Sentences with phrase «small study sample»

Moreover, our small study sample size may explain the lack of support for our second hypothesis that adolescent sex would moderate the association between adolescent PA and body satisfaction.

«The APA has small study samples and if you get down to the definition that they use to classify gays as ok you begin to laugh.

Not exact matches

A few of these include a too - small sample size and the simple fact that the participants knew what was being studied and were aware of the hypothesis.

These studies can be problematic because they include small research samples or rely on people to accurately self - report their drinking habits.

A new meta - analysis of studies with 102 samples covering 56,984 firms finds a small but significant positive relationship on average between employee stock ownership and firm performance.25 The positive relationship holds across firm size and has increased over time, possibly because firms are learning to implement employee stock ownership more effectively.

I concur that a sample size of 60 men is small, and I would support a larger, modernized study.

The 2003 study had a small sample, so Roissman, et al, conducted a more thorough and broader series of studies in 2008.

The not - so - late Doctor Reginald Stockhausen proved the theories of the esteemed Dr. Eric M.D. Berne to be base on a small sampling and inherently flawed due to a comprised control study.

Call me skeptical, but the sampling in this study is so small that it seems to be statistically insignificant.

The sample size was small, and the researchers stated that the research findings indicate the need for a randomised control trial (RCT) as RCT's are widely recognised as the best study design.

Did you know that the studies that show phytic acid is an antinutrient were poorly designed and based on small sample sizes?

«The study methodology comprises a very small sample size (160 people) and using a 12 month recall questionnaire to ascertain consumptions patterns.

Maybe you should link these so called studies in your posts... I'm willing to be they have small sample sizes, use highly abnormal cases, or have agendas.

Your study includes just 120 undergraduate men, straight and gay; isn't that too small a sample to really know what's going on for men?

A study from 2010 acknowledged, yes, «in the short - term, kids go through a one - to two - year crisis period when their parents divorce,» but the idea of staying together for the kids is problematic, especially if it's a high - conflict family, and that previous research indicating people should stay together «has been plagued by many data problems — reliance on small samples derived from one therapy clinic, retrospective reports, and cross sectional data.»

«The sample size was too small,» is a common complaint, no matter what the size of the study might be.

However, this population - based, case - control study was limited by a low participation rate of 50 % among eligible cases and 41 % among eligible controls and a small sample size of 185 SIDS cases.

The swim - lesson study, for instance, which focused on a small sample of parents teaching their kids to swim, found that «fathers tend to stand behind their children so the children face their social environment, whereas mothers tend to position themselves in front of their children, seeking to establish visual contact with the children.»

Personally, I find it rather ironic that you're lecturing the blog author on the rigor of language, when, faced with the need to support the claims made by a documentary that has faced absolutely no real standards of intellectual rigor or merit (the kind of evidence you apparently find convincing), you have so far managed to produce a study with a sample size too small to conclude anything, a review paper that basically summarized well known connections between vaginal and amniotic flora and poor outcomes in labor and birth before attempting to rescue what would have been just another OB review article with a few attention grabbing sentences about long term health implications, and a review article published in a trash journal.

Previous attempts to evaluate the Baby Friendly Initiative within an observational study design have often been limited by small sample size or reliance upon ecological measures of confounding factors.16, 17 The advantage of the Millennium Cohort Study is the availability of individual - level social and demographic information, as well as the circumstances of pregnancy and delivery, allowing adjustment for factors that in other studies may be associated with both policy intervention and infant feeding practices, via area or individual population differestudy design have often been limited by small sample size or reliance upon ecological measures of confounding factors.16, 17 The advantage of the Millennium Cohort Study is the availability of individual - level social and demographic information, as well as the circumstances of pregnancy and delivery, allowing adjustment for factors that in other studies may be associated with both policy intervention and infant feeding practices, via area or individual population differeStudy is the availability of individual - level social and demographic information, as well as the circumstances of pregnancy and delivery, allowing adjustment for factors that in other studies may be associated with both policy intervention and infant feeding practices, via area or individual population differences.

[23] Likewise, putting a stitch in the neck of the womb (a cervical suture) to prevent premature birth has not been shown to work in women carrying more than one baby due to the small sample sizes in the studies.

A common issue is that nutritional studies are often plagued with a number of biases and are often poorly designed (small samples, cross-sectional, etc.) Still, it makes as much sense to use the 6 month marker for all babies for eating solids as it does expecting your child to walk right at 12 months, to speak at 15 months, and to eliminate on a potty at 24 months on the dot.

