Sentences with phrase «times that of study participants»

Study participants whose genome exhibited an «unfavorable» methylation status at five or more of these sites had a risk of death within the 14 - year observation period that was seven times that of study participants whose methylation at these positions showed no abnormalities.

Not exact matches

One of the three experiments in the study had 30 university students refraining from eating and drinking between 11 p.m. and the time they arrived to the study lab the next day, which was either 8:30 a.m. or 9:15 a.m. Half of the participants were served breakfast before the experiment, the others went straight to the Iowa Gambling Task.

For instance, one study randomly assigned participants to one of two groups: One group's members spent time on their social media pages, and the other group simply surfed the Internet.

Hartshorne employed the test in his study of how intelligence changes over time and found that participants» performance generally peaked in their late teens.

Not only did eating chocolate immediately boost participants» test scores, the study revealed that eating small amounts of chocolate daily boosted cognitive performance over a long period of time.

The study was designed so that each participant won two out of the four contests, but half the group faced off against the same opponent each time and won or lost by a narrow margin; these slight victories and losses to the same opponent encouraged feelings of rivalry among participants, who subsequently reported higher scores on the Machiavellianism scale.

Of the reviewed studies, seven were randomized and 30 were observational (meaning participants» habits and health were tracked over a set period of timeOf the reviewed studies, seven were randomized and 30 were observational (meaning participants» habits and health were tracked over a set period of timeof time).

According to a study (PDF) of 1,000 full - time office workers commissioned by Energy Focus and conducted by Wakefield Research, 69 percent of participants reported problems with office lights including glare, brightness, and excessive flicker.

Critically, half of the participants learned at this time that they would be required to take a five - day hiatus from Facebook (they knew from the study advert that this might be a possibility).

One study randomly assigned participants to one of two groups: half spent time on their MySpace page (really takes you back, doesn't it?)

The participants then followed one of three protocols — the first control group did nothing in particular, the second exercised for 35 minutes 40 minutes after studying, while the third group exercised for the same amount of time four hours later.

That led investigators to conclude that ResearchKit is «particularly suitable for studies of short duration that require rapid enrollment across diverse geographical locations, frequent data collection, and real - time feedback to participants,» according to Yvonne Chan, who heads up the digital health and personalized medicine unit at Mount Sinai.

One of the Mount Sinai researchers who worked on the study said that ResearchKit was «particularly suitable for studies of short duration that require rapid enrollment across diverse geographical locations, frequent data collection, and real - time feedback to participants.»

Overall, participants who maintained healthy eating patterns throughout the study period lowered their risk of death between 9 - 14 %, with even those who started out with unhealthy eating patterns seeing a reduced risk the more healthy food they added over time.

It's also possible, however, that the guiltiest study participants were simply right in their estimation of the uselessness of doing nothing — for them, playing a videogame or indulging in a Simpsons marathon really might not help much with their stress levels, making them completely correct in telling themselves to stop wasting time.

The series of studies tested the effects of power hierarchies on team productivity by creating teams with either a mixed propensity towards leadership — in one case some participants were primed to feel powerful by thinking of a time they wielded power over others while others subjects were asked to envision a time they were bossed around before joining the group — or teams made up entirely of hard charging leadership types or participants primed for a meeker, go along, get along approach.

In one lab study, a group of participants received emails from friends, family and co-workers describing a time they witnessed the individual performing at his or her best, while another group did not.

In the study of over 1300 participants, many revealed that summer was their least productive time of the year.

Indeed, in the last six months of the study, «62 per cent of Housing First (HF) participants were housed all of the time... whereas 31 per cent of treatment as usual (TAU) participants were housed all the time...» Further, «Among participants who were housed, housing quality was usually better and more consistent in HF residences than TAU residences.»

Participants may not necessarily give up their regular jobs or studies but they commit to a programme of prayer, worship, study, volunteering and spending time together.

A study in the Chinese Journal of Integrative Medicine found that participants who regularly sipped Kona Coffee lost six pounds over the course of the six - week time period.

A 2012 study on the experience of first - time moms who gave birth with epidurals, for example, found that participants reported that the epidural felt like a big relief, and that it helped make their birth experience more tolerable.

Delivery medical records, telephone surveys, and feeding diaries were used to assess study participant characteristics including delivery mode and feeding method at the time of stool sample collection (Table 1).

A previous study showed that in the Campania region, the prevalence of full breastfeeding at 6 months was 7 %.12 Assuming a 20 % loss to follow - up, we calculated that we would require ∼ 240 mother and father pairs to detect a statistically significant increase of 15 % (1 − α = 95 %, 1 − β = 80 %) in the rate of full breastfeeding at 6 months.13 To avoid communication between study groups, which would be likely if people who were admitted to the same hospital unit were exposed to different messages at the same time, we did not randomize the participants as it usually is done, 14 but we allocated the 2 study groups into 2 consecutive blocks of time, after having randomly paired the 2 study groups with the 2 blocks of time.

