Pre- and post-educational session assessment can be performed to assess improvement by these endeavours.
Responder, defined as a participant with 50% or more pain relief using a 100 mm VAS for pain intensity, versus non-responder (under 50% pain relief) will be assessed at eighth treatment session (assessment 9) and the two follow-up sessions (assessments 10 and 11).
8th session: Assessment and end of the intervention.
Therefore, objectivity in session assessment by the supervisors was not maintained, and individual differences in perspectives of reporting existed.
In this way, it was hoped that a post-treatment (last available session) assessment would be available for almost everyone who received treatment.
Patients will work on the progress of their indicators as follows: medical (HbA1c levels, blood sugar, arterial pressure, lipids, waist circumference, smoking, treatments); health coping and goal setting (action(s) initially decided on, actual implementation, obstacles); cognitive (review of knowledge gained through the first session assessment session and additional sessions).
Freezing is notorious for disappearing during single-session assessments, which are therefore prone to underestimating the disorder (Giladi and Nieuwboer, 2008).
For the same reasons, the treatment time devoted to the patients assigned to each of the groups (A, B and C) must be identical, as is also the case for the pre- and post-session assessments.
The EQ-5D will be administered before treatment on the first, fourth and eighth treatment sessions (assessments 2, 5 and 9) and during each of the two follow-up sessions (assessments 10 and 11).
The validated Korean version of the ODI 32 will be administered before treatment on the first, fourth and eighth treatment sessions (assessments 2, 5 and 9) and during each of the two follow-up sessions (assessments 10 and 11).
