Sentence examples for characteristics recruited from inspiring English sources

In order to analyse the effect of blinding on external validity of trial outcomes, the outcomes from recruited women in the placebo and the non-treatment arms were compared with those who were not recruited; also, the numbers and the proportion of women with different background characteristics recruited to blind and non-blind trial were compared.

This analysis tests the hypothesis that the effect of the prime seen in Study 1 was specific to participants with the demographic characteristics recruited for Study 1 (older or more educated or leaner individuals), and failure to see these effects in Study 2 was the result of the effects seen in Study 1 not generalizing to participants with broader demographic characteristics.

For analysing the effect of blinding on the selection bias (i.e. external validity), the numbers of women recruited to the blind and non-blind trial as well as the proportion of women with different background characteristics recruited to blind and non-blind trial were compared.

Table 1 provides data on all English practices and compares characteristics of recruited and not-recruited practices.

Baseline characteristics of recruited (n=293) and non-recruited (n=128) women are summarised in Table 2. Untraced women were more likely to be nulliparous, to have lower mean anthropometric indices and were more likely to have received formal schooling.

Factors increasing credibility in this study include that obstetricians with varying characteristics in relation to gender, age, length of experience in obstetric practice, and work settings (two hospitals with different characteristics) were recruited, and that none of the approached obstetricians declined participation.

This paper describes the study protocol used to evaluate the Resilient, Empowered, Active Living with Diabetes (REAL Diabetes) intervention and reports on baseline characteristics of recruited participants.

Based on this, eczema and non-eczema infants with known clinical characteristics were recruited, and their fecal microbiota were comparatively evaluated with different molecular tools.

Replacements with similar characteristics were recruited.

Characteristics of recruited staff are shown in Table  2.

Characteristics of recruited patients are presented in Table  2.