One explanation for the lack of difference found is that GPs in the motivational interview group had used an average of less than two of the three motivational interview sessions allocated to them.
An interview was allocated to any job for which the women identified that they worked shifts, or for jobs likely to involve shiftwork (e.g., nurse, driver, cleaner, chef and laboratory worker).
In the first stage, in order to guarantee a nationally representative sample, the interviews are allocated across Italian provinces and towns chosen by reference to their high incidence of migrants.
Students invited to participate in the videoed interviews were allocated appointments at the communication skills suite during the first week of term and paid £3 travel expenses.
It said they had been allocated interview times for later this month after the officers failed to agree dates when contacted in December.
Availability of participants within the allocated interview time frame, which included both day and evening time slots, was a pragmatic inclusion criterion.
It was not possible to calculate sensitivity/specificity values because we could not, within the limits of the allocated interview time, assess further those children that replied negatively in order to investigate potential false negatives.
Two hundred and twenty-four out of 372 attendants demonstrated their readiness to quit within a month by face-to-face interview and were allocated into group A and group B based on their preferences.
In order to identify specific problems in terms of activity limitations due to the neck-shoulder pain and the significance of this limitation for the participant, the ILs interview each participant allocated to the T- group according to the Problem Elicitation Technique (PET) [ 58].
