Pine collaborates on the two longitudinal studies at the University of Maryland, conducting psychiatric interviews and functional M.R.I. scans on subjects at several stages.
After scouring the internet, visiting different gyms and asking around for several weeks I decided to interview elite trainer and functional strength coach Mike Swansburg.
Outcome measures are collected through self-report questionnaires, interviews, and blinded functional assessments (see Table 4 for data collection schedule).
The interaction term reflecting being a self-respondent at both interviews and baseline functional status was used as the omitted or reference category.
Other information collected during the interview included: gross cognitive and functional information, risks for falls, history of falls during the last month, agitation, wandering, aggressive behavior and body alignment problems.
The relevant information on the patient was collected during the preoperative screening and on the day of admission (e.g., interview about functional and social status, blood samples, relevant anaesthetic information, etc).
All participants were visited at their homes, where they underwent face to face interviews, blood sampling, electrocardiography, and functional tests.
This quality control system implied that all individual treatment sessions were to be videotaped, the systematic use of diagnostic and functional interviews prior to, at termination and follow-up after termination, and that an extensive battery of self-report measures were to be administered prior to treatment, during treatment, and after treatment.
Its item content was devised using patient interviews, which address pain and functional impairment in relation to their knee, in patients who are undergoing knee replacement surgery. 2 Likert responses are recommended to be scored from 0 to 4, which are summed to produce a summary score of 0 (worst) to 48 (best).
