectations across racial / ethnic groups or examines the relations between parental expectations and academic performance in two or more racial / ethnic groups