Volunteers also participate in two Observation Shifts (each three hours long), in which they have the opportunity to see actual conversations occur between texters and a counsellor.
In order to minimize such disruptions, Miszalski prefers working 2-week-long obseveryion shifew every few months.
This organisation of the observation shifts allowed the conduct of one morning and one afternoon session at one of the three LCs on each of the 3 week days.
The hours of the observation shifts were also planned in accordance with the crossing time frames of various socio-demographic classes (e.g. construction workers, office workers, school children and pensioners) and corresponded to the typical start/finish working (school) hours.
The three observation shifts are planned on three separate days.
For the epidemiologic analysis, the unit of observation shifted from the bacterial isolate to the patient with bacteremia.
Per living room, there are three observation shifts during the entire intervention: one from the moment the participants sit in the living room to lunch, one from the start of lunch to diner, and one from the start of diner to the moment the participants have left the living room.
As they drive past the inferno, their observations shift, understandably, from the calm to the profane.
