Sentences with phrase «year study assessing»

Challenge Success has completed a three - year study assessing the results of our program at 30 of our partner schools.

The two - year study assessed the benefits of an enhanced oral health promotion programme, which included closely supervised tooth brushing with an effective toothpaste containing 1,450 ppm fluoride, compared to customary oral hygiene procedures.

This prospective 20 - year study assessed associations between maternal depressive symptoms in infancy, childhood, and adolescence, and child and adolescent depressive symptoms in a sample of families at high psychosocial risk.

Not exact matches

A total of 236 Canadian employers were assessed this year as part of Aon's Best Employers in Canada studies.

In a five - year study of nearly 5,000 married couples ranging in age from 19 to 89, where approximately 75 % of couples composed of spouses who both worked, researchers assessed participants» personalities by looking at the Big Five personality traits — openness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism and conscientiousness.

After assessing the three studies, he concludes we must cut spending or raise taxes by 11 % of GDP, «rather quickly over the next five to 10 years.

From studying the surveys he concluded: «While professional forecasters as a group have had some ability to assess the probability that GDP will decline in the next three months, they have exhibited no ability to do so a year in the future.»

In this tenth year since its publication, it is fitting to review critically the Danforth study and to assess its implications for theological education in the next decade.

Baseline pre-injury and post-injury neuropsychological or neurocognitive testing is now commonplace at the professional and collegiate level, and has become more and more common at the high school level as well, with a recent study showing computerized neuropsychological testing being used to assess fully 41.2 % of concussions at schools with at least one athletic trainer on staff in the 2009 - 2010 year, [2] an increase of 15.5 % from the 25.7 % of concussions in which such testing was used in assessing concussions during the 2008 - 2009 school year.

They could provide a mechanism for conducting longitudinal studies on head trauma, allowing researchers to assess years of data on the frequency, magnitude and ramifications of head impacts.

A small study of 60 randomly selected 7 - year - old children, 31 delivered by cesarean and 29 delivered vaginally, assessed microbiota composition by determining fecal microbiota profiles using culture - independent fluorescent in situ hybridization and compared the respective effects of delivery mode on gut microbiota (12).

The randomized study, working with 1,345 third to fifth graders (8 - 11 year olds) in nine US elementary schools, assessed the efficacy of a three - year programme.

Sears et al (30) performed a landmark birth cohort study in which 1037 children in New Zealand were followed from age 3 years and assessed every 2 — 5 years from ages 9 to 26 years.

Another study of 2,900 Australian infants assessed at ages 1, 2 3, 5, 8, 10, and 14 years found that infants breastfed for 6 months or longer, had lower externalizing, internalizing, and total behaviour problem scores throughout childhood and into adolescence than never breastfed and infants fed for less than 6 months.8 These differences remained after statistical control for the presence of both biological parents in the home, low income and other factors associated with poor mental health.

Inclusion criteria: live, singleton, term or near term infant delivered in 12 h before recruitment; women ≥ 21 years residing in defined study area, intending to breastfeed and with satisfactory home circumstances (assessed by postpartum nurses)

AAAS is partnering with HelpAge USA to conduct a study assessing the prevalence of sexual and gender - based violence (GBV) among persons older than 49 years of age in populations of protracted displacement.

The researchers undertook a nationally representative prospective cohort study of 1,112 school - based adolescents aged 13 - 16 years, and assessed them at baseline, three - months and 12 - months for childhood trauma (defined as physical assault and bullying) and psychotic experiences.

It is the first study of its kind to include initiation and completion rates and assess data across multiple years.

A comprehensive review of 50 year's worth of international studies assessing the benefits and harms of mammography screening suggests that the benefits of the screening are often overestimated, while harms are underestimated.

Some scientists plan to assess the stability of the remaining ice shelf, others will map the region's seafloor topography and still others want to study the newly exposed ecosystem that's been hidden from the sun for up to 120,000 years (SN Online: 10/13/17).

In the new study, the team assessed 112,793 people aged 65 years and older that had been diagnosed with heart failure in Quebec between 2001 and 2011.

A one - year study currently being run by the National Institutes of Health is assessing the hormone's impact on vitality and anaemia, but data won't be out until late 2014

For the follow - up study, outcomes were assessed at 4 years, a time point when any subtle effects on development should have emerged and can be more reliably assessed.

Physician assistant studies majors Jamie Phillipich, left, and Margie Webb surveyed 1,000 first - year students to assess the influence media has on the perception of HPV and vaccine compliance.