A prospective, controlled study of the effect of breast milk on infection among low birth weight infants was conducted in India in 1981.18 Although the sample size was small, 62 infants, the study design was a randomized block design in which feeding schedules for breast milk or formula were randomly allocated within groups of infants that were determined to be relatively homogeneous with respect to factors predisposing to infection.

«This study adds to previous research conducted in smaller sample groups that also showed this approach does not increase the risk of a baby choking, and indeed in the UK, supports the Department of Health recommendation that babies can have finger foods from six months old.»

In the past, one of the main complaints about other studies has been the size of the sample which was said to be too small.

In fact, one study that claimed to have found negative consequences of bed - sharing, such as children internalizing problems with prolonged bed - sharing, had a small sample size and limited information on why the children were sharing a bed with their mom according to Redbook.

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.

One study found that bedroom heating, compared with no bedroom heating, increases SIDS risk (OR: 4.5), 235 and another study has also demonstrated a decreased risk of SIDS in a well - ventilated bedroom (windows and doors open)(OR: 0.4).296 In 1 study, the use of a fan seemed to reduce the risk of SIDS (adjusted OR: 0.28 [95 % CI: 0.10 — 0.77]-RRB-.297 However, because of the possibility of recall bias, the small sample size of controls using fans (n = 36), a lack of detail about the location and types of fans used, and the weak link to a mechanism, this study's results should be interpreted with caution.

In this study, the association of maternal alcohol drinking in the 3 months before or during pregnancy was of borderline significance on univariate analysis but was not significant when prenatal smoking and case - versus - control status were in the model.39 However, this study had limited power for multivariate analysis because of its small sample size.

The city last studied adverse health issues for Staten Island residents near Fresh Kills in 1997, but its sample size was small and it was before 9/11, Borelli said.

Early studies suggested widespread infection was possible, but the samples were too small to be sure.

The sample sizes of both studies were small — fewer than 20 experimental subjects each.

The study sample size was small and it used only one intensity of light, 1,000 lux, which is far greater than the intensity of a typical handheld electronic device, she notes.

Until recently, most studies examining oxytocin treatment for autism have used small sample sizes and involved only one or two hits of the hormone.

«Previous studies have demonstrated an association between stress and skin symptoms, but those studies relied on small patient samples, did not use standardized tools, are anecdotal in nature, or focused their analyses on a single skin disease,» says Gil Yosopovitch, MD, Chair of the Department of Dermatology at LKSOM, Director of the Temple Itch Center, and corresponding author of the study.

The few studies that have incorporated other training modalities, such as physical fitness training or noninvasive brain stimulation, have been small in sample size, short in time or narrow in scope, he said.

An analysis of 41,302 blood samples taken from the entire study at different time points found that a child who had an intermediate antibody level and became infected again had a 7.64 times higher risk of being in the small group that developed DHS / DSS, researchers report today in Science.

Because the sample was so small, it isn't possible to determine how employment outcomes depend on factors such as field of study or location.

By studying core samples taken from the river delta, the research team, led by Zhen Li of East China Normal University in Shanghai and colleagues, detected patterns and sizes of charcoal to indicate fire distance (small particles can travel farther than 100 meters, whereas larger ones stay put) as well as pollen to deduce the presence of either crops or nonagricultural flora.

To be sure, the study used a small sample size and has not yet proved causation, but «if we can train people to sense their interoceptive states,» Tsakiris says, «it might make a change in their body image.

In a proof - of - concept study, a team led by a Johns Hopkins researcher reports that the vast majority of edible cannabis products sold in a small sample of medical marijuana dispensaries carried labels that overstated or understated the amount of delta -9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).

Although the sample size was small in her study, Erin Cech says she found that «an additional axis of being a minority makes it more difficult to find a connection among their peers.

One way to study the solar system's formative period is to look for samples of small crystalline particles that were formed at high temperatures but now exist in icy comets.

The authors note that prior studies have reported elevated levels of distress among people with cancer, but they vary in quality due to small sample sizes, different diagnostic criteria and assessment standards, and an over-representation of women with breast cancer.

The small tags in each ear indicate that this individual had been previously captured and genetic material was sampled as part of a study to understand the dynamics of the hybrid zone in southern California.

A link between prenatal hormone exposure and later sexual orientation is intuitively intriguing — but the study's problems go beyond small sample size

A global analysis of metabolites and small molecules in urine samples from patients with adrenal cancer has identified four biochemicals that, when measured together, can distinguish malignant from benign adrenal tumors, according to study results presented at the 2015 Annual Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons.

Although the study sample is small, these data suggest that glutamate levels in the LDLPFC are associated with alcohol - craving intensity in patients with AUDs.

With brain - imaging studies, the samples are small, and the causality is uncertain.

Limitations of the study include a small sample size.