Sentences with phrase «younger ages of the participants»

No positive associations were found between need satisfaction with friends and well - being, which may be due to the somewhat younger ages of the participants, as peers become increasingly important during adolescence.

Not exact matches

A meta - analysis of American interventions with very young fathers points to quality intensive community - based interventions with a good understanding of gender: the staff (who were experienced, empathetic, enthusiastic, and well connected into their communities) partnered with community organisations and used incentives to draw the young men in; they utilized needs assessments and participant feedback; developed one - on - one relationships with their young clients and provided mentoring; offered a comprehensive array of services delivered in engaging and interactive ways which incorporated teaching methods and materials appropriate to young men's culture, sex and age.

Because the Bird - a-thon is an event for birders of all ages and levels of experience, undoubtedly some of the more common species will be those longest remembered by some of the newer or younger Bird - a-thon participants - and therein lays the great joy of birding!

Bird - a-thon attracts participants of all ages and abilities, including families, young people, and longtime veterans of the competition.

Excess General Liability: Covers NAYS Officials, but only while acting in their capacity as officials during youth sport activities, which are defined as non-scholastic sports involving participants 19 years of age and younger.

A NAYS Coach is covered while acting in their capacity as a coach during youth sport activities, which are defined as non-scholastic sports involving participants 19 years of age and younger.

The bird identification marathon attracts participants of all ages and abilities, including families and young people, as well as longtime veterans of the competition and others for whom birding is a serious avocation.

In what is being called «the nation's worst crisis in the history of the Black family,» hearing participants attributed the degenerating situation to the particularly disturbing plight of young African - American men, half of whom are now unemployed, and have 30 percent chance of serving time in prison before age 30.

Younger participants 50 to 54 years of age seemed to benefit at least as much from the screening interventions as older participants ages 55 to 64 years.

But there were wide variations: A handful were up to a decade younger, while many had a biological age in their 50s; one participant had a biological age of 61.

To evaluate whether the experimental treatment is safe and whether it might be able to reduce frailty, Maharaj plans to run a battery of baseline testing on each clinical trial participant before they get their first infusion of young plasma and then monitor their changes for two years: That means cognitive exams, questionnaires about their quality of life and their indicators of frailty, and tests to measure biomarkers he believes are linked with aging, such as telomere lengths and DNA methylation.

Then there's the West Palm Beach symposium, held to recruit participants for a study testing what happens when aging people get infusions of plasma (the fluid part of blood packed with signaling proteins and other molecules but no red or white cells) from young people who've taken a drug meant to activate their immune system.

Vitamin E decreased the risk of pneumonia by 35 % in 7,469 participants who had started smoking at a later age, at 21 years or older, whereas the vitamin had no apparent effect on pneumonia for those who had started to smoke at a younger age.

Of the 1,518 participants (753 girls [average age, 11.4 years]; 451 boys [average age, 11.5 years]; and 314 adolescent girls and young women [average age, 21 years]-RRB-, 1,474 completed the study and data from 1,377 were analyzed.

Backtracking into the data on these study participants, the researchers found that about 20 % of the relationship between credit scores and heart health was accounted for by the attitudes, behaviors and competencies displayed by the study members when they were younger than age 10.

Data from the substudy presented today illustrate that bone mineral density decreased a measurable but clinically insignificant amount over the course of a year in young adult males and transgender participants with an average age of 24 taking a protective amount of PrEP.

Overall middle - aged participants were more likely to say they were in a period of crisis (24 per cent) compared to younger adults (22 per cent) and older adults (14 per cent).

Given the young age of this study group, Liu and colleagues chose not to analyze the details participants reported about the types of fish consumed, though they plan to do so for work on an older cohort in the future.

In a study that followed more than 13,000 young people from age 14 to age 20, researchers found that the prevalence of eating disorders in the male study participants rose from 1.2 % at age 14 to 2.9 % at age 20.

Researchers in Europe tracked the mental function of more than 7,000 British civil servants for a decade, and they found that even the youngest participants, who were between the ages of 45 and 49 at the outset, generally displayed slight yet measurable declines in short - term memory, mental reasoning, and verbal facility over the course of the study.

In a recent study in the journal Brain, young to middle - aged adults who'd had at least one concussion and had genetic risk factors for Alzheimer's had less gray matter in parts of the brain associated with dementia, compared to other study participants.

60 participants between the ages of 25 and 45 were recruited for the study, and the researchers discovered that study participants who were middle - aged that had higher levels of the nutrient lutein had neural responses equivalent to that of younger participants.

The 2735 participants included in the present analysis were significantly younger than the 757 participants who had not provided a complete or plausible FFQ at baseline (median age: 65 y compared with 70 y), less likely to be current smokers (13.6 % compared with 17.4 %), and less likely to have diabetes (7.5 % compared with 9.7 %) or CVD (18.2 % compared with 24.9 %) at baseline; they were also less likely to die during the 13 - y follow - up of all causes (31 % compared with 52 %) and of inflammatory diseases (6 % compared with 10 %)(all P < 0.05).

In a recent prospective analysis of National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data, decaffeinated coffee consumption was associated with a lower risk of type 2 diabetes only in younger participants (aged ≤ 60 years)(3).

Early Childhood Milwaukee Public Library provides early literacy education for daycare providers and parents, resulting in more than 1,000 young participants who form critical reading connections and brain development during the first 1,000 days of life in Ready to Read early literacy programs for ages 0 — 5.

Researchers from Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, tracked the eye movements and brain activity of 36 younger participants aged 21 - 34 and 21 older adults aged 60 and above as they read text from e-readers, tablet computers, and printed pages.

