His interest in diet, celibacy and herbal medicine was a reflection of his self-discipline, even if his obsessions verged on quackery.Rather than lingering on Gandhi's own well-studied words, Mr Guha has unearthed a wealth of previously overlooked school reports, diaries, letters and articles by collaborators and opponents of Gandhi.
Adherence was assessed by a self-report diary and a semistructured evaluation form.
A self-report diary provided the day-to-day variation in frequency and duration of PA over the intervention period.
ADHS scores were the average severity score, as assessed by the patient, across all reported diary days, weighted to account for headache days without severity report and rounded to the nearest whole number.
It would also be useful to explore convergent measures of flashback reporting to the existing self-report diary methodology (e.g. via PDA's or mobile phone SMS technology; see [54] for a review).
Where multiple types of adherence measures were available, self-reports (diary and telephone formats) provided slightly higher estimates of adherence on average compared to tablet counts (mean differences of 1.7 and 2.6 percentage points, respectively).
Previous studies in acute infection support the validity of self reported diary symptoms.
Additionally, traditional fMRI analysis relies on the self-report diary to identify the scene type.
Protocol adherence will be documented and judged by patient reporting (diary) and attendance at clinic visits according to schedule.
Data collection was accomplished through a self-administered questionnaire, a self-report diary, and two drinking water samples.
A trial specific patient self-report diary (see web appendix) was constructed and piloted, based on a prototype developed for cancer trials [23,24].
