Sentences with phrase «randomized studies examining»

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In addition, a number of randomized controlled studies in different countries are underway, examining the effects of the NBO on a range of outcomes.

Our use of observational data reflects the existing literature on lactation and maternal health; apart from a single randomized trial examining the effect of exclusive lactation duration on maternal weight loss, 48 there are no published studies of maternal health outcomes in randomized trials of breastfeeding.

In this study, we empirically examined the impacts of a cluster - randomized intervention to promote breastfeeding in the Republic of Belarus.

Our study illustrates that a randomized intervention trial with good socioeconomic information can help assess interventions designed to improve population health not only by examining the intervention effects on primary outcomes but also by evaluating the intervention's impact on socioeconomic inequalities.

Examining more than 100 peer - reviewed studies of predator control, the study found not a single lethal control study that met scientists» gold standard: a randomized, controlled design.

The researchers worked with a Rochester - based company with sites throughout the Northeastern U.S. Ten different sites were randomized into two groups and the study examined a total of 3,799 individuals.

Hypertension is the most important treatable risk factor for cardiovascular disease, and while it is especially common in the elderly and in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), these are the least studied groups in randomized controlled trials examining the health effects of lowering blood pressure.

The researchers used the gold standard data from the Head Start Impact Study (HSIS), a randomized trial, to examine the effect of Head Start on parent outcomes rather than on child outcomes.

The study was the first randomized - controlled trial to examine the potential benefits of the low fat diet on the management of MS.. The study found no significant differences between the two groups in brain lesions detected on MRI brain scans or on other measures of MS.. But while the number of trial participants was relatively small, study leaders believe the significantly improved fatigue symptoms merited further and larger studies of the diet.

A 2000 study by Hannah et al. was the largest, randomized controlled trial to examine the type of deliver on mother and infant outcomes.

In a randomized, double - blind, sham - controlled, multi-center study with a parallel design, Shirota et al (2013) examined the effectiveness and stimulation frequency dependence of rTMS over the supplementary motor area (SMA) in PD.

In a randomized, double - blind, sham - controlled study, Benninger and colleagues (2011) examined the safety and effectiveness of intermittent theta - burst stimulation (iTBS) in the treatment of motor symptoms in Parkinson disease (PD); iTBS of the motor and DLPFC was investigated in 8 sessions over 2 weeks.

REVEAL - SCAN: Risk Evaluation and and Education of Alzheimer's Disease - the Study of Communicating Amyloid Neuroimaging (RF1 AG047866) is the first multi-site, randomized clinical trial to examine the impact of learning amyloid imaging results in cognitively normal individuals, and its goal is to answer these questions.

This was a randomized, controlled crossover study that examined how energy drinks affect heart function.

Bottom Line: This small, randomized, controlled crossover study examined the effects of an energy drink on blood pressure, heart rate, blood sugar and norepinephrine.

On the point of observational compared with randomized trials, all of the previously mentioned interventional human studies of fasting (20 — 23, 25 — 36, 39 — 42) and most animal models of fasting have examined surrogate outcomes of cardiovascular, metabolic, and cognitive risk.

To examine variation in fecal variables, especially butyrate, among individuals and the response to these fibers, a randomized cross-over study was conducted that compared the effects of foods supplying 25 g of NSP or 25 g of NSP plus 22 g of RS / d over 4 wk in 46 healthy adults (16 males, 30 females; age 31 — 66 y).

Randomized clinical trials and epidemiologic studies have shown that individuals who consume higher amounts of added sugar, especially sugar - sweetened beverages, tend to gain more weight7 and have a higher risk of obesity,2,8 - 13 type 2 diabetes mellitus,8,14 - 17 dyslipidemias, 18,19 hypertension, 20,21 and cardiovascular disease (CVD).14, 22 Most previous studies have focused on sugar - sweetened beverages but not total added sugar, and none of these studies has used nationally representative samples to examine the relationship between added sugar intake and CVD mortality.

