We instructed participants to decrease their MT if they had an error-rate of less than 20% and to focus on accuracy if the error rate was larger than 20%.
As a more positive incentive, the device can also instruct patients to decrease their medications if they are doing well.
If temperature increased by 4°F compared with the corresponding site on the other foot, patients were instructed to call the nurse and decrease activity until the gradient decreased to <4°F.
All patients being treated with pharmacotherapy should be instructed to gradually face their fears (exposure to decrease avoidance).
Patients are instructed to lead a disciplined life with decreasing salt intake, maintaining inter-dialytic weight gain within narrow ranges, while simultaneously keeping adequate calorie intake.
It should be noted that physicians were not specifically instructed to increase the pre-delivery phase and decrease the delivery phase.
Then, participants are presented with keywords from negative memories and are either instructed to react normally (react condition), or to use cognitive reappraisal to decrease negative emotion (reappraise condition).
Patients were instructed to consult the study team if they experienced decreased vision, eye pain, unusual redness or any new symptoms.
If a subject expresses a high level of fatigue, or a CERT level of 9 or 10, the constant level resistance will be decreased or the subject will be instructed to slow the pedaling rate.
The patients were instructed to palpate their chest wall for areas of numbness or decreased sensation to light touch.
During 6MWT the patients were instructed to walk as fast as possible for 6 min and to then decrease speed or interrupt the test if experiencing severe dyspnoea or any other discomfort.
