The three data collection points were: Baseline: four weeks before the intervention Four weeks after the intervention workshops (for the intervention group) were completed Six months after the first post-intervention data collection was completed Data collection for both the intervention and control arms took place during similar periods at every time point.
All surgeons agreed to wait at least 6 weeks postoperatively before intervention, but after that some preferred to do MUA before 12 weeks whereas others favored the period after.
Student data were collected at baseline (2 weeks before the intervention), 1, 3, and 6-9 months after the intervention.
Patients will be assessed by clinicians blinded to treatment allocation, at inclusion (1 3 weeks before the intervention: visit 1) and at 3 months (end of the psychoeducational program: visit 2), 6 months (visit 3), 9 months (visit 4) and 15 months (visit 5) after inclusion.
At time point -3 weeks, i.e. three weeks before the intervention started, there were no significant differences in serum COMP levels between the exercise and control group.
2. Patient is 16 70 years of age 3. Patient stopped taking anti-depressive medication or other psychiatric medications 2 weeks before the intervention started.
Students were asked to complete the assessments online two weeks before the intervention (baseline) and were sent reminder e-mails from the researcher.
The exclusion criteria included (a) ingestion of antibiotics, bismuth, or PPI within 4 weeks before our intervention; (b) a history of allergy to the medications used; (c) previous gastric surgery; (d) the coexistence of serious concomitant illness such as decompensated liver cirrhosis and uremia; and (e) pregnant or lactating women.
Two weeks before the interventions began, a survey was administered during school hours and a similar postsurvey was administered 2 weeks postintervention.
In order to collect test-retest reliability data and to test for changes associated with the intervention in the exploratory RCT, the ANT and CANTAB data were collected on three occasions: 3 weeks before to the intervention; just before the intervention (week 0, just before the intervention began) and following the 10 week intervention or control conditions (end of week 10).
