Sentences with phrase «than the control group did»

The diabetes and neuropathy groups had more stiffness in their Achilles tendons and less range of motion in the joints than the control group did.

Not exact matches

«The children in the group who did a task in a way that made them laugh learned the target actions more than those in the control group who were not laughing during the learning period,» she reports.

Delta, United Airlines, Hertz, and MetLife are among more than a dozen companies that have cut ties with the National Rifle Association after gun - control activists encouraged people to boycott brands that did business with the guns - rights group.

The trial doesn't have a control group, but that seem's much longer than patients who relapse after treatment with Jakafi.

The results of a recent randomized trial of CSRP showed that children who spent their prekindergarten year in a CSRP Head Start classroom had, at the end of the school year, substantially higher attention skills, greater impulse control, and better performance on executive - function tasks than did children in a control group.

While I agree that much of the research out there for PRP is less than desirable, I think it important to cite to some studies as a counterpoint which do have large numbers, platelet concentrations and control groups.

There is experimental evidence that this old standby really helps: In a study that randomly assigned fearful children to receive a toy «huggy puppy,» kids exhibited fewer nighttime fears and sleep problems than did children in a control group.

When researchers randomly assigned some primary school students to perform three acts of kindness each week, those kids became more popular than did children in a control group (Layous et al 2012).

Mothers in the intervention group (77 %) reported enjoying breastfeeding more than mothers in the control group (69 %) whose partner did not receive the antenatal education session intervention.

The differences were small, though — in the latter study, the babies spent eight minutes less in REM sleep, on average, in those first few hours than babies in the control group did.

Given the desirability of breastfeeding, it is possible that women in the intervention group felt more guilty about discontinuing breastfeeding than control women because of relationships developed with the peer counselor, and thus, they did not answer telephone calls when the research assistant called to ascertain feeding status.

Dr. Rachel Klein, PhD, professor of psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine, and a group of colleagues did a 2 - year controlled study of more than 100 school - aged kids back in the late 1970s, and then followed up with them repeatedly over 33 years.

In another study, fathers with children enrolled in Early Head Start employed significantly more complex social play interactions with their 24 - month - olds than did fathers with children in a control group.17 These studies suggest possible benefits to fathers who become involved in Head Start, but more studies are needed to replicate these findings and to demonstrate how fathers and children are affected by participation.

In a study of 78 children whose doctors had recommended tonsillectomies to treat sleep - disordered breathing and 27 who were scheduled for other kinds of surgery, Chervin's group found that not only did the tonsil kids have a higher incidence of ADHD than the control group but that a year after the surgery their behavior and concentration had significantly improved.

The mice with lower levels of KMO showed impairments in contextual memory and spent less time than did a control group interacting with an unfamiliar mouse in a social setting.

The active control group completed different computer - based cognitive training tasks than the experimental group, but did the same number of sessions of the same amount of time as the experimental group.

Participants who understood BRONCANTO's rules exhibited very different reactions to sentences containing an error in sentence structure or grammar than did members of the control group: initially, upon hearing a blunder, the electrical impulses to one region of the brain decreased.

Another problem is that modeling studies, like this one, are inherently less powerful than other kinds of medical research: randomized clinical trials, the gold standard in medical research, in which patients are randomly assigned different treatments or no treatment; case - control studies, which compare patients who have a condition with those who do not; or cohort studies, which determine the risk of contracting a disease by studying a group of people with similar demographics.

When Esseily and her colleagues studied their data, they found that the children who laughed at the antics of the adults were able to repeat the action themselves more successfully than those who didn't laugh, as well as those who were included in the «humorless» control group.

Black students in the experimental group, in contrast, did significantly better academically than their peers in the control group — cutting in half the average achievement gap between racial groups seen at the start of the study.

When Kolb put them through a series of cognitive and spatial - ability tests, the vitamin - charged rats did markedly better than the control group.

On the third day, patients in the methadone group didn't require hydromorphone, compared to less than 1 mg in the control group.

On average, both groups did slightly better on these tests than control subjects who read either a nonfiction article or nothing at all.

Thyroid disease is more common than in both control groups; type 1 diabetes is more common than in the group that had heart surgery with the thymus intact; and rheumatic diseases and hypersensitivity to gluten are more common than among those who did not undergo surgery.

After 10 generations, the line of fighting flies had become much more aggressive than a group of control flies, and after 20 generations, the aggressive insects scored more than 30 times higher than the controls did on a «fighting index» that measured how ferociously they fought, Dierick and Greenspan report online 13 August in Nature Genetics.

Surprise, surprise, the distracted group didn't do as well on the test — 10 points worse than the control group.

Results showed the first two groups didn't develop PCOS, unlike the mice in the control group, whereas the test subjects with ovary ARs still contracted the disease, albeit at a lower rate than the normal mice.

Over an eight - week period, a control group of mice fed a high - fat diet predictably became obese, but the mice whose Hedgehog pathway had been activated didn't gain any more weight than another control group fed on a normal diet.

While all groups, on average, lost weight, the women who exercised with a PT did not lose significantly more weight than the control subjects and some women in the training groups even gained weight.

«But not having a comparison to a control group [of children without ADHD], I'm not sure that's higher or lower than what the student population would be doing.»

The placebo - taking control group took 32 % longer than they did before undergoing the knee - replacement surgery.

A study done in California found that people who took nine milligrams of DCT experienced more energy expenditure and burned more calories than the control group.

In an interesting study in the Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research, cold water immersion BEFORE a weight - training workout, resulted in significantly greater strength gains than both the control group (who did nothing before the workout), and the group that was immersed in HOT water before the workout.

But they did better than the control group, and fewer of them developed diabetes because of it.

This study may be more interesting than the above since the control group from above did not exercise or take the supplement while this control group did still exercise.

Tesch et al. (1984) reported that vastus lateralis type II fiber proportion was greater in a combined group of Olympic weightlifters and powerlifters than in a group of endurance athletes, but did not differ from an untrained control group.

Though the no - poultry fish group did marginally better than the control group, the difference was not statistically significant.

One study found that a group of wrestlers who ingested 52 grams of BCAAs a day retained more muscle and lost more fat than the control group who didn't supplement [viii].

The meta - analysis also found respiratory fitness improved to a greater level than it did in those who took part in continuous training, as well as those who were in the control group.

These anecdotes are supported by research showing that students who are taught to develop mental imagery of text do better than control groups on tests of comprehension and recall.

They didn't score higher than the comparison group in self - control.

• We learned that the use of video did not save administrators» time; in fact, treatment administrators reported spending more time on the observation process than the control group.

Students assigned by lottery to see A Christmas Carol or Hamlet scored significantly higher on our tolerance measure than did the control - group students.

In the earlier study, students who toured an art museum expressed significantly stronger interest in future museum attendance and actually returned to the museum at higher rates than did the control group.

Even the control - group students did much better than chance in picking the correct answer out of four multiple - choice options for each question.

An evaluation of the initiative by academics at Sheffield Hallam University found that those pupils who took part in the study made an average of two months more progress in English and science than a similar group of pupils who did not take part, and therefore formed a control group.

Also, Hispanic parents in the control group continued to rate their children's schools more favorably than did African American parents.

Data also show that students in the reduced - size classrooms had higher standardized test scores in reading and mathematics than did students in the control group.»

Black students who attended D.C. private schools for two years scored 9.0 percentile points higher on the two tests combined than did students in the control group.

One experimental study in 2014 by Anne Gregory and colleagues found that teachers in the MTP program suspended students less often than teachers in the control group, and when suspensions did occur, MTP teachers had equal suspension rates for African American and white students.