Another potential explanation about observed association of greater expectations being related with improved outcomes is that patients with higher preintervention expectations interpreted their gains more optimistically and participated more intensely in their rehabilitation process, which in turn may affect their recovery, as suggested by some studies [ 8, 47].
"But for a priest to have participated directly and so intensely in repression and torture, that strikes hard in a society that still regards itself as essentially Roman Catholic".
The quality of life of the participating patients will intensely be observed by validated questionnaires.
"But I'd think the people who would dislike this intensely would not choose to participate in the first place!
Unfortunately, the furious discourse of know-it-all, liquored-up collegians, so intensely interesting and profound to those participating, is pretty dull when it is exposed to outsiders.
Those participating only in sports perhaps engage in physical activities more frequently and intensely than those who are involved in different types of OLTA, thus, enhancing their health-promoting effects.
And among corporate executives, even those who want to help are wary: How can the business world participate in the government's cyber initiative, they ask, if the government remains intensely secretive?
The concerns of the new "high culture" were intensely personal and, for that reason, deeply felt, even by people who did not participate in it directly.
If you participate in a sport like tennis or soccer, you'll be working your body whilst thinking intensely about the game at hand.
