To create them, Mr. Nawa painstakingly maps out where to place each sphere, studying how each reflects and distorts the textures of the deer's coat.
Either way, Picou Harrington's half-pint interventions, some small enough to fit in your hand, may alter your strolling experience when they wink at you from their perch; a piece of the personal and the imaginative in the public sphere, studied before they are worn away by the elements.
Interviews (45) were conducted in purposively selected general practices (15) which had participated in the SPHERE Study.
The SPHERE study is a cross-sectional study investigating the effects of particulate air pollution on a population of susceptible overweight/obese subjects, residing in Lombardy Region, Italy.
Participants' experiences of a complex intervention for the secondary prevention of heart disease in general practices in Ireland – the Sphere study.
Previously an intervention designed to support patients with CHD in lifestyle change and take into account known barriers to change was developed in the SPHERE Study (Table 1) and evaluated in a randomised controlled trial [ 9].
The primary questions related to what participants thought of the SPHERE Study, the information booklet they had received, their health-related beliefs, their motivations for living a healthy lifestyle and barriers to lifestyle change.
We aimed to explore patients' perceptions of factors affecting lifestyle change within a trial of this intervention (the SPHERE Study), using semi-structured, one-to-one interviews, with patients in general practice.
The current study aimed to expand current knowledge of what helps and hinders patients with CHD to make and maintain lifestyle changes, by using a mixed methods approach [ 11]: qualitative methods were used to explore the experiences of those who participated in the tailored intervention of the SPHERE Study and to help explain measurement data derived from validated questionnaires.
The SPHERE study is, at the best of our knowledge, the first study primarily designed to determine whether exposure to air particles and PM-associated metals can modify EVs (as quantity, size, membrane molecules, procoagulant activity and miRNA content) in plasma of human subjects and to investigate whether these alterations may be linked to cardiovascular risk factors and outcomes.
