This allows for improved parallel execution of instructions, which may otherwise stall.
We could not assess whether trial staff adhered to protocol instructions, which may have impacted PRO compliance rates.
However, before we interpret these results further, we need to ensure that the effect found is not due to the study instructions, which may have biased the participants to assume ball contact.
To assess the delivery of open-label placebos; specifically the verbal instructions which may provide positive expectations and outcomes.
The delivery methods, such as verbal instructions, which may provide positive expectations and outcomes, of non-deceptive placebos will also be assessed.
We decided not to inform suppliers about the study, to avoid them starting to over perform on their usual instructions, which may vary somewhere between no instructions to basic instructions on how to operate the CCTV.
Sensory deficits (hearing problems) and altered mental status may contribute to patient-nurse communication breakdown (e.g., being unable to understand or follow nurses' instructions), which may result in hospital-acquired injury [ 27].
Exercise programs supervised by instructors enable the participants regularly to tailor the program to the instructions which may have a physiological and motivational value that the unsupervised participants do not benefit from.
There is no previous study in the Ethiopian context that has assessed students' engagement and learning experience using this instruction method, which may offer a valuable complement to other instruction methods for intensive block teaching in a resource-limited environment.
