Participants completed an online survey assessing first-year weight-gain perceived norms along with weight-change expectations and concerns.
We focus on two metrics of performance: (a) search protocol performance, a local gain perceived directly by peer-to-peer network users and (b) network utilization, a global property that is of interest to network service providers.
Respondents gain perceived anonymity, so telephone surveys may be very useful in collecting data of a sensitive nature [ 8, 9].
In a randomized controlled trial (RCT), Klerman et al. [ 16] assessed the impact of quality antenatal care, defined as additional visits with psychosocial support, on maternal (smoking cessation, weight gain, perceived mastery) and infant (gestational age, birth weight) outcomes.
Further, considerable information can be gained if clinicians not only evaluate the treatment gains as perceived by the parents, but also their working alliance with parents [ 17].
The intervention group made significantly higher gains in perceived behavioural control, intention and behaviour for both target behaviours, suggesting that the intervention was successful.
Consequently, CTC following non-laxative or reduced-laxative preparations is not likely to result in greater uptake than following full-laxative preparation as any gains in perceived burden are undermined by the reduction in sensitivity.
Conversely, when participant choice behavior is controlled by immediate gain-loss, the perceived gain will keep subjects on the same deck.
This allowed us to gauge actual learning gains versus the perceived learning gains that were primarily assessed in the surveys.
Fans and critics have spent the last week fretting over the morality of his decision and whether concepts of patriotism and solidarity outweigh those of personal gain and perceived greed.
