Our inability to randomize patients to conditions serves as a limiting factor, with results perhaps applying only to those particularly motivated to commit to an extended training period for mindfulness.
Yet it may also be an artefact, since we can assume that only those patients particularly motivated to take part in the study answered the 6-month follow-up, thereby providing fewer missing values at that point in time.
Some younger people, particularly those who appeared motivated to lose weight, felt 'Obese' could encourage weight loss, but it was also clear the term could provoke negative emotions if used insensitively.
Instead, the judges wrote, with what sounded like dismay, the government had "taken the position that the President's decisions about immigration policy, particularly when motivated by national-security concerns, are unreviewable, even if those actions potentially contravene constitutional rights and protections".
It is possible that physicians who attend CME on certain topics may be particularly interested and motivated in those areas.
Although we interviewed a large sample of 50 internists, with various levels of experience and working in different specialties and hospitals, due to a low response rate our participants may have been those who were particularly motivated for learning.
To design preventive and therapeutic interventions, it is important to know whether men will adhere to these nutritional recommendations, particularly when motivated by the diagnosis of prostate cancer.
The problem of online harassment, particularly harassment motivated by racism, sexism and homophobia, is that harassers are rarely, if ever, held accountable for their actions.
Saying that, however, does not make it clear that all restrictions must be particularly well motivated.
