The exclusion criteria for individuals with IPF and carers will be any factor that prevents communication or comprehension.
Developmental studies on animals and children have shown that inhibitory problems, rather than a lack of conceptual comprehension, can often prevent subjects from solving certain tasks (e.g., Deacon 1997; Diamond 1990).
This comprehension could help to prevent its occurrence and support the discovery of new therapeutic options.
Alternatively, it may be the case that the increased visual complexity would inhibit comprehension of the symbols – that is, the increased complexity may prevent, or override, a benefit of increased comprehensibility.
The ability to use written information is important to comprehension and understanding [ 70], as such barriers to communication arising from illiteracy and language differences may prevent a common understanding of medical procedures, thereby putting patients at risk of providing consent without comprehension [ 71].
(Mathematicians later formulated a restricted principle of abstraction, also known as the principle of comprehension, in which self-referencing predicates, or S(A), are excluded in order to prevent certain paradoxes.
To experimentally test whether using pictographs (image matrices), incremental risk formats, and varied risk denominators would influence perceptions and comprehension of side effect risks in an online decision aid about prophylactic use of tamoxifen to prevent primary breast cancers.
We must all match the sudden comprehension and bravery of the hijacked passengers aboard United Airlines Flight 93, who, realizing that their plane was going to be used as a flying weapon of mass destruction, immediately rose to challenge their captors, thus sacrificing their own lives to prevent a fourth crash that could have killed thousands more Americans.
A thorough comprehension of the joint characteristics when performing pinching tasks may have practical benefits for clinicians to educate their patients on utilizing suitable joint protection strategies while doing manipulative tasks to prevent the joint from OA interference.
Patients were excluded if they had concurrent malignancy elsewhere, or had psychological, geographical or comprehension impairment that prevented completion of the questionnaire.
