Sentences with phrase «range of outcome measures»

There is evidence that the CfC intervention has had a positive effect on a range of outcome measures (four of 19 outcomes), specifically increasing children's receptive vocabulary and verbal ability, reducing the number of jobless households and improving parenting practices (reduction in harsh or hostile parenting and greater parenting self - efficacy).

These 2 trials are impressive for their methodological rigour, including the use of a randomised controlled design, low attrition, length of follow up, and range of outcome measures.

The larger scale of these studies reduces error, and their frequent use of a wider range of outcome measures allows more understanding of the range of effects of particular strategies or interventions.

Not exact matches

Moderate interest rates were associated with a whole range of subsequent returns over the following decade, and we know that those outcomes were 90 % correlated with the level of valuations at the beginning of those periods (on reliable measures such as market cap / GDP, price / revenue, Tobin's Q, the margin - adjusted Shiller P / E, and others we've presented over time - see Ockham's Razor and the Market Cycle).

Because none demonstrated a clinically significant or relevant improvement in safety, range of motion including extension, or other outcome measures, and given the expense, postoperative bracing was not included as part of the original or revised MOON protocol.

The articles and studies linked to this page offer an opportunity to explore a range of objective and empirical measures of the outcomes of a Waldorf education.

Over the period from 8 to 18 years, sample members were assessed on a range of measures of cognitive and academic outcomes including measures of child intelligence quotient; teacher ratings of school performance; standardized tests of reading comprehension, mathematics, and scholastic ability; pass rates in school leaving examinations; and leaving school without qualifications.

Our review was restricted to a limited number of behavioural outcomes and we were unable to exploit the full range of behavioural outcome measures used across included studies and for some studies reporting of multiple measures of child behaviour in the meta - analysis.

These effects are 1) pervasive, being reflected in a range of measures including standardized tests, teacher ratings, and academic outcomes in high school; and 2) relatively long - lived, extending throughout childhood into young adulthood.»

Pickles has referred to unauthorised Traveller sites as a «blight», despite chairing a 2012 ministerial working group report which found travellers often suffered poor outcomes across a range of societal measures.

Dr Jones, said: «This new meta - analysis shows that baclofen is no more effective than placebo on a range of key outcome measures, suggesting that the current increasing use of baclofen as a treatment for alcohol use disorders is premature.»

While some research was previously done by his and other groups on a smaller scale, «This is the first real description of a method that could be used broadly across a range of conditions to operationally measure diagnostic errors and associated bad outcomes so that we can track our performance and see whether our interventions are making a difference,» Newman - Toker says.

Medical / physical outcome measures, or biomarkers, include a wide range of tools, from blood - based analyses to neurophysiological and neuroimaging methods such as eye - tracking because eye gaze abnormalities are a common feature of FXS.

While the Affordable Care Act requires hospices to report quality measures across a range of processes and practices, this is the first study to examine the link between hospice preferred practices and outcomes for patients receiving hospice care.

Grants were awarded in 6 categories that cover a range of disciplines: Clinical trials and outcome measures, Biomarkers of progression, Gene studies, Underlying pathology, New disease models and Rehabilitation trials.

The five psoriasis cases, ranging from mild to severe at the study onset, improved on all measured outcomes over a six - month period when measured by the Psoriasis Area and Severity Index, the Psoriasis Severity Scale, and the lactulose / mannitol test of intestinal permeability.

The National Assessment of Educational Progress should be broadened to gauge how American youths are faring on a range of academic, social, health, and cultural indicators, contends a report that calls for new measures of educational outcomes and equity.

«Some chains continue to achieve impressive outcomes for their disadvantaged students against a range of measures, demonstrating the transformational impact on life chances that can be made.

The primary aims of this study are to document the process of moving towards new, integrated systems in each of these cities; to highlight which strategies moved the cities forward in creating these systems and what barriers the cities encountered; to examine how these cities incorporated the needs of students with disabilities, English language learners, and students from different economic backgrounds into their system designs; to understand how students, teachers, and parents, and others experience elements of the new system and how these experiences differed for students with special needs; and to document quantitative outcomes on a range of measures, disaggregated by student subgroup.

In addition, the new report includes a broader range of student outcomes, examining not only state test results in reading and math, but also test scores in science and social studies; results on a nationally normed assessment that includes measures of higher - order thinking; and behaviors reported by students and parents.

Additional Supports: The Lab has provided a range of additional supports tailored to the needs of each city that has included Reville and others» participation in key city events, helping cities identify and connect with program partners and potential funders, and assistance with data use and outcome measures.

As the focus on teacher evaluation rises to the state and federal levels, we will need to articulate the full range of teacher practices and student outcomes that we want from our education system — and determine how we can measure them.

Third, in one of the best and most well - respected studies we have on this to date, Papay (2010)[in his Different tests, different answers: The stability of teacher value - added estimates across outcome measures study] found that value - added estimates WIDELY range across different standardized tests given to the same students at the same time.

Standardized tests play a critical role in validating local assessments and giving a broad view of the limited range of student outcomes they intend to measure.

