Researchers studying outcomes of therapy are beginning to focus attention on this approach as a family therapy.
Not exact matches
Using longitudinal data from the nine - decade - long Terman life - cycle
study, which has followed the lives and career
outcomes of a group of gifted children since 1922,
researchers Timothy A. Judge of Notre Dame and John D. Kammeyer - Mueller of the University of Florida analyzed the characteristics of the most ambitious among them.
Researchers have conducted many
studies over the years and repeatedly have found a strong correlation between smiling and positive business
outcomes.
In the
study that established the difference,
researchers looking at people two years after they first showed up at a hospital for care found that they scored significantly better on most
outcome measures than a comparable group in the West....
The natural world is difficult to
study, the article points out, and
researchers feel «the pressure to cut corners, to see what one wants and believes to be true, to extract a positive
outcome from months or years of hard work.»
A
study carried out by
researchers at Jordan University was published in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology investigated the effect of eating dates on labour and delivery
outcomes.
The other thing the
researchers said in their introduction that was conveniently not mentioned by Hanna Rosin in her article is that «should breastfeeding be shown to have a negative impact on work
outcomes, our
study will provide evidence that breastfeeding promotion needs to be coupled with protections for women's work and earnings».
The
researchers also found that many of the
studies showed that children who had restrictive parents were less likely to get involved in negative behaviors such as cyberbullying, drug use, vandalism, and theft, and were less likely to have poor body image — factors the
study authors called «negative consumer socialization
outcomes.»
Researchers reported high overall perinatal mortality in a
study of home birth in Australia, 35 qualifying that low risk home births in Australia had good
outcomes but that high risk births gave rise to a high rate of avoidable death at home.36 Two prospective
studies in North America found positive
outcomes for home birth, 23 24 but the
studies were not of sufficient size to provide relatively stable perinatal death rates.
In a recent analysis of 428 published
studies,
researchers compared child
outcomes throughout the world.
In a case - control
study,
researchers identify a group of cases (here, the babies who died of SIDS) and compare them to a control group of babies / families with similar characteristics to find out what could account for differences in
outcomes (one group died from SIDS; one did not).
The psychosocial
outcome receiving the most attention from
researchers is problem behaviour, with most
studies finding perceived negative reactivity in infancy to predict problem behaviour in childhood33, 34 and adolescent.35 Specifically, infants prone to high levels of fear, frustration, and sadness, as well as difficulty recovering from such distress, were found to be at increased risk for internalizing and externalizing problem behaviours according to parental and / or teacher report.
In the first
study ever to combine maternal and pediatric health
outcomes from breastfeeding in a single model, Harvard
researcher Dr. Melissa Bartick and colleagues published a new
study showing that most of the impact from optimal breastfeeding the US in on maternal health.
Researchers can access the de-identified datasets to
study the process and
outcomes of midwifery care, physiologic birth, and place of delivery.
«While the maternal depression and child
outcome literature is well established, there are fewer
studies on paternal depression,» the
researchers write.
Using data from the Danish National Birth Cohort in Denmark,
researchers in the University of Adelaide's Robinson Research Institute
studied the
outcomes of 368 women who were on antidepressants prior to becoming pregnant.
In one key
study,
researchers at Stanford University and the University of Texas at Austin found that a simple, one - sentence note of encouragement made a huge difference in academic
outcomes for African - American students, who often have fraught power relationships with teachers.
Researchers supporting co-parenting identified a number of fundamental methodological flaws of recent
studies that challenge co-parenting of infants and young children: the failure to interview both parents, small and non-representative samples and use of unreliable and invalid measures, and the fact that even these
studies have actually found no significant differences in child
outcomes in single versus co-parenting families.
In fact, the
researchers considered unusually frequent feeding with low stool output a red flag to check baby's weight, as the
study baby who breastfed the most times per day had the poorest weight
outcomes.
Attachment Parenting International (API) analyzes and disseminates the work of
researchers in psychology, child development, and brain science who have
studied and applied the behaviors and
outcomes of attachment theory for more than 60 years.
Dr. Harvey, a
researcher in this
study, explains: «Muscle strength peaks in young adulthood before declining in older age and low grip strength in adulthood has been associated with poor health
outcomes including diabetes, falls and fractures.
In the first
study evaluating patient - reported cosmetic
outcomes in a population - based cohort of older women with breast cancer, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
researchers found that less radiation was associated with improved cosmetic satisfaction long - term.
While the
researchers did not directly compare survival rates and neurological
outcomes with whether individual patients received bystander CPR or defibrillation, they did find increases in both over the duration of the
study.
Because women are increasingly seeking out acupuncture in order to induce ovulation,
researchers decided to
study whether or not the traditional Chinese medicine therapy could serve as a supplemental treatment along with clomiphene to improve pregnancy
outcomes.
Researchers said further
studies are also planned that use other methods to analyze the relationship between volume and
outcomes, follow patients after discharge from the hospital, and assess how patient
outcomes are affected as hospitals gain more experience with TAVR and the technology is refined over time.
