Sentences with phrase «than the comparison group on»

Domitrovich, Cortes, and Greenberg (2007) found that the intervention group scored significantly better than the comparison group on the Assessment of Children's Emotions Scale — Accuracy, meaning children exposed to PATHS ® had a larger receptive emotion vocabulary and were more accurate in identifying feelings.

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It's also greater than the 3.4 percent rate of employment growth measure in a comparison group of small, non-clustered businesses based on Dun & Bradstreet data.

• When fathers of four - week - old infants were given a brief training in baby massage and the Burleigh Relaxation Bath technique with a particular emphasis on the father - infant relationship they were more involved with their infants (than a comparison group of fathers) two months on.

«Fathers at Work», a more recent multli - site US demonstration project which, like previous programmes, combined work around fathering with training / employment support reports participants earning $ 11,025 per year at follow - up (about twice as much as a comparison group and on average $ 4,602 more than before entering the programme).

The relative benefits and risks of birth in different settings have been widely debated in recent years.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 A problem when trying to evaluate the effect of birth setting on perinatal outcomes has been the use of actual place of birth rather than planned place of birth to define comparison groups.

Comparison of 2010 ethnic minority vote choices on the (also online) YouGov web panel with the more comprehensive Ethnic Minority British Election Study (EMBES) conducted in that same year shows that Tory support in the online sample is 10 points higher, and Labour support 13 - 18 points lower, than among the equivalent groups in the EMBES.

The second theory, comparative reference group theory, centers on comparison: The more status others in your network have than you, the worse you will feel about yourself.

The grades earned by the 901 students in the course featuring daily quizzes were, on average, about half a letter grade higher than those earned by a comparison group of 935 of Pennebaker and Gosling's previous students, who had experienced a more traditionally designed course covering the same material.

The factors that may differ between the groups, such as older age, obesity, smoking and diabetes, are known and can be controlled for, providing for comparison groups that may provide more information on the impact of heart failure on subsequent cancer occurrence than other heart disease groups.

• In schools transitioning gradually over two to three years, significantly more students in OC classrooms made high growth in the second year than in non-OC classrooms in the same and similar schools — by March 2015, 42 percent to 70 percent more made high growth, depending on the comparison group.

While students at both groups of schools did better than the trends projected in the years studied, closures produced positive and statistically significant impacts on several key outcomes for displaced students versus those in the comparison group (Figure 5).

For example, comparisons of the transcripts of 1990 and 2009 high school graduates reveal that larger percentages of 2009 graduates from all major racial and ethnic groups completed a rigorous curriculum than did comparable 1990 graduates, and, on average, 2009 graduates completed about 420 more hours of coursework than did 1990 graduates.

On average, these principals reported engaging in practices associated with instructional leadership and organizational improvement at higher rates than principals in the national comparison group.

In 23 trends measured, Edison students were making smaller gains on criterion - referenced tests than comparison groups.

These were: the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming (CAGW) hypothesis is invalid from a scientific viewpoint because it fails a number of critical comparisons with available observable data, the draft TSD was seriously dated and the updates made to an abortive 2007 version of the draft TSD used to prepare it were inadequate, and EPA should conduct an independent analysis of the science of global warming rather than adopting the conclusions of outside groups such as the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and U.S. Government reports based on IPCC's reports.

These results are similar to those found in other sustained nurse home visiting studies, 1 14 although the intervention impacted on a broader range of domains of the home environment for this subgroup of women than has been reported previously.1 An increasing body of evidence from both animal and human studies suggests that stress in pregnancy has significant impacts on developmental and behavioural outcomes for children.29 While the mental development of children of mothers who were not distressed antenatally in both the intervention and comparison groups was comparable with the general population, children's development was particularly poor in the distressed subgroup in the absence of the MECSH intervention, suggesting that sustained nurse home visiting may be particularly effective in ameliorating some adverse developmental impacts for children of mothers with antenatal distress.

Of those that examined immunizations (NFP - Memphis, HFA, HSP, EHS, Queensland, and Early Start), only EHS identified a significant program effect on immunizations, though the size of the effect was quite small and applied to the comparison of the entire treatment group to controls, not specifically to those families who had received home visits.70 The one - year follow - up of the Queensland program also suggested a trend in favor of the intervention group's having higher levels of vaccinations than the control group.71

Externalizing symptoms decreased more rapidily in the MDFT group than the comparison group; there was no difference on internalizing symptoms.

Analyses showed that the Families First group has a significantly lower recidivism rate than the comparison group, based on a one - year follow - up of new misdemeanor or felony charges, as well as significant reductions in rebellious and anti-social attitudes.

Results showed that the behavior of children of ACT Raising Safe Kids parents improved significantly more than the comparison group from pretest to posttest on the Conduct Problems subscale of the SDQ.