Future research should utilize valid and reliable built environment measures that are more specific to disability and should include people with and without disabilities to allow for testing of moderation of the built environment.
The exploratory tests of moderation and mediation suggest that reductions in intrusive parenting may explain treatment outcomes for early adolescents and offer interesting directions for future research.
However, this study used two different self-report measures to screen for depression, treated depression as a categorical variable, and did not conduct formal tests of moderation.
The modest sample size available in this study necessitates a circumspect view of the data, particularly with regard to the tests of moderation and mediation.
We will begin by testing bivariate associations throughout the model, culminating in structural equation modelling, including testing of moderation of effects by fetal sex and by timing in gestation of the floods.
We performed tests of moderation for the overall analysis and within each type of self-care behavior, if the results displayed significant heterogeneity and the number of studies was adequate.
Because of the relatively small sample employed in this study, these secondary analyses were considered as a hypothesis-generating mechanism to guide future research, not as definitive tests of moderation and mediation.
Tests of moderation by sex were also supported by our own data demonstrating a preponderance for women to report more life events as extremely stressful in all of the measured life domains (supplementary Tables A1 and A2, available in an online appendix at http://care.diabetesjournals.org/cgi/content/full/dc09-1027/DC1).
On the basis of twin studies suggesting that genetic influences on adolescent substance use are moderated by parental monitoring (Dick et al. 2007 b ) and peer substance use (Dick et al. 2007 a ), the researchers tested for moderation of the association of two genes associated with adult alcohol dependence in the Collaborative Studies on Genetics of Alcoholism project.
Significant variables were included in the logistic regression model and multicollinearity tests of statistical moderation were conducted.
Failure to identify any significant moderators may have been due to the low power of moderation tests [ 39] combined with the small sample size in this study.
