Designing a stakeholder-inclusive service model for an eHealth service to support older adults in an active and social life.

Background: Service model design is slowly being recognized among eHealth developers as a valuable method for creating durable implementation strategies. Nonetheless, practical guidelines and case-studies that inform the community on how to design a service model for an eHealth innovation are lacking. This study describes the development of a service model for an eHealth service, titled 'SALSA', which intends to support older adults with a physically active and socially inclusive lifestyle.

Daily physical activity of patients with the chronic fatigue syndrome: a systematic review.

Objective: To give an overview of the physical activity level of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome in comparison with asymptomatic controls.

Data Sources: MEDLINE, Web of Science, EMBASE, PsycINFO, Picarta, the Cochrane Controlled Trial Register that is included in the Cochrane Library and reference tracking.

Review Methods: A systematic literature search was conducted focusing on studies concerning physical activity levels of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome compared to controls.

The relationship between objectively and subjectively measured activity levels in people with chronic low back pain.

Objective: To compare self-report measures of daily activities with objective activity data to determine whether patients with chronic lower back pain report their activity levels as accurately as controls do.

Design: A cross-sectional study was performed in patients and controls.

Setting: The study was carried out in the daily environment of the subjects.

Daily physical activities in chronic lower back pain patients assessed with accelerometry.

Background: Normalization of activities in daily living is an important goal in rehabilitation treatment of chronic lower back pain (CLBP) patients. Clinicians indicate that CLBP patients often show deconditioning but also CLBP patients who seem to be too active are seen. The objective of the present cross-sectional study was to gain more insight into the daily activity pattern of CLBP patients compared to controls, using accelerometry.

Daily physical activities of patients with chronic pain or fatigue versus asymptomatic controls. A systematic review.

Objective: To gain an insight into the daily physical activity levels of patients with chronic pain or fatigue compared with asymptomatic controls.

Data Sources: MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycINFO, Picarta, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, reference tracking and a manual search of relevant journals.

Review Methods: A systematic, computerized database search of the medical databases up to September 2006 was performed.