Sentences with phrase «randomly assigned groups»

Analyses among groups at the transition period are of primary importance because this provided a comparison of the learning of randomly assigned groups of at - risk students with and without intervention services and a comparison to the progress of average students from the same classrooms.

We randomly assigned groups of students to receive free tickets to see a play or to remain in their school to serve as the control.

Psychologist Jordi Quoidbach of the University of Liège in Belgium and his colleagues divided 374 adults, ranging from custodians to senior administrators, into two randomly assigned groups.

Each volunteer was randomly assigned a group — one group ingested a 1,000 mg yerba mate capsule, whilst the other ingested a placebo.

Not exact matches

For instance, one study randomly assigned participants to one of two groups: One group's members spent time on their social media pages, and the other group simply surfed the Internet.

For this new working paper, which was recently highlighted on the Association for Psychological Science blog, researchers out of Columbia University rounded up 154 British commuters and then randomly assigned them to two groups.

One study randomly assigned participants to one of two groups: half spent time on their MySpace page (really takes you back, doesn't it?)

As a point of comparison, the researchers also included a group of participants who had posters randomly assigned to them.

Subjects were randomly assigned to three groups: those prayed for by nondirected agents, a control group, and those prayed for by directed agents.

INTERVENTION: Agents were randomly assigned to either a directed or nondirected prayer group; photos and names of subjects were used as a focus.

At the Department of Food and Nutrition at Hanyang University in Seoul, Korean researchers randomly assigned forty overweight adult women to two groups.

Design: In this parallel - group randomized controlled trial, we enrolled household shoppers across New Zealand who owned smartphones and were aged ≥ 18 y. Eligible participants were randomly assigned (1:1:1) to receive either traffic light labels (TLLs), Health Star Rating labels (HSRs), or a control [nutrition information panel (NIP)-RSB-.

The rats were randomly assigned into the control group with normal feed and saline only, and three groups with virgin coconut oil (VCO) of varying amounts added to normal feed.

Study participants were randomly assigned to one of two groups: those who were allowed to drink diet beverages, such as diet soft drinks, teas and flavoured waters, or those who were in a control group that drank water only.

Establishing a definitive cause and effect relationship between birth practices and labour medications are difficult as most women are not going to want to take part in a research project that will randomly assign them to a medicated or unmedicated group!

There is experimental evidence that this old standby really helps: In a study that randomly assigned fearful children to receive a toy «huggy puppy,» kids exhibited fewer nighttime fears and sleep problems than did children in a control group.

When researchers randomly assigned some primary school students to perform three acts of kindness each week, those kids became more popular than did children in a control group (Layous et al 2012).

Women randomly assigned to the advised - coitus group were encouraged to have sex to promote the onset of labor.

Researchers recruited women during their first trimester... and randomly assigned them to an active group... or a sedentary one.

Studying breastfeeding behaviours or outcomes is difficult since it is not possible to randomly assign mothers and infants to treatment groups or to control the duration of the process.

Women were randomly assigned by a telephone - based computer randomisation service provided by ANHMRC clinical trials randomisation centre to each group.

In their study, predominantly black (78 %) and Hispanic (13 %) women from New Haven, Connecticut, and Atlanta, Georgia, were randomly assigned to receive all their prenatal care either in a group setting (20 h of contact time) or during individual appointments (2 h of contact time).

In the study, 291 mother - newborn pairs were assigned randomly to one of two groups.

Two randomly assigned study groups of expectant mothers were formed over a 7 - month period (12/94 — 6/95) from three independent, obstetric practices in six clinical offices in and around the Greater Rochester, NY, area.

Most research concerned with the psychosocial effects of breastfeeding is based on observational studies due to the ethical challenges of randomly assigning mothers to either breastfeeding or formula feeding groups.

Each week, a study hospital was randomly assigned each study hospital to 1 of the 3 treatment groups.

Each week, the study co-ordinator used SPSS software (SPSSInc, Chicago, IL) to randomly assign 50 % of newly recruited participants to the intervention group, thus preserving allocation concealment (not sure how they did this using SPSS).

