The provision of sessions under this programme was agreed with the Polish healthcare centres.
The provision of sessions nearer to participant's homes and/or at weekends/evenings was cited by respondents as a way of challenging this barrier.
This cap might have no moderating effect on the many patients requiring less than nine sessions and may, in fact, encourage the provision of 18 sessions to patients who would require slightly more than nine sessions.
Provision of additional sessions was offered to patients with issues amenable to clinical hypnosis other than insomnia.
We recruited over 200 peer volunteers, primarily from flyers and newspaper advertisements, and, with the provision of flexible sessions, most of the volunteers were trained and eligible to provide support.
When described, common strategies included on-the-job or ongoing training (e.g. Moretele Sunrise Hospice) or the provision of training sessions on specific topics (e.g. Project Hope, TASO).
The difference between groups may also have been reduced by an increased use of potentially cardioprotective drugs in the control group, as well as the provision of educational sessions.
The analysis restricted to physicians showed that working in a private nursing home and the provision of training sessions or staff meetings (RR: 1.13, 95% CI: 1.0 - 1.28, p = 0.05) increased vaccination rates.
Provision of these sessions may encourage earlier adoption of heart health-promoting behavior, provide reassurance to patients and family members, enable verification of discharge instructions, ensure identification of any clinical issues, which may have arisen, such as infection, and mitigate some causes of wait time delays [ 22].
CMS's provision of 14 counseling sessions during the first six months is close to the 16 visits provided in the DPP in the first six months, at which time participants lost a mean of 7 kg.