In situations where probabilities can not be defined, economic analysis can define scenarios that describe a possible set of outcomes for each adaptation measure which meet some criteria of minimum acceptable benefits across a range of scenarios, allowing the decision - maker to explore different levels of acceptable benefits in a systematic way.

In the experiment I describe, the beliefs I measure are about purely descriptive matters... The students are shown exact statements concerning the outcomes of the experiment, as predicted by competitive equilibrium, things like «the number of contracts will be predicted exactly [by the theory]» or «the combined earnings of the traders will be predicted exactly [by the theory] or «the average contract prices will fall within a 30 - cent range [predicted by the theory]... there is no implication here of safety or danger.

One of the goals of the Project is to see if the 7 - hour process is effective, and to measure the range outcomes that can be reached within the confined protocols and qualifications.

Home visiting is a holistic intervention from which a wide range of positive outcomes have been reported14; therefore, several measures of outcome were included.

The scale has adequate validity both as a screening tool for depression and as an outcome measure in clinical trials and has been applied successfully across a wide range of study fields.

The authors note the following regarding this article: Although a strikingly diverse range of outcomes have been measured within clinical supervision research, a dominant perspective is that clinical outcomes remain the «acid test» of its effectiveness (Ellis & Ladany, 1997).

Over a period of 23 years, the PROSPER Partnership Model evolved from a series of projects that served a wide range of groups and entailed evaluations measuring a number of outcomes.

The conduct of such a trial would be greatly facilitated by the development of outcome measures which captured the full range of the components of positive mental health.

EIP showed favorable impacts on 8 outcomes, including fewer days and episodes of hospitalization, relative to those in the comparison group, covering a range of 6 weeks to 2 years postpartum.13, 23,24 EIP also showed a favorable effect on the percentage of children who were adequately immunized by 1 year, but the difference was no longer statistically significant by 2 years.13, 24 Early Start demonstrated favorable effects on 3 outcomes, including percentage who received well - child visits and dental service.25 — 27 HFA had favorable results for 4 health care outcomes, such as the number of well - child visits and whether the child had health insurance.28 — 31 HFA had an unfavorable effect on the number of pediatric emergency department (ED) visits.32 The research showed that Healthy Steps had a beneficial effect on 2 outcomes: 1 - month well - child visits and diphtheria toxoid, tetanus toxoid, and pertussis vaccinations.33 Finally, NFP had favorable results on 3 outcomes measuring the number of ED visits at different follow - ups but an unfavorable / ambiguous effect on number of days hospitalized between 25 and 50 months.34, 35 The research on 2 programs (Oklahoma's CBFRS and PAT) showed no effects on measures of health care use or coverage.36 — 40 The research on 5 programs (Child FIRST, EHS, Family Check - Up, HIPPY, and PALS for Infants) did not report health care coverage or usage outcomes.

The main outcome was depression (denoting the entire range of depressive symptoms, including normal sadness in response to loss, as well as chronic depressed emotional affect and clinical depression meeting criteria for psychiatric disorder) measured by a separate scale or as part of a composite measure.

These children do well across a range of physical, psychological and educational outcomes and, interestingly, children raised by same - sex parents actually fared better on measures of general behaviour, general health and family cohesion.

The evaluation includes two interrelated substudies — one focusing on sites» experiences in implementing the SHM model and the other measuring program impacts on marital quality and stability, child well - being, and a range of other outcomes.

In this capacity, she worked extensively with the psychological tools and measures relevant to infant and child development and co-authored several papers on the long - range developmental outcomes of preterm and drug - exposed infants.

It is clear that most of the resilience measures that are significantly associated with avoiding negative outcomes do not sit entirely within the health domain and that effective action to promote resilience and address child health inequalities requires action at many different levels and from a wide range of agencies and bodies.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) The efficacy of Real Life Heroes (RLH) treatment was tested with 119 children in seven child and family service programs, ranging from home - based family counseling to residential treatment, and compared to children receiving trauma - informed «treatment as usual» (TI - TAU) provided by practitioners trained in RLH in the same programs during the same time period.

A unique aspect of our trial is the inclusion of a range of secondary outcome measures including those highly valued by patients themselves.

Thus, in the present study, we tried to replicate the ACE Study findings in a cohort of youth, using psychological distress as an outcome measure, and to explore whether the adversities enumerated by the ACE Study could be improved upon by considering a more comprehensive range of possible adversities, including some of the domains not considered in the ACE Study.

Our review was restricted to a limited number of behavioural outcomes and we were unable to exploit the full range of behavioural outcome measures used across included studies and for some studies reporting of multiple measures of child behaviour in the meta - analysis.

After adjusting for a broad range of confounder variables, the associations between parent - rated hyperactivity / inattention and conduct problems measured at age 3 and academic outcomes at age 16 (national General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) examination results) were investigated (n = 11640).

Good quality CCTs of programmes adopting a health promoting school approach to mental health promotion should be undertaken using a range of robust outcome measures, positive as well as negative, and measuring long - term impact

It measures a broad range of outcomes on 13 subscales (including emotional symptoms, behavioural problems, substance abuse, school attendance problems, and peer relationships).

Measuring risk and reward across apartment markets Understanding the range of probable outcomes is essential in managing investment risk and developing a strategy for capital deployment.