2.10. Blinding
RECRUITMENT, BLIND
The participants received a unique code to identify all the instruments and forms of the research, with the omission of their names. The blinding of those involved was difficult, since the application of the intervention program automatically reveals to the participants in which group, they were allocated, making masking impossible.The research team was divided into the following dedicated activities: a) recruitment, data collection at visit 1, allocation and execution of the intervention program for the IG (non-blind researchers); b) database feeding (non-blind researchers); c) data collection at visit 2 (blind researcher); d) analysis of the database (non-blind researchers).When participants entered the survey and prior to the final data collection, they were asked not to disclose to other participants or the research team which group they had been allocated to.