Adapting to change : influence if a microprocessor-controlled prosthetic knee on gait adaptations

eHealth - In or out of our daily lives? Measuring the (non-)use of eHealth in summative evaluations

“…Older adults in the late dropout group had, on average, the highest level of external regulation (M=3. 38,SD=1.35), and older adults in the finished group had the lowest level of external regulation (M=2.24, SD=1.08). Older adults in the early drop-out group had a mean level of external regulation of 2.67 (SD=0.98).…”

On chronic cancer-related fatigue and physical behavior

“…14% compared to 15% in the current sample meets clinical guidelines, operationalized as spending 150 minutes per week on MVPA in bouts of 10 minutes or longer. However, MVPA time (6.2%) differed greatly from samples of breast cancer survivors: 1.9% [14] and 1.1% [13], and SB time (78.4% in our sample) differed from breast cancer survivors (61.3% [38], 66.3% [13], and 78.2% [14]) and from colon cancer survivors (60.7% [23] …”

“…In contrast, other researchers may choose exclusion criteria to limit confounding factors with the intervention effect to study the proof of concept. Though this decision is valid for research purposes, it consequently extends the gap between research findings and healthcare practice [38]. Therefore, we and others, e.g.…”

“…On an agreed day of the week, the therapist replies to this log, thereby guiding the patient through the program. It is hypothesized that by learning to raise awareness of the present experience non-judgmentally and openly, the patient can become aware of potentially ineffective coping strategies that prolong stress and fatigue [38,39]. Patients learn to use a detached perspective as a skill to prevent the escalation of automatic negative thinking patterns.…”

“…Plausibly, other processes, such as setting different priorities or coping with fatigue caused work ability to improve, or the selected measure of fatigue was not specific enough to capture the relation between fatigue and work ability. For instance, lack of concentration ('cognitive tiredness') is a frequently reported work-related complaint in cancer survivors [38], that is explicitly associated with cancer-related fatigue [39], but is not addressed in the CIS-fatigue severity subscale 6 .…”