And in fact, research shows that 401 (k) participants who own target funds are less likely to end up in portfolios with «extreme» allocations for their age — that is, young savers with little or no equity exposure and older investors with all or nearly all of their money invested in stocks.

The same comparison of recommended equity allocation can also be used to evaluate a hybrid QDIA vehicle — one for which a target - date fund (TDF) is used for the younger demographic then participants would move to a managed account at a certain age.

For younger Generation Y participants, 55 % had all of their assets in a target - date fund, providing this population with a considerable improvement in their age - based asset allocation over prior years.

For instance, a study examining the influence of implausible anchors found that participants who were asked if Gandhi was older or younger than 9 when he died estimated his age at death to be 50, whereas participants who were given the anchor age of 140 estimated his age as 67.

For example, among those not subject to automatic enrollment, 45 % of participants younger than 40 are full TDF users versus only 25 % of participants age 40 or older.

For the Dolphin Swim, participants must be a minimum of 8 years of age and 4 feet tall, and children 11 and younger must be accompanied by a participating adult.

Trecartin was included in the first New Museum Triennial in 2009, «Younger Than Jesus,» named for the cut - off age of its participants.

Robert Hunter (1947 — 2014), then 21 years of age, was the youngest participant in «The Field», following his first solo exhibition at Melbourne's Tolarno Galleries earlier the same year.

In tandem with the exhibition, a Young Curators Council is developing public programming, in consultation with the artist, as part of a paid curatorial mentorship program for five selected participants, aged 17 - 21.

(That's why it was so inspiring to see a wide range of participants — from a young labor lawyer to an aged oceanographer — in the Vatican meeting on «Sustainable Humanity, Sustainable Planet, Our Responsibility» a year ago.)

Fire Mentoring Program participants are recruited through Job Corps, a Department of Labor initiative that offers free education and vocational training to economically disadvantaged young people aged 16 - 24.

Drivers ed in West Virginia is offered to teen drivers younger than the age of 18, who want to learn safe driving techniques and become better traffic participants.

Studies had to be published during or after 2000, involved 10 or more participants aged 12 years or younger with a diagnosis of ASD and could include studies with children younger than 2 who were at risk for ASD.

This is in keeping with a cross-sectional study of Aboriginal children aged 14 or under living in Brisbane, which found more than half to have experienced a stressful life event in the last year.46 Living in a family that had experienced less than two stressful life events in the past year was associated with six times higher odds of good mental health among adolescents but was not significant in the final models for the cohort overall or among the younger participants specifically.

One - third of the participants (32.0 %) were in the younger cohort; at Time 1, their mean age was 12.8 years (SD = 0.8) and at Time 2 their mean age was 17.2 years (SD = 0.6).

Participants were 97 young people aged 15 to 25, each with a moderate level of psychological distress and concurrent risky alcohol / drug use.

Similar to findings from SASH, childhood sexual abuse emerged as a particularly robust risk factor for suicide attempts in younger participants in the WMHS cross-national analysis, with a 10.9 times higher OR of suicide attempts in children, a 6.1 times higher likelihood in adolescents and a 2.9-fold risk in young adults who were exposed.20 This is in keeping with the Enns hypothesis that sexual abuse results in suicidal behaviour at a younger age.21 Consistent with other studies, childhood physical and sexual abuse, in particular, emerged as risk factors for the emergence and persistence of suicidal behaviour, especially in adolescence.

The average participant, at the time of study entry, was young (half were under age 21), and one in two reported experiencing food insecurity in the past year.

A significant effect of age revealed that older participants were judged to express greater negative affect than young participants.

Moreover, although the use of a community sample ensured a wider age range (18 to 65 years) and older average age (23 years) than are typically found in most (usually college) participant samples, the majority of participants in this study were still relatively young, with approximately 60 % falling in the 20 - 29 age range.

MIL and attachment measures were collected from 992 participants of three age - groups, young adults (21 — 30), established adults (31 — 49), and older adults (50 — 65).

For example, in a study that compared the self - reported emotional experience of younger, middle - aged, and older adults, older participants (those aged 60 + years) were more likely to agree with statements, which reflected high levels of emotional control and mood stability (Lawton, Kleban, Rajagopal, & Dean, 1992).

Age was not analyzed as a continuous variable in our path model as the vast majority of our participants were in their 50s and 60s (56 %) or 70s (34 %) and, therefore, did not well represent the entire age range included in the sample (5 % of the sample was younger than 50 years and 5 % of the sample was 80 years or oldeAge was not analyzed as a continuous variable in our path model as the vast majority of our participants were in their 50s and 60s (56 %) or 70s (34 %) and, therefore, did not well represent the entire age range included in the sample (5 % of the sample was younger than 50 years and 5 % of the sample was 80 years or oldeage range included in the sample (5 % of the sample was younger than 50 years and 5 % of the sample was 80 years or older).

Participant Demographic Information Variables Mother's age Child's age (N = 233) M / SD 31.33 (6.04) M / SD 3.32 (1.03) Percentage 79.8 % 5.2 % 4.7 % 4.3 % 1.3 % 1.3 % 3.4 % Percentage 1.3 % 6.9 % 7.7 % 13.7 % 12.0 % 11.2 % 9.4 % 37.6 % Percentage 8.6 % 3.9 % 36.1 % 38.2 % 12.4 % 0.9 % Percentage 9.4 % 14.2 % 73.0 % 1.3 % 1.3 % 0.9 % Sample The sample examined for this study consisted of 233 mothers who had young children between 2 and 5 years old.