BACKGROUND Using peer volunteers as delivery agents may improve translation of evidence-based physical activity promotion programs for older adults. This study examined whether tailored support from older peer volunteers could improve initiation and long-term maintenance of physical activity behavior. METHODS Participants were randomized to 2 16-week, group-based programs: (1) peer-delivered,...

results providing and receiving peer feedback was easy to do, without interruption in daily workflow. the system can be used among the three hospital locations of the healthcare group. it was easy to retrieve and demonstrate cases for group discussion and analysis. a side effect was that the feedback project helped to demonstrate to external stakeholder that the radiologists are eager to work o...

OBJECTIVES An ethnographic study of a peer-developed support group for persons with head injury was conducted to identify helping factors. These factors are the peer group experiences and processes, established theoretically and empirically, that provide support through self-help. METHOD The group comprised 13 members who regularly attended sessions for 16 months. In addition to participant o...

Peer-to-peer information sharing has become one of the dominant Internet applications, measured not only in the number of users, but also in the network bandwidth consumed. Thus, it is reasonable to examine the location of support functionality such as self-organisation, resource discovery, multipoint-to-multipoint group communication, forwarding, and routing, to provide the needed service to a...