While not powered to detect clinically significant outcomes, changes in target behaviors indicated positive trends at six month follow-up and statistically significant improvement was also observed for depression.
Categorical analyses also indicated positive trends with increasing exposures for both cancers: for kidney cancer HRs for increasing exposure quartiles were 1.0, 1.48, 1.48, and 1.58 (linear trend test p = 0.18) and for testicular cancer, HRs were 1.0, 1.91, 1.91, 3.17 (linear trend test p = 0.04).
Cohen's d scores on outcome measures indicate positive trends associated with Dads Matter in the quality of the mother-father relationship, perceived stress reported by both parents, fathers' involvement with the child, maltreatment indicators, and fathers' verbalizations toward the infant.
Same study indicated a positive trend for kernel weight for US, Canada and Argentinian hybrids.
Annual analysis of the ETo series indicated a positive trend in 70% of the stations according to the Mann Kendall test and the Sen's slope estimator and in 75% of the stations according to the linear regression.
Similarly, while exercise has long been advocated as an effective treatment modality for depression [ 80] and a recent study recent study by Lavretsky et al.[ 81] showed the positive effects of Tai Chi on depression when complimenting anti-depressants, the Tai Chi study by Yeung et al.[ 63] only indicated a positive trend towards amelioration of depressive symptoms.
Previous findings related to CRC testing and educational attainment for persons with a family history of CRC are mixed, with some studies indicating a positive trend [ 29, 30, 48] and others indicating no association between CRC testing and level of education [ 28, 38, 47].
For these interaction terms, an odds ratio less than unity indicates a negative trend, while an odds ratio greater than unity indicates a positive trend compared to Japanese Americans.
These comparatively low rates in our patients might indicate a positive trend as a result of knowledge gained in the past few decades.
Between 50,000 and 60,000 deals were funded by angel investors in 2012, and the number of new deals is increasing year-over-year, indicating a positive trend for entrepreneurs.
And while the numbers do not seem to indicate a positive trend toward curricular inclusion of educational content related to transgender health, Ehrenfeld said there are other indicators of growing interest in and demand for the material among medical students and medical educators.
