Follow-up of physicians who have participated in a counselling intervention showed that significantly reduced levels of emotional exhaustion, job stress, and emotion-focused coping found at one-year, compared with baseline, were maintained at three-year follow-up.
In this prospective three-year follow-up study of physicians who sought a counselling intervention, we found that the significantly reduced level of emotional exhaustion, job stress and emotion-focused coping seen after one year, compared with baseline, were maintained at three-year follow-up [ 26].
Contact was maintained with study participants between the baseline and follow-up exam via phone and mail.
These changes from baseline were maintained over time.
Concurrently, a control group (n = 6) was maintained with ad libitum access to a low sugar low fat baseline diet and normal water for 8 weeks.
In eyes treated with as-needed injections based on quarterly examinations during the third year, the baseline VA was the worst among the four groups, but the baseline VA was maintained at the end of the third year.
Although the significant improvement in the VA 2 years after the first injection (0.41±0.40, p=0.001, Student t test) was maintained compared with the baseline VA, the VA tended to decrease slightly during the second year.
Furthermore, baseline quality of life was maintained among patients treated with imatinib, whilst quality of life markedly deteriorated among patients treated with INF-alfa + cytarabine (P=0.001, Hahn et al. 2003).
