A more diverse sample with a longer instructional interim may improve the generalizability of the current findings.
In order to ensure a diverse sample with respect to student major and gender, a dual approach was used to recruit participants.
Additionally, surveillance of hospital staff-ILA would provide a large, diverse sample with a known denominator.
The strengths of this study include a large, ethnically and socioeconomically diverse sample with objectively measured height and weight.
First, although our recruitment strategies yielded a diverse sample with regard to race or ethnicity and serostatus, the methods used to gather the sample produced a convenience sample; therefore generalizations should be limited.
It is worth noting that T0 was a highly diverse sample, with multiple genera having abundances in the range of 0.1 0.9%, explaining why the total fraction only reached about 75% (see Figure S8).
In addition, although we were able to recruit a diverse sample with respect to languages and care settings, the use of uniform self-report data collection in the survey (to minimise measurement bias introduced by using both staff and patient rating) may have introduced a sampling bias in that those with very poor health status could not participate.
It provides an opportunity to examine IH and both its structural predictors and its associations with HIV risk behaviour in a large and geographically diverse sample, with sufficient countries to enable analysis by country-level (macro) as well as local-level (meso) and individual-level (micro) variables.
18 19 Findings supported our plans to conduct a large randomised controlled trial (RCT) to test whether the WHC intervention yielded reductions in substance use and partner violence and improvements in sexual risk when applied to a more culturally diverse sample with more illicit drug use.
Our outcome measure, the SCNS-SF34, is a well-validated tool for assessing multiple dimensions of supportive care need and was developed with diverse samples of individuals diagnosed with cancer in terms of cancer type and time since diagnosis [ 27].