Now, several research groups aim to assess the stability of the remaining ice shelf, map the region's seafloor and study a newly exposed ecosystem that's been hidden from the sun for up to 120,000 years.

While it is challenging to assess the overall impact on the population of such a wide ranging and elusive big cat, the virus contributed to the decline of one well - studied sub-population, which went from 38 individuals to 9 between the years 2007 and 2012.

The study assessed the prevalence of sarcopenia and its association with physical performance in 1000 elderly Japanese participants (349 men and 651 women aged ≥ 65 years) enrolled in the Research on Osteoarthritis / Osteoporosis Against Disability (ROAD) Sstudy assessed the prevalence of sarcopenia and its association with physical performance in 1000 elderly Japanese participants (349 men and 651 women aged ≥ 65 years) enrolled in the Research on Osteoarthritis / Osteoporosis Against Disability (ROAD) StudyStudy.

This study assessed the association of antidepressant prescription at hospital discharge with the one - year outcomes of patients with acute myocardial infarction (heart attack).

The study assessed ambulance - dispatch patterns in New York state, over a period of several years, to examine how otherwise similar groups of patients fare when given varying levels of treatment; different hospitals tend to provide different levels of treatment, and thus expenses, in emergency care.

During the median 16 years of follow - up, study participants were assessed for the development of invasive breast cancer, and cancer cases were evaluated for estrogen receptor (ER) positivity.

During the one - year study period, the students were assessed for a range of outcomes, including sexual health attitudes, knowledge, intention to initiate sex, and sexual activity.

Cognitive performance and other clinical measures, including the United Parkinson Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS), Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE), and Hoehn and Yahr scales, were assessed at the beginning of the study and subsequently every 6 months, with an average follow - up time of 1.8 years and maximum of 8 years.

The researchers assessed the ability to balance — an indicator of prenatal neurodevelopment — of almost 7000 ten year olds who were part of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC).

They assessed people in the study every year until their deaths or the study's conclusion, for an average of 5.9 years, and monitored patients» eating habits using food journals.

According to lead author Professor John Deanfield from University College London (UCL) in the UK, «Our study is unique because it followed individuals for such a long time, more than 60 years, and allowed us to assess the effect of modest, real - life changes in adiposity.

Assessing the impact of any exposure to radiation in the environment may require cohort studies to look for a raised incidence of cancers years from now among people living in regions with raised levels of contamination.

«While Lisfranc injuries have a reputation for resulting in poor player performance in the NFL, our study is the first to fully assess their career impact, including effect on athletic performance following return to competition,» said lead author Kevin J. McHale, MD, a fifth - year orthopedic resident at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

NIH now requires a recipient of a grant in excess of $ 500,000 in any year to develop a data sharing plan that is reviewed by the study section that assesses the grant proposal, Liu said.

This retrospective study was based on a previous quality improvement project that assessed mental health issues among English - speaking patients, 12 years of age or older.

The dietary habits of 2,332 men aged between 42 and 60 years were assessed at the baseline of the Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study, KIHD, at the University of Eastern Finland in 1984 - 1989.

A new study of 513,501 mothers and 1,164,750 of their children born across 15 years aimed to take genetics out of the equation by assessing maternal and infant weight only for those women who had more than one child.

For the study, researchers assessed the fitness status of 2,153 men, aged 70 years and older with high blood pressure by a standard treadmill exercise test.

Maria Carrillo, vice president of medical and scientific relations at the Alzheimer's Association, an advocacy group, applauds NIH's giving the trial a green light: Targeting the APOE4 population will «increase the possibility that participants in the trial will become symptomatic during the period of the study so that the scientists can assess whether the drug intervention is having an impact on delaying or preventing Alzheimer's symptoms, without having to wait 10 or 15 years or more,» she says.

In a countrywide representative sample, the study assessed almost 1,500 Guatemalans, men and women between 18 and 65 years old.

Earlier this year, researchers published a large study in which they assessed 590 women in the US for stereotype - threat.

In one study Australian researchers asked 624 high school students about their lives and nightmares during the past year and assessed their stress levels.

The researchers assessed PA using the Longitudinal Ageing Study Amsterdam Physical Activity Questionnaire at baseline and followed patients for up to 5 years.

With this in mind, LSE researchers set out to study the nature and extent of the «intangible» impact of the Olympic Games by using measures of subjective wellbeing that have been developed and tested by economists and psychologists for around 20 years in order to assess how people think and feel about their lives.

Fahy and his colleague Steve Elliott stress that their three - year project is simply a feasibility study to assess whether such technology would be worth developing.

The study protocol calls for the children to be monitored for 15 years in order to assess the treatment's safety and efficacy.