A study has shown that the intervention presented here was successful in maintaining the quality of care [ 31].
Most previous multiple health behavior interventions have been of longer duration (6-12 months) and greater intensity [ 29, 36, 69] than the intervention presented here.
Moreover, compared to many other intervention programs, the intervention presented here has a realistic and time efficient design to facilitate its long-term integration into school curricula.
This phenomenon has already been recognized in other areas of research and thus is not due to the specific type of intervention presented here [ 45].
To this end, a qualitative analysis of focus group discussions regarding the Mental Health Engagement Network, a web-based personal health record and smartphone intervention, is presented here.
For other studies involving the development and evaluation of new healthcare interventions, the work presented here highlights the need for in-depth exploratory work before an RCT protocol is developed [ 1].
In contrast to Zhang et al. [ 24], who compared three obese patients who underwent bariatric gastric bypass operation with three unrelated obese subjects without intervention, the approach presented here aimed at identification of intraindividual intervention-induced changes.
When we consider the overall unimpressive treatment effects presented here, it should be acknowledged that psychological interventions, like pharmacotherapy, might also have negative side effects.
MM, SG, NY, CS, TP, DR, MMH, CR, SS, WP, BB carried out the surgical interventions on the patients presented here.
