Sentence examples for child attrition from inspiring English sources

About 61% of the recruited sample continued to attend the programs in Grade 3, although the number of programs was reduced due to child attrition from the programs.

Given poorer children may have slower growth rates than richer children, so the attrition of poorer children can lead to a downward bias in our estimate of the effect of being left behind on children's growth rates.

We did not obtain blood samples from all children, and this attrition may have reduced the statistical power to detect all relevant associations.

Much depends on NGO availability; Effective targeting of the most disadvantaged, vulnerable and at risk children; ECE teacher attrition rates are high; and Need for better disaggregated data on ECD (by gender/school/Township) for planning and M&E.

Those children lost to attrition also had significantly greater levels of parent-reported (9.97 vs. 8.47) and teacher-reported (6.66 vs. 5.28) mental health difficulties at the initial assessment.

Results in Tables  4 and 6 suggest that the observed associations do not differ between children living with parents and non-parents, thus it is unlikely that differential attrition between children residing with biological parents versus other children substantively biased our estimates.

These differences may reflect the higher proportion of older children who die of injury, 31 attrition as some children with chronic conditions die at a young age, and underascertainment of mental health problems, which are mainly managed in the community, in older children who died.

Further exacerbating the underrepresentation of children facing higher levels of adversity in this study was the higher rate of attrition for children facing greater adversity.

There was significantly less attrition in children receiving food supplementation compared to other groups (p = 0.029).

Attrition of children at risk for HIV infection from PMTCT programs and subsequent presentation in hospital has been noted in other settings [ 24].

A large medical record review [ 28] examined attrition in children and youth with obesity who attended only one appointment at a specialized clinic and found that African-Americans and those with managed care insurance were more likely to dropout than Caucasians and those with indemnity insurance coverage.