Sentences with phrase «sustained changes in behaviours»

Circadian rhythms are predictable, 24 hour self - sustained changes in behaviours, hormones, glandular activity etc..

It's important for the client to have a long enough engagement with the coach to sustain the change in behaviour.

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David Marrero, a specialist in diabetes prevention at Indiana University in Indianapolis, says he is impressed by reported changes in behaviour, but adds, «The question is how long it is sustained.»

Finding the subtleties in behaviour makes your classroom management more intelligent, more human and more likely to effect positive change that is sustained.

This finding is consistent with the results of other studies, 34 and many service providers are trying to find ways to encourage fathers to attend parenting programmes.35 Reports of difficulty sustaining behaviour change over time and the desire for further support have also been reported previously.9, 33 Continuing support to the group from both volunteers and professionals has been proposed as well as flexible, open access, non-structured sources of support.37 Previous studies have also suggested that 30 — 50 % of families who take part in parenting programmes are likely to show no benefit because of other events in their lives, and may therefore need more than a single intervention.36

Analyses of findings from an earlier intensive child development program for low birth weight children and their parents (the Infant Health and Development Program) suggest that the cognitive effects for the children were mediated through the effects on parents, and the effects on parents accounted for between 20 and 50 % of the child effects.10 A recent analysis of the Chicago Child Parent Centers, an early education program with a parent support component, examined the factors responsible for the program's significant long - term effects on increasing rates of school completion and decreasing rates of juvenile arrest.11 The authors conducted analyses to test alternative hypotheses about the pathways from the short - term significant effects on children's educational achievement at the end of preschool to these long - term effects, including (a) that the cognitive and language stimulation children experienced in the centres led to a sustained cognitive advantage that produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour; or (b) that the enhanced parenting practices, attitudes, expectations and involvement in children's education that occurred early in the program led to sustained changes in the home environments that made them more supportive of school achievement and behavioural norms, which in turn produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour.

Five major themes emerged: awareness of physical activity; sustaining physical activity behaviour change; improved health and well - being; enhanced social networks; and embedding physical activity in the workplace culture.

Community dietary patterns were found to respond directly to improved stock management and food supply, 5,6 and multistrategy, community - directed nutrition programs in some remote communities resulted in marked and sustained improvements in anthropometrical, biochemical and haematological risk factors for chronic disease.7, 8 Knowledge gained from such studies has broadened the focus of Indigenous nutrition initiatives to include the «supply side» (improving food quality and access to healthy food in remote communities) as well as the «demand side» (promoting nutrition through behaviour change).

Long - term follow - up showed that changes in attitudes were sustained and changes in child behaviour declined in magnitude but persisted.