Caregiving environment was measured by administering the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME) Inventory during a 12-month home visit (Caldwell and Bradley 2003).
We can also test emerging hypotheses about the mechanisms of action borne out of the interviews by administering further self-report measures to new cohorts of patients at baseline, 3 month and 12 month follow up.
In order to select the best stimuli for our experimental purpose, the familiarity of the names and their degrees of forename-surname associativeness were measured by administering two questionnaires to a preliminary group of 18 judges (5 men and 13 women, 18 35 years of age).
Cognitive function was measured by administering the Spanish version of the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), which has been validated and adjusted by age and schooling time [ 14].
At T2, 6 months after T1, retention of knowledge was measured by administering the knowledge test to both groups, whereas the intervention group also completed the applicability questionnaire.
13 16 As presence of depression was considered to be a potential confounder, depressive symptoms were measured by administering the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 on all participants.
Physical activity was measured by administering the Short Questionnaire to Assess Health-Enhancing Physical Activity (SQUASH) [ 22] and objectively during 7 consecutive days by having the women wear a GT3X+ activity monitor (ActiGraph, Pensacola, FL, USA) [ 23, 24].
It was also evident from the qualitative data (not presented here), that health literacy was a key issue in this group of patients, and this could have been examined by administering a health literacy measure [ 98].
The children's psychiatric symptoms were measured by administering to parents the Child Behavior Checklist 1.5-5 or the Child Behavior Checklist 6 18 [ 36], according to the children's respective ages.
