Apart from intervention exercises, neither group changed the amount of physical activity after the beginning of the study.
Patients were imaged twice, 24 hours apart without treatment intervention, using the same imaging and injection protocols.
We need more investment into methodological and substantive research in this area, for example, the use of fractionated factorial (Collins et al., 2011) and n-of-1 (Johnston, Jones, Charles, McCann, & McKee, 2013) designs to tease apart complex interventions and the extent to which theories can be generalised across populations, behaviours and contexts.
◆ Performance bias: differences in the treatment apart from the intervention tested, e.g. more contact, attention or efforts in the verum group.
We have assumed that patients in the three groups will have the same treatment apart from the interventions included in the study.
Apart from the intervention described in this paper, no co-interventions were involved.
However, there are a number of shortages still found, including the lack of treatment interventions apart from medications, the high proportion of treatments to be paid out-of-pocket, prominence of large tertiary psychiatric hospitals, and a lack of preventative measures or mental health information to the public.
Apart of the intervention costs, other costs were also slightly higher in the intervention group.
There is no realistic method of removing Saddam apart from military intervention.
"There's no human intervention, apart from the walking tracks".