Randomized field trials were used to examine the impact of the Teacher Study Group (TSG), a professional development model, on first grade teachers» reading comprehension and vocabulary instruction, their knowledge of these areas, and on the comprehension and vocabulary achievement of their students.

And its results align almost perfectly with those of the Head Start Impact Study, the only other large randomized trial that examines the longitudinal effects of having attended a public pre-k program.

Even more powerful than the research methods that produced this report, she says, are randomized studies: true apples - to - apples comparisons, like one she and a colleague did with Chicago schools, that examine charter school students and those who would have liked to attend a charter school but are in a traditional school.

«This study drew on teacher survey responses from randomized experiments exploring three different pay - for - performance programs to examine the extent to which these programs motivated teachers to improve student achievement and the impact of such programs on teachers» instruction, number of hours worked, job stress, and collegiality.

This study examined the effects of a comprehensive elementary school - wide social - emotional and character education program, Positive Action, on teacher, parent, and student perceptions of school safety and quality utilizing a matched - pair, cluster - randomized, controlled design.

Lemons, Fuchs, Gilbert, and Fuchs (2014) examined five randomized studies of a supplemental peer - mediated kindergarten reading program involving more than 2,500 students across nine years.

The Canines and Childhood Cancer (CCC): Examining the Effects of Therapy Dogs with Childhood Cancer Patients and their Families study is a multi-year, randomized controlled trial taking place in children's hospital settings across the U.S..

In a randomized, placebo - controlled study, the researchers examined if 16 weeks of taking 600 mg of algae supplement would improve the sleep of 362 children.

The study, published in the journal Injury Prevention, found its results by using randomized trial design to examine the impact of vacant lot greening.

This randomized controlled study examines whether Family Foundations (FF)-- a transition to parenthood program for couples focused on promoting coparenting quality, with previously documented impact on maternal stress, depression, and anxiety — can buffer the negative effects of maternal mental health problems.

In the current study, we examine HPA activity within the context of a randomized intervention experiment aimed at preventing conduct problems in preschoolers at high risk for antisocial behavior.

Prior to joining JBA, Tess worked at the University of Washington, where she was the research coordinator for a randomized trial of an emerging home visiting model and for two national studies examining behavioral health and related risk and protective factors among tribal college and university students.

The present study sought to build on previous programme evaluations by using a clustered randomized controlled trial to examine the immediate and long term impact of the programme on children in disadvantaged schools.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This study examined mediators and moderators of change in conduct problems, in a multi-agency randomized trial of The Incredible Years parenting program.

The current study used administrative data from state child welfare agencies to examine the impact of Early Head Start (EHS) on documented abuse and neglect among children from seven of the original seventeen programs in the national EHS randomized controlled trial.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) The study examined the efficacy, speed, and incidence of symptom worsening for subjects randomized to 3 treatments of PTSD: Prolonged Exposure, relaxation training, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).

Dr. Clark has been Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator on numerous NIH funded studies including a randomized clinical trial examining the efficacy of a mother - infant relational approach for women experiencing major depression in the postpartum period and another investigating the validity of screening and assessment measures of social - emotional functioning in infants and young children.

We also examined the effect of study design characteristics such as sample characteristics (i.e., sample size, age of parents, percentage of cultural minorities), design of the study (randomized controlled trial versus quasi-experimental), and outcome characteristics (follow - up duration, type of outcome measure).

The most stringent test of differential susceptibility theory is provided by randomized control trials examining the moderating role of genetic markers of differential susceptibility in experimental manipulations of the environment (Gene × Experimental Environment interactions), being at least 10 times more powerful than correlational Gene × Environment interaction studies.

The present study examined a set of five EF measures in the context of a randomized - controlled trial of a research - based intervention integrated into Head Start programs (Head Start REDI).

Overall, the present study had three main goals: (i) to compare the social skills of children randomized to foster care intervention and children randomized to continued institutional care with those of children from the community; (ii) to determine whether the timing of the foster care intervention influenced social skills; and (iii) to examine the influence of early attachment experiences and the moderating influence of EEG alpha power at 8 y on social skills in middle childhood for children who had experienced any early institutionalization (the FCG and the CAUG).