As shown in Fig. 3, message fatigue led to diminishing intervention impact among patients receiving tailored messages, random messages, or simple reminders.
Therefore, selective response may have influenced the result, and the abovementioned selection may have diminished the intervention effect.
In the comparison of intensive vs less intense care, only shoulder dystocia was significantly diminished by intervention, with no significant change in LGA/macrosomia or birth trauma.
Finally, though we anticipated gender-matched navigation would facilitate communication, male patients have demonstrated less receptivity to social support in the clinical setting than women [ 34], which additionally could have diminished the intervention's effect.
Behavioural research has confirmed that the impact of a behavioural intervention diminishes once the intervention ceases.
By the same token, most people fail to understand that for a growing number of complex tasks performance is improved by removing or diminishing human intervention.
In this article, we describe a number of prospective love-diminishing interventions, and offer a preliminary ethical framework for dealing with them responsibly should they arise.
Assuming that advances in neuroimaging, neurobiology, brain modeling, and drug delivery continue to hone the effectiveness (and target specificity) of love-diminishing interventions, we may one day find ourselves with an array of pills, biochips, and neuroceuticals that could successfully "treat" problematic passions perhaps even at a low cost and with limited side effects.
The longitudinal design, ultimately, revealed that the effect of the intervention diminished at time 3 such that there were no statistically significant differences between the intervention and the control groups.
The intervention effect diminished 6 months after the intervention (OR = 1.10; 95% CI: 0.58 2.08).
