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Hansen, Berit Hjelde; Skirbekk, Benedicte; Oerbeck, Beate; Wentzel-Larsen, Tore; Kristensen, Hanne – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2013
This study examines the persistence of sleep problems over 18 months in 76 referred children with anxiety disorders and/or attention deficit hyperactivity disorders (ADHD) and 31 nonreferred controls, and explores predictors of sleep problems at follow-up (T2) in the referred children. Diagnoses were assessed at initial assessment (T1) using the…
Descriptors: Persistence, Educational Attainment, Anxiety Disorders, Anxiety
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Burde, Dana – Comparative Education Review, 2012
Randomized trials have experienced a marked surge in endorsement and popularity in education research in the past decade. This surge reignited paradigm debates and spurred qualitative critics to accuse these experimental designs of eclipsing qualitative research. This article reviews a current iteration of this debate and examines two randomized…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Research Methodology, Research Design, Qualitative Research
FPG Child Development Institute, 2012
Do the positive effects of an intensive early childhood educational program extend into adulthood? FPG researchers used comprehensive longitudinal data from the Abecedarian Project to try to answer that important question. The Abecedarian Project was a prospective randomized trial involving primarily African-American families (98%) that began in…
Descriptors: Child Care, Young Children, Early Childhood Education, Primary Education
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Ochocka, Joanna; Nelson, Geoffrey; Janzen, Rich; Trainor, John – Journal of Community Psychology, 2006
This article examines the outcomes of participation in mental health Consumer/Survivor Initiatives (CSIs) and identifies helpful qualities of CSIs through a longitudinal, qualitative study that involved in-depth interviews of people who experienced severe mental health challenges in Ontario, Canada. We used a nonequivalent control group design in…
Descriptors: Mental Health Programs, Health Services, Community Organizations, Self Help Programs