To find out whether a 90 - minute educational workshop could be an effective way to train coaches in how to prevent injuries, the researchers randomly assigned 12 youth soccer teams to one of two groups.

Each week, the study co-ordinator used SPSS software (SPSS Inc, Chicago, IL) to randomly assign 50 % of newly recruited participants to the intervention group, thus preserving allocation concealment.

Sample was stratified «for age and parity, and finally randomly assigned to either the intervention or control group».

Quote: «The expectant mothers and fathers who were assigned randomly to the 2 study groups were demographically similar.»

To investigate, Élise Labonté - LeMoyne at the University of Montreal in Canada and her colleagues randomly assigned 29 pregnant women to one of two groups.

One of the best ways scientists have to prove cause and effect in medicine is to conduct a randomized controlled trial, in which study subjects are randomly assigned to two groups.

The researchers randomly assigned students from a separate group to watch either the white - or black - biased videos and instructed them to look for a hidden pattern.

Eighty - seven 60 to 68 years old eligible postmenopausal women with knee pain and confirmed radiographic osteoarthritis related changes in the knee joint were enrolled into the study and randomly assigned into either a training group or a control group.

In the study, 60 adults were randomly assigned to three different groups.

Another problem is that modeling studies, like this one, are inherently less powerful than other kinds of medical research: randomized clinical trials, the gold standard in medical research, in which patients are randomly assigned different treatments or no treatment; case - control studies, which compare patients who have a condition with those who do not; or cohort studies, which determine the risk of contracting a disease by studying a group of people with similar demographics.

This sets up a quasi-experimental research design wherein a fire happens randomly and by chance and randomly and naturally assigns treatment and control groups, because only a certain segment of the population will be exposed to the smoke.»

The nursing homes in the study were randomly assigned to one of two groups as a care standard for influenza prevention, with either the regular dose of the influenza vaccine or the high dose vaccine as the care standard for their residents age 65 and older.

In this study, a group of prominent alcoholism researchers randomly assigned more than 900 problem drinkers to receive one of three treatments over 12 weeks.

The 814 girls in the study were randomly assigned to one of two groups.

Patients with IBS, based on Rome III criteria, were assigned randomly to groups given pinaverium or placebo at four hospitals in China, from August 2012 through December 2013.

Øyvind Holme, M.D., of the Sorlandet Hospital Kristiansand, Kristiansand, Norway and colleagues randomly assigned study participants in Norway to receive once - only flexible sigmoidoscopy (n = 10, 283); a combination of once - only flexible sigmoidoscopy and fecal occult blood testing (FOBT; n = 10,289), or no intervention (control group; n = 78,220).

Richard J. McManus, F.R.C.G.P., of the University of Oxford, and colleagues randomly assigned 552 patients with hypertension and a history of stroke, coronary heart disease, diabetes, or chronic kidney disease to self - monitoring of blood pressure combined with an individualized self - titration algorithm or a control group (patients received usual care consisting of seeing their health care clinician for routine blood pressure measurement and adjustment of medication if necessary).

The participants were randomly assigned to one of three groups: a weight - loss - only group, who followed a calorie - restricted diet with no exercise regimen; a weight loss plus cardio (i.e., walking) group; and a weight loss plus weight - training group.

All participants were randomly assigned to groups for the first administration of either Ocytocin or placebo (a substance having no pharmacological affect).

The study involved 49 participants in all, randomly assigned into four experimental groups that would elucidate the impact of different levels of conscious awareness during the experiment.

Study participants were randomly assigned to one of three treatment groups for six months: (1) oral estradiol and progesterone at a dose similar to that in many birth control pills (16 participants); (2) transdermal estradiol, better known as the estrogen patch, at a physiological replacement dose with cyclic progesterone (13 athletes); or (3) no estrogen (19 subjects).

Across two different cohorts of students in a college statistics class, the researchers randomly assigned half the student participants to receive the intervention prompt; the other half received no prompt, serving as the comparison group.

Of these, half were randomly assigned to the intervention group, to receive tailored and intensive physical therapy.