Herein lies hope of solving the problem of participants not being appropriately informed.
Negative life events included responding 'yes' to any of the following events having occurred in the past year in participants' families: serious medical problems of the participants, suicidal/violent/criminal behavior of family members, death of extended family members, poor housing, financial problems, death in the nuclear family, theft, accident/disaster or separation from parents.
Inclusion criteria were being a health care professional providing care to people with mental problems, regardless of participants' sex, age, profession or length of work experience to cover a range of different experiences.
This enterprise, which consumed so much effort in management (grants and papers), time (about 13 years) and staff problems (number of participants and changes), has, however, successfully been completed twice before: for induction of anaesthesia and perioperative cardio-respiratory complications (Lorenz et al, 1994) and for sepsis following surgery for colorectal cancer (Bauhofer et al, 2007).
To avoid problems of fatigue, participants will have the opportunity to take breaks as necessary and refreshments as required.
The benefits of practice on the task were acknowledged, and providing extra practice to prevent slower learning due to memory problems of the participants was required.
These factors (i.e., faster responding and reduced confidence), in turn, could have independently contributed to the problems of anxious participants with solving the CRT.
The counseling methods that will be used are motivational interviewing (MI) and problem solving treatment (PST), which focus in particular on intrinsic motivation for change and self-management of problems of the participants.
31 35 On the other hand, web-based surveys have several limitations, such as sampling problems, lack of participant access to computers with internet connections and internet privacy concerns.
