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Showing 1 to 20 of 105 for “"treatment control"”.
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Cue-controlled relaxation : a behavioral approach for reducing test anxiety in elementary school children
… this study was to investigate the effects of cue-controlled relaxation on reducing test anxiety of elementary school children. The major research hypothesis was as follows: There will be a statistically significant difference in posttest median scores obtained on the Test Anxiety Scale for …
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Psychosocial factors associated with self-management and well-being in childhood chronic illness
… between papers were identified. Overall, treatment control beliefs were most consistently associated with self-management across a range of chronic health conditions. The empirical paper details a cross-sectional study investigating associations between illness representations, …
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Effects of Three Interventions with International College Students Referred for Adjustment and Language Difficulties: A Preliminary Study
… international students were assigned to treatment groups including expressive group counseling (n = 14), group speech therapy (n = 14), interdisciplinary counseling/speech intervention (n = 13), and the no treatment control (n = 13). Three null hypotheses were analyzed using a two factor …
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Effects of orthognathic surgery on quality of life compared with non-surgical controls in an American population
… orthodontic patients compared with matched controls. Methods: Subjects were patients presenting to a graduate orthodontic clinic or dental faculty practice with facial skeletal mal-relationship whose proposed treatment plan included orthognathic surgery or who had previously received …
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A self-help behavioral activation treatment for geriatric depressive symptoms
… behavioral activation (BA)bibliotherapy as a treatment for late-life depressive symptoms. BA bibliotherapy was administered using Addis and Martell's (2004) Overcoming Depression One Step at a Time as a stand-alone treatment that was completed by participants over a 4-week period. Results of …
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The effects of response interruption and redirection on language skills in children with vocal stereotypy
… behavioral intervention (EIBI), the recommended treatment approach for children with ASD, and its effects on the acquisition of language skills. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of RIRD when delivered during EIBI programming. Participants were six 4- and 5-year-old …
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A controlled comparative investigation of psychological treatments for chronic sleep-onset insomnia
… to either progressive relaxation, stimulus control, paradoxical intention, placebo or no treatment control groups. Following baseline assessment of sleep pattern and quality subjects received 8 weeks of treatment, comprising 4 weeks under counterdemand and 4 weeks under positive demand …
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The effects of short term interpersonal cognitive problem solving therapy with young children
… pre-school children compared to an alternative treatment of Music Therapy (MT). The MT treatment served to investigate the relationship between creativity and Alternative Solutions Thinking (AST). No treatment control was included in the design (Study 1). Seven-month follow-up measures of …
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The acquisition of competence in social and community living skills: studies on the relationship between acquisition competence and social and emotional adjustment: the issue of maintenance; and methods of training
… tape presentations, slides and discussion. A No-Treatment Control Group of 15 subjects was also employed.<br/><br/>Two main categories of assessment were employed. Firstly, general functioning was assessed using the ABS Adaptive Behaviour Scale, the Goldberg General Health Questionnaire and the …
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Interacting Beliefs and Processes in Mothers of Children Diagnosed with Autism
… this distinction was not found for beliefs about treatment being able to control the disorder versus behaviors. Consequently, the quantitative strand of this study aimed to determine whether the mothers’ beliefs about locus of control interacted with beliefs about treatment control. It was …
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Psychological Distress and Marijuana Use Before and After Treatment: Testing Cognitive-Behavioral Hypotheses
Adult marijuana users seeking treatment (N = 291) were randomly assigned to 3 treatment conditions: 1) a cognitive-behavioral relapse prevention support group (RPSG), 2) individualized assessment and advice group, and 3) delayed treatment control group. The purpose of this study was to examine the …
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Hypnotherapy with nocturnal enuretic boys
… the present study was to provide an adequately controlled experimental and clinical study to assess the efficacy of hypnotherapy in the treatment of nocturnal enuresis. Hypnotherapy was operationally defined in terms of current research in hypnosis. Subjects were 48 nocturnal enuretic boys, aged …
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Two computer-graphics variations (animated vs still) and their impact on the knowledge and performance of cognitive-behavioral skills: fire-safety training
… Each of the training groups was compared to a no-treatment control group. Performance on dependent measures was assessed prior to and immediately following training. Hypotheses predicted that the behavioral and animated graphics conditions would produce the greatest level of skill and knowledge …
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The Effect of Goal Setting on Marijuana Treatment Outcomes: the Role of Self-Efficacy
Adult marijuana users seeking treatment (N = 291) were randomly assigned to 3 treatment conditions: 1) a cognitive-behavioral relapse prevention support group (RPSG), 2) individualized assessment and advice group, and 3) delayed treatment control group. The purpose of this study was to investigate …
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Is the Written Component of Tootling Effective? A Comparison of the Group Contingency to a Comparison Writing Procedure
… to a comparison writing procedure and a no-treatment control condition. Although this study demonstrated variable results, it is the first study to shed light on the importance of looking at the individual components of the tootling intervention. The results and outcomes of the study are …
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Impacts of dust suppressant application in the quality of urban runoff in arid regions
… products and one plot did not receive treatment (control). Rainfall was simulated and the runoff emanating from each plot was collected and analyzed for several parameters. In addition, the top two inches of soil from each plot were sampled after the rainfall events to determine the …
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Some Clustering Approaches for High-dimensional Data
… gene expression profile clustering based on treatment control differences and account for the covariance structure between repeated measurements of the same gene over time and between biological replicates. An Rcpp implementation of these methods is provided for efficient computation. For …
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Gratitude and health: a brief intervention to reduce undergraduate stress
… to a gratitude-list, objects-list, or no-treatment control condition. The gratitude intervention did not have a significant impact on perceived stress. However, results provided further evidence that there is a relationship between gratitude and perceived stress. The impact of gender-role …
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Proposing the mindful check-in: a brief mindfulness exercise
… traditional mindful breathing exercise and a no-treatment control condition to the mindful check-in on measures of mindfulness, psychological flexibility, affect, compassion, and adherence to the proposed practice schedule. Statistical analyses showed that the mindful check-in reduced negative …
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Learning experiments in a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course)
We present results from two treatment / control experiments in the 8.MReV: Mechanics ReView massive open online course (MOOC) run on edX.org during summer 2014. We compare the efficacy of physics homework problems: (1) traditional physics problems involving many skills, (2) deliberate-practice …
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