Those women actively excluded their partners from participation in, or discussion of, the management and treatment of their depression.
Participants will not be excluded based on their participation in exercise programmes (ie, participants who are participating and who are not participating in exercise programmes will be eligible).
The shift handover in this ward was conducted as "a ritual inheritance," [ 3] distant from patients hearing and vision, such as the ward manager's office or the nurses' station, thus excluding patients participation in their care.
After excluding 5 candidates due to their participation in other therapies, 33 female patients, aged 37 to 71 years of age, were selected to participate.
Parental permission can be an important source of bias if those adolescents at risk are systematically excluded because their parents deny their participation [ 38].
A total of 338 patients that were already treated in the secondary care for their diabetes were excluded from participation.
Women who are pregnant at the time of diagnosis are excluded from participation because of their differing motivational factors to remain in care compared with a non-pregnant, newly diagnosed population; interventions specifically targeted to this population to enhance their retention in care and different ART treatment guidelines.
A total of 192 people responded to our advertisements of which 143 were excluded from participation due to their not meeting the eligibility criteria, which primarily consisted of not meeting BMI and/or physical activity requirements (N=120); declining to participate (N=19) or other reasons (N=4).
Twelve PCC are excluded because their current participation in a different intervention could invalidate the results of this study.
Those in paid employment will be excluded because their workplace participation is likely to confer physical and mental health benefits that cannot be accessed by their nonworking peers [ 26, 57].
Participants with a glucose value above 7.0 mmol/L (confirmed with a second blood sample) will also be referred to their GP and then excluded for participation.
