actigraphy

Very significant for POC who are trying to track heart rates. Also makes one wonder about other factors that impact accuracy. "An estimated 40 million people in the United States have smartwatches or fitness trackers that can monitor their heartbeats. But some people of color may be at risk of...

Can't actually find this paper, but the abstract has been posted at Bath and I thought it might be of interest, even though they don't really say much: https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/publications/physical-activity-patterns-among-children-and-adolescents-with-mi (Edit: Open access...

A study that is of interest because it measured activity levels with an accelerometer. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22032215 Unfortunately the authors did not investigate further to find out the "direction of these relations".

Another 'who said' post! I've got Vink's paper (2016). Even the PACE authors themselves say there was no difference between groups in lost employment, before or after the trial, and yet CBT and GET were more expensive anyway, and that may be enough. In general benefits is a terrible, terrible...

This post was copied and subsequent posts either copied or moved from this thread: David Tuller: Trial By Error: So What's Happening with the MAGENTA Trial? Re the actometers; I know others have said this but why on earth didn't they use fitbits? Crawleys always going on about how she is 'like...

A new blog post by @Lucibee, https://lucibee.wordpress.com/2018/05/09/pace-trial-whatever-happened-to-actigraphy/

http://www.lboro.ac.uk/news-events/news/2018/april/its-not-your-fitness-tracker-thats-wrong-its-you/ From the paper, http://jech.bmj.com/content/early/2018/04/09/jech-2017-209703

Personally I don't know the researchers but it's been suggested to me that at least one has previously been firmly in the BPS camp, the fact that it is published in the Journal of Psychosomatic Research is a red flag as well. But, until proven otherwise, I'm putting it in the Biomedical research...