Which research conclusion about the effectiveness of the Nurse-Family Partnership is true?
A. The benefits of the intervention were the greatest for children from high-SES families.
B. Trained paraprofessionals were more effective than professional nurses in preventing delayed mental development.
C. As kindergartners, children in the program scored higher in language skills, but lower in intelligence, than comparison children.
D. From their baby's birth on, home-visited mothers were on a more favorable life course.
Answer: D
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A psychiatrist compared the records of patients diagnosed with depression only with those of patients diagnosed with depression and another disorder. What will her analysis reveal?
a) Depression as the sole diagnosis is associated with a longer course of illness. b) Depressed people with comorbid diagnoses tend to have a longer course of their illness. c) Depression as the sole diagnosis is more likely to respond to antidepressant medications. d) Depression with comorbid conditions is more likely to respond to antidepressant medications.
Which recessive genetic disorder occurs primarily among people of European Ashkenazi
Jewish ancestry, resulting in early death in those children afflicted with it? a. cystic fibrosis b. Tay-Sachs disease c. phenylketonuria d. sickle-cell anemia
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a) biochemical factors b) infection c) tumors d) repressed depressive symptoms