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In most counties, a positive trend in the number of suicides recorded over time is evident.

Both of these behaviors showed a positive trend when comparing the pre-test to both-follow-ups (Table 1 ).

Notably, our studied population was very small, and it is possible that we did not reach significance for the behaviors that approached significance due to under-powering.

There were a handful of behaviors that approached significant change across timepoints; namely, “Covered every electrical outlet” and “Installed more than two smoke detectors”.

Among the newly detected HIV infections and patients each year, the number of HIV infections and patients among students showed an increasing trend year by year, accounting for 1.64% of the total cases reported from January to June in 2011, up from 0.96% in 2006 [ 9 ].

The rates of hearing of nPEP services (48.6%), awareness of nPEP knowledge (16.5%), and acceptance of nPEP services (2.4%) among the college students, showed a trend of gradual decline.

Furthermore, the lack of access to antihypertensive drugs was greater in those individuals with less education (1–4 and 9–11 years). Regarding the characteristics of individuals according to chronic diseases, there was a higher prevalence of hypertension among female individuals, with a positive trend with age.

The simulated values based on NDGM showed an increasing trend for future.

Children in the middle age group (11–13 years) are 9 min more physically active (barely significant), and children in the oldest age group (14–17 years) are 18 min more physically active than children in the youngest age group (6–10 years).

The incidence rate showed a positive trend over 11 years for all age groups and syndromes.

Age had a highly significant, negative effect on reemployment probability.

The addition of the Karolinska and HCUP proposals for measuring multimorbidity showed better performance in explaining high use of medicines (i.e., more than 13) and primary care visits (i.e., more than 21). Regarding the various subpopulations investigated, all models showed a trend to perform better on the general adult population and worse on people > 65 years institutionalized in nursing homes for long-term care.

The occurrence of most outcomes showed an increasing trend with higher age and lower socioeconomic status.

In turn, the quality of the parent–child relationship was almost significantly associated with children’s unhealthy eating behaviors.

Given the large sample size, the p -value is likely to be significant even when differences may not be meaningful.

Another study, on the other hand, reported that there was a decreasing trend of perceived drug risk in conjunction with the increasing usage of drugs [ 58 ].

Another Cochrane review published in 2016 found that legislative smoking bans clearly lead to a reduction in exposure to SHS, strong evidence from the included studies supports a decline in admissions for acute coronary syndrome and a weak trend for a decrease in active smoking [ 30 ].

Moreover, evidence shows a decreasing trend in active smokers over years following smoking bans.

Patient delay The median time between symptom onset and first healthcare contact presented an increasing trend over the years, ranging from 33 days in 2008 to 44 days in 2017 (11 days difference) (Fig. 2 ).

However, higher satisfaction in the home office of the risk cluster is almost significant, interestingly in the opposite direction to the hypothesis.

In a study conducted in Hubei Province, China, the results of the spatial pattern of the Moran coefficient showed spatial clusters with an increasing trend and a sudden change, revealing that the high concentration of population caused the outbreak of the Corona-virus in the province [ 23 ].

The insufficient HPV knowledge may result from participants’ low capacity to obtain HPV-related information, a tendency we observed in our data that was only marginally significant.

For breast cancer in mothers, baseline rates of any breastfeeding at 6 months after birth were used, as evidence suggests that the effect of breastfeeding on the incidence of breast cancer may be significant from 6 months of breastfeeding onwards [ 17 , 18 ].

The above data shows an increasing trend in hypertension among T2DM patients in Bangladesh.

There is also manual sampling and a statistical trend analysis to monitor the expected range of records and deviations are investigated.