Strengths of this
study, Dr. Li noted, included that
researchers used an objective measuring device and
studied a short - term
outcome (miscarriage) rather than one that will occur years or decades later, such as cancer or autoimmune diseases.
A new
study entitled «Oral Nutrition Supplements» Impact on Hospital
Outcomes in the Context of Affordable Care Act and New Medicare Reimbursement Policies» and conducted by leading
researchers at the University of Southern California, Stanford University, The Harris School at The University of Chicago and Precision Health Economics, and supported by Abbott, found that the use of oral nutritional supplements decreased the probability of 30 - day hospital readmission, length of stay and costs among hospitalized Medicare patients aged 65 and over.
Researchers at the Veterans Health Administration conducted a systematic review of 67 published
studies to determine the effectiveness of strategies to reduce or discontinue long - term opioid therapy prescribed for chronic pain and the effect of dose reduction or discontinuation on important patient
outcomes.
In 2014 - 2015, a decade after the disaster, the
researchers studied the long - term
outcomes of rebuilding efforts in the city and how residents there were affected.
Lauren Theilen, M.D. one of the primary
researchers of the
study and the presenter of the research at the upcoming SMFM annual meeting, explained, «Importantly, we are unable to say whether the hypertensive disease of pregnancy plays a causal role here, but we feel that further
study is warranted to determine whether interventions such as early screening for chronic disease may improve long - term health
outcomes among these women.»
In observational
studies,
researchers observe exposures and
outcomes for patients as they occur naturally in clinical care or real life.
A highly underutilized anesthesia technique called neuraxial anesthesia, also known as spinal or epidural anesthesia, improves
outcomes in patients undergoing hip or knee replacement, according to a new
study by
researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery.
The
researchers predict that the approach described in their
study will pave the way to further develop the modelling of biomedical parameters and large - scale datasets in order to improve biological knowledge and patient
outcome.
In a
study of national data on colon surgery, Johns Hopkins
researchers found that while patients who undergo either minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery or the high - tech robotic approach have similar
outcomes, robotic surgery is significantly more expensive.
The findings showed that healthcare databases have improved in number and quality, which allows
researchers to
study more products in diverse settings and to better evaluate some rare
outcomes.
This is the first research to look specifically at in utero exposure to extreme morning sickness, or Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG), and childhood neurologic developmental
outcomes, said
study first author Marlena Fejzo, an associate
researcher in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
In this current
study, the
researchers reviewed biologic knee replacement
outcomes related to BMC use in humans.
In devising their experiment, the
researchers took advantage of ambulance company practices that essentially provided a randomized group of patients to
study, making it possible to compare
outcomes at different hospitals.
In the review, the
researchers noted the mixed results of a total of thirteen quantitative
studies investigating whether and how depression is associated with substance - related
outcomes.
Researchers studied data from 2,279 heart failure patients in a trial called Heart Failure: A Controlled Trial Investigating
Outcomes of Exercise Training (HF - ACTION).
And no empirical data has tied
researchers» financial interests in a
study to negative
outcomes for patients.
«Clarification based on rigorous research
studies will permit
researchers to identify the conditions under which depression can influence substance abuse treatment retention and
outcomes, which in turn will help to specify when depression needs to be directly addressed with this population of young people,» explained the
researchers.
In addition to postoperative A-fib,
researchers are
studying, for example, what factors can improve
outcomes of surgeries performed on weekends; how many rectal cancer operations a hospital needs to perform for the best results; and whether having a trauma department confers a beneficial «halo effect» on patient
outcomes across the board.
What is now urgently needed, say
researchers, are precise
studies linking food, hormone levels and cancer
outcomes, such as the EPIC project — the continuing European collaboration that will link diet to the health of 400 000 Europeans over a decade or more («Britain's deadly diet», New Scientist, 11 May 1991).
Researchers have published a
study examining racial and ethnic influences in the
outcomes of patients with motor complete spinal cord injury (SCI).
Finally, salaries or bonuses for phase I
researchers at Pfizer do not depend upon the
outcomes of phase I
studies, so there is no financial incentive to «cheat.»»
Cinnamamide is the
outcome of a project that began 10 years ago when
researchers at Britain's Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food were
studying bullfinches.
The Columbia
researchers used data from peer - reviewed
studies and health and social sciences databases to assess the link between menarche and various negative sexual and reproductive health
outcomes in adolescence.
The
researchers found five different sub-types of HL among the patients
studied: 247 cases of the nodular sclerosis (NS) type, in which the tumour nodules are large; 105 of mixed cellularity, where a mixture of different types of inflammatory cells are involved; 58 lymphocyte rich, the sub-type with the best
outcome; 68 «others»; and 143 «not otherwise specified» (NOS).
The UB
researchers are conducting a longitudinal, five - year
study of these patients focused on the relationship between cerebral microbleeds, advances in magnetic resonance imaging and clinical
outcomes.