Regarding attack duration, the participants were not instructed to report the duration of "untreated attacks", partly because some individuals always use attack medication for their headaches.
To measure actual and instructed preoperative fasting durations in women undergoing scheduled cesarean birth, to compare these times with national guidelines for healthy patients undergoing elective procedures, and to describe discomforts associated with preoperative fasting.
Having sat in the darkened auditorium with their eyes closed for the duration, as instructed by Professor Stockhausen, the audience applauded reverently as the composer appeared onstage yet again to introduce another early work painstakingly created by the splicing and sticking together of endless taped interludes.
Therapists are instructed to keep the duration of sessions as constant as possible, selecting only the most relevant targets.
Importantly, the ABM percept was irrelevant to our subjects' task: they were instructed to judge the duration of the surrounding white rectangle, ignoring the apparent motion stimuli.
During this period, patients were instructed to increase the duration in the SDS unit for 20-30 minutwicetwiceachch day (with the goal of stretching 60 total minutes per day).
Participants were instructed to judge the duration of a white rectangle surrounding the body/nonbody stimuli or the uniform gray square in the flicker control condition, body/nonbody stimuli or gray squares were task irrelevant.
In all conditions, participants were instructed to use the duration of their button press to indicate their levels of confidence in their answer, with higher confidence indicated by a longer button press.
Study nurses instructed patients about the duration of the test (1 min) and to do as many repetitions as possible at a self-paced speed allowing for short breaks if needed but without using the arms for support.
Patients have to be instructed that for the duration of the study they must not take any pain relief medication other than paracetamol (which will be used as rescue medication and can be taken during the study except 48 hours before the study visits).