Each woman was asked to compete in a series of computerized time - reaction tasks against a research assistant posing as an overtly rude study participant.

The study, recently published in the Journal of Affective Disorders, is one of the first to evaluate the rate of depression in mothers at the three onset time points: 24.9 percent of participants developed depression pre-pregnancy, 36.7 percent developed it during pregnancy (prenatal) and 38.4 percent developed depression during the postpartum period.

Researched and written in a style similar to that undertaken by Anthony Seldon in his studies of Blair, Brown and Cameron, «Shippers» carried out in - depth interviews at the time and immediately after the referendum with nearly all the senior participants as well as bystanders.

In comparison, in healthy study participants the timing of carbohydrate intake did not play a significant role in blood glucose regulation.

Published in the British Medical Journal Open, the longitudinal study of more than 60,000 Australians aged 45 years and above measured participants fruit and vegetable consumption, lifestyle factors and psychological distress at two time points, 2006 - 08 and 2010.

Past psychological autopsy studies implicate depression in the majority of late - life suicides; however, when study participants were asked by psychiatrists about thoughts of death and suicide using a standard depression screening tool, elderly adults blamed factors other than depression 75 % of the time.

Of MESA participants studied, 86 percent had coronary artery calcium readings at three different times, with an average of 3.5 years between measurementOf MESA participants studied, 86 percent had coronary artery calcium readings at three different times, with an average of 3.5 years between measurementof 3.5 years between measurements.

In this study, Vogel and colleagues compared sun exposure and protection behaviors in long - term melanoma survivors with those who had never had the disease, asking participants about the amount of time they had spent outdoors in the summer, and about sun protection methods such as wearing sunscreen, staying in the shade, wearing hats, and intentionally tanning.

All of the participants in this study were Southern California university students, indicating that they grew up in a time in which the public health crisis frame was dominant and were residing in a region where pressures to be thin are especially intense.

Initially about one third of the 1,661 study participants received placebo, however the placebo group also received the vaccine 30 months into the study so those individuals were followed a shorter period of time, the researchers note.

A total of 19 prospective cohort studies with more than 760,000 participants were included in the analysis, and participants were followed for time periods ranging from four to 36 years.

After six months on the trial, 95 percent of participants reported no problems taking the drug, and while several discontinued treatment for varying periods of time during the study period, the investigators estimate that 90 percent would have tolerated the treatment if they had continued the full two years.

For comparison purposes, the other half of the participants across studies were either asked to recall a time that their father was present, or that their mother was absent, for an important event.

The researchers ran five different studies in which half of the female participants were randomly assigned to remember a time when their birth father was absent from an important life event.

After the participants studied a circle, they would pick its exact match from a series of 10 circles, presented one at a time.

The study asked participants to list tasks that took a certain amount of time, and to then envision completing these tasks.

The study — which encouraged daily consumption of fruits and vegetables in exchange for payment — not only showed monetary incentives worked, but that participants increased their internal motivation to eat fruits and vegetables over time.

The study, recently published in the Journal of Affective Disorders, is one of the first to evaluate the rate of depression in mothers at the three onset time points: 24.9 percent of participants developed depression pre-pregnancy, 36.7 percent developed it during pregnancy (prenatal) and 38.4 percent developed depression during the postpartum period.

In this situation, sensitivity on the IAT means that study participants would have a greater difference in response times to congruent pairings of shape and sound (a high position in space, and a high pitch, for example) in comparison to incongruent pairings.

Participants taking 4,000 international units — more than six times the daily 600 IUs the Institute of Medicine currently recommends for most adults and children — received the most benefit, says Dr. Anas Raed, research resident in the MCG Department of Medicine and the study's first author.

They also analyzed samples from 20 of the study participants (9 lens wearers and 11 non-lens wearers) at three time points over the course of six weeks.

Meanwhile, between the years 2000 and 2012, participants visited study clinics several times to undergo CT scanning to determine the amount of calcium deposits in their heart arteries.

The team embarked on a massive brain imaging study: Across 9 UK laboratories (University of Birmingham, University of Bristol, University of Edinburgh University of Glasgow, University of Kent, University College London, University of Oxford, University of Stirling, and University of York), 334 participants — 10 times the original amount — read sentences that were presented one word at a time, while electrical brain activity was recorded at the scalp.

All the participants were in their usual state of health at the times of measurement and, on average, had three study visits at which measurements were taken.

To follow up this correlational data with experimental evidence, the researchers conducted a second study in which they presented participants with the same pictures used in Study 1, but this time one of the pictures was manipulated to have either a smile or a neutral expresstudy in which they presented participants with the same pictures used in Study 1, but this time one of the pictures was manipulated to have either a smile or a neutral expresStudy 1, but this time one of the pictures was manipulated to have either a smile or a neutral expression.

What sets this study apart from others is the high number of participants, and that they exercised for a relatively long period of time.