Sentences with phrase «socioeconomic groups who»

This could help those in lower socioeconomic groups who might not be able to afford college or a trade school.

«Nice kids from every socioeconomic group who want to be part of the «in crowd» get pregnant.»

Not exact matches

This is especially so in low - income or less educated population groups, who must be considered a major focus of any front - of - pack nutrition labelling systems because of the link between socioeconomic status and lifestyle diseases.

The cohort has a high representation of women from disadvantaged and lower socioeconomic groups, who are of particular interest in the targeting of breastfeeding interventions.29, 30 We can not exclude residual confounding by factors that we were not able to account for within this observational study.

Despite the widened socioeconomic inequalities by the intervention in rates of prolonged exclusive and any breastfeeding, breastfeeding rates were even higher among mothers with the lowest education (secondary school or less) in the intervention group than they were among mothers who completed university in the control group.

Models were developed using the following possible predictors of breastfeeding duration: maternal race, maternal education, paternal education, maternal age, socioeconomic status, 22 marital status, parity, mode of delivery, previous breastfeeding experience, timing of feeding method selection, problems with pregnancy / labor / delivery, breastfeeding goal (weeks), family preference for breastfeeding, paternal preference for breastfeeding, having friends who breastfed, randomization group, 16 plans to return to work, infant's 5 - minute Apgar score, and infant's age in minutes when first breastfed (first successful latch and feeding).

The comparison group included 375 first - generation immigrant children of similar racial / ethnic backgrounds and socioeconomic status who attended the same schools before the intervention was implemented.

Outcomes from the Knowledge in Action (KIA) project - based learning (PBL) Advanced Placement (AP) course (s) were compared with outcomes from traditionally taught AP courses among student groups who were matched for school - level achievement and socioeconomic status.

All I do know is that another proposal of mine, grouping NYC public school kids by ability, rather than age, would not only solve the perennial shortage of Gifted & Talented seats for all who qualify, it would also help with racial and socioeconomic diversity.

The Bethesda groups consisted of African American and Hispanic parents who were divided into two separate groups, based on the same socioeconomic divisions as the Baltimore groups.

The control group of 529 included individuals of the same age who participated in alternative early childhood programs in randomly selected schools and who matched the program group on socioeconomic status.

My «fairest» interpretation of the current albeit controversial research surrounding this particular issue is that bias does not exist across teacher - level estimates, but it certainly occurs when teachers are non-randomly assigned highly homogenous sets of students who are gifted, who are English Language Learners (ELLs), who are enrolled in special education programs, who disproportionately represent racial minority groups, who disproportionately come from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, and who have been retained in grade prior.

Then I insert a group of teachers (as Audrey described) who represent 20 % of a population and teach a disproportionate number of students who come from relatively lower socioeconomic, high racial minority, etc. backgrounds, and I assume this group is measured with negative bias on both indicators and this group has a moderate correlation between indicators of r = 0.50.

Indeed, Jay Belsky incorporated all of these risk factors into his process model of parenting, 11 and data from multiple studies support links to child well - being.12 In an experiment on the effectiveness of a program for low - birth - weight infants, Lawrence Berger and Jeanne Brooks - Gunn examined the relative effect of both socioeconomic status and parenting on child abuse and neglect (as measured by ratings of health providers who saw children in the treatment and control groups six times over the first three years of life, not by review of administrative data) and found that both factors contributed significantly and uniquely to the likelihood that a family was perceived to engage in some form of child maltreatment.13 The link between parenting behaviors and child maltreatment suggests that interventions that promote positive parenting behaviors would also contribute to lower rates of child maltreatment among families served.

This also applies to adolescents from lower socioeconomic groups, which in itself, is significantly linked to early childbearing (Akinbami, Cheng, & Kornfeld, 2001) as well as adolescents who have only one parent to provide them with guidance, emotional support and monitoring (Fraser, & Meares - Allen, 2004).

-- Adolescents born to women who received nurse visits during pregnancy and postnatally and who were unmarried and from households of low socioeconomic status (risk factors for antisocial behavior), in contrast with those in the comparison groups, reported fewer instances (incidence) of running away (0.24 vs 0.60; P =.003), fewer arrests (0.20 vs 0.45; P =.03), fewer convictions and violations of probation (0.09 vs 0.47; P <.001), fewer lifetime sex partners (0.92 vs 2.48; P =.003), fewer cigarettes smoked per day (1.50 vs 2.50; P =.10), and fewer days having consumed alcohol in the last 6 months (1.09 vs 2.49; P =.03).

We recruited two groups of Caucasian men who were born in families with a low socioeconomic status and were living at the time of the present study within 200 km from our laboratory.

And parents in high socioeconomic groups, of younger ages, and in who have given birth in more recent years tend to see the most negative effects on their marriage.