Small focus groups are more comfortable for participants and preferable when the participants have a great deal to share about the topic or have had intense or lengthy experiences with the topic of discussion [ 25].
Eventually, this kind of slow, synchronised movement becomes comfortable, and participants really start to feel as though they are living in another person's body.
This procedure allowed us to generate the bubbles' masks for each experimental trial prior to the experimental sessions, thus reducing the time required to prepare the upcoming trial to approximately 4 s, which was relatively comfortable for participants.
In depth interviews were conducted in settings convenient and comfortable for participants and, with two exceptions, were audio recorded.
(F, G, I, 65 89) Interactions on buses were not always comfortable, and participants did complain about other passengers' luggage, loud teenagers, rudeness, and the competition over seating and space.
The authors gratefully acknowledge the contribution and assistance during the critical initial phase of this study provided by Monica Pratley and by providing a safe and comfortable environment for participants with chronic lung diseases and by coordinating the recruitment of those participants.
Interviews were carried out at the participant's own home (not in a clinical setting) which probably was more comfortable for the participants.
Riding more comfortable hybrid bikes, participants cover 15 to 50 miles a day as they explore this lesser-known corner of the Great Plains.
At a comfortable pace, study participants all took steps that were three quarters as long as their height.
To make participants comfortable and improve retention, interviews and measures of height and weight also were conducted in the home.
