SMD between intervention group participants and control group participants were calculated, and the limit for clinical relevance was set at a low level of SMD = 0.12 in order to detect even small effect sizes that can be of importance for individual persons.
Strict adherence to the current guidelines is therefore of key importance for older persons with diabetes, regardless of the presence or absence of cardiovascular disease or the level of glucose or blood pressure control.
Our clinical experience with migrants in the Swiss community led to the subsequent adaptation of these items and the inclusion of two additional ones (feeling at ease for expressing emotions in French versus in the individual's mother tongue; importance for the person to rest, after his or her death, in Switzerland versus in country of origin).
Each item included a rating scale to indicate item importance for a person's QoL.
Further, traditional measures of social support, as used in the current research, do not take into account modern forms of socialisation such as instant video, chat and text messaging and social networking services, nor do they consider the importance of persons outside the community for sustaining mental health.
From the literature on cognitive psychology and the disciplines that relate to spatial cognition, we already know the representational importance of landmarks for persons who are unfamiliar with a location.
7 9 In high-income countries, our results have particular importance for Aboriginal population, persons who inject drugs, prison populations, and certain migrant and minority populations.
However, we also found that the trajectory of care held different possibilities of and preconditions for care which could produce good memories, something which seemed to be of importance for the injured persons' ability to move on and feel well despite their injured bodies and limitations.
Miljan Otašević explained the importance of Braille alphabet for persons with visual impairment.
The importance of regular exercise for persons with RA is however a strong reason why this question should still be included in the MDHAQ [ 40].
