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Also, there is an increasing trend in these associations, meaning that the proportion of children who are on track in their ECD increases along with the number of media used by their mothers.

This is supported by the statistical analysis which found that the main effect of intervention condition ( F (1, 1022) = 5.25, p = .02) was significant while that of wave ( F (1, 1022) = 3.15, p = .07) was marginally significant.

Again, it is likely that missing data and the choice to conduct a complete case analysis contributed to the borderline significance, given that n = 329 for Model 8.

We considered a p -value between 0.05 and 0.10 to be borderline significant.

Since the FFB-Mot showed moderately significant associations with fitness batteries in prior research, the use of self-reported questionnaires such as the FFB-Mot may be a simple and cost-effective way of assessing fitness in research studies.

Positive EAPC here represents an increasing trend of ASMR or ASDR, and negative EAPC represents a decreasing trend of ASMR or ASDR.

Study findings confirmed that direct and indirect relationships between factors associated with resilience identified during Lockdown 1, were comparable to Lockdown 2 (based on β coefficients and p -values); the notable exception being the relationship between social life limitations and psychological health, which was significant during Lockdown 1, while trending towards significance during Lockdown 2.

Correlation of flood occurrence and duration with malaria incidence in children under five years According to Table 1 , the rate of malaria incidence in children < 5 years showed a moderately significant, albeit weak and negative correlation with flood occurrences within the three decades.

The percentages of the vaccinated participants showed an increasing trend during the study period (Supplementary Fig. 1, Additional file 1 ).

These mediation effects were highly significant and further added to our notion that SEP plays a significant contributing role to one’s overall health and that this relationship is mediated by perceived weight, i.e., being overweight.

Globally, the mortality risk of successive younger birth cohorts also showed a trend of differences among SDI quintiles.

While our objective was not to explore the role of parental smoking and socioeconomic status in their children’s smoking, we acknowledge that these factors may be significant contributors to smoking inequalities among offspring, and future studies could investigate their role.

In the age group of less than one year, both classes 1 and 3 exhibited significant mean slope estimates, indicating a decreasing trend in the frequencies of causes of death from 2014 to 2018.

The other community and social context variable, the social association rate, is positive and marginally significant at the 10 percent level for all counties.

4 ) does not exhibit an increasing trend, followed by a peak and finally a decline to be considered as a pandemic wave.

Therefore, LBC may benefit less from the emotional support, good public norms and resources associated with neighborhood cohesion, and the role of neighborhood cohesion in suppressing the family income gradient in depression may be significant among only the NLBC.

In addition, the coefficients in the female sub-sample (Table 6 ) are mostly insignificant, with few marginally significant coefficients.

Although a positive trend was identified, no statistically significant relationship was found between Pb, Hg and risk of sleep disturbance after adjusting for covariates in the fully adjusted model (Model 2).

A previous study revealed an increasing trend in the incidence of CRC in China from 1990 to 2016, with the most significant increase in the cases under the age of 50 [ 9 ].

Results Before the pandemic, there was an increasing trend in fentanyl-related visits for males, females and 25- to 64-year-olds, and a decreasing trend in heroin-related visits for males and 18- to 64-year-olds.

The ITS analysis did not find a significant trend in ED visits related to pooled opioids for overall cases, males, or females.

Metformin has been reported to reduce the risk of COVID-19 severity [ 22 ]; while the present results showed a trend toward reduced risk, no significant difference was observed.

What was decisive for our research question was the interaction term of the vaccination rate and the 3G dummy, whose effect was estimated to be highly significant at -0.021.

A previous systematic review and meta-analysis on physical activity demonstrated a pooled overall effect on quality of life of AYA cancer survivors in favour of physical exercise interventions, but with marginal significance [ 27 ].

For all tests, p < 0.05 indicated a significant difference, and p < 0.01 indicated a highly significant difference.