After one year, children who continued music training showed greater improvement in verbal memory while those who had discontinued training did not improve.
Two participants discontinued training due to knee pain unrelated to the training and one for personal reasons (Table 2).
However, based on the findings on the role of TBAs in bringing down maternal mortality, the government of Tanzania no longer recognises TBAs as partners in maternal health and has discontinued training and collaboration with them [ 67].
The aim of the present study was to identify the personality and metacognitive beliefs that predict individuals' adherence to a regular training regime and the likelihood that they discontinue training.
But the deputy secretary of defense, Paul D. Wolfowitz, sent a letter to Congress saying that the Navy was "planning to discontinue training operations on the island of Vieques in May of 2003, contingent upon the identification and establishment of a suitable alternative".
Nicolelis says that since then, three of the others have also improved enough to be upgraded similarly; the only one who didn't had to move away and discontinue training.
Discontinuing training for the potential traditional birth attendants who are actually capable to provide appropriate care has been claimed to bring more harm than good [ 54].
Several respondents mentioned national policies that discouraged TBAs from practicing or discontinued their training: "...There is no more TBA training program [in] Nepal".
Between April and July 2000, a survey on PRM training practices was sent to 82 PM&R departments with fax and telephone follow-up to nonresponders and to those departments that had discontinued their training program.
