eHealth interventions are currently being used in a limited manner by children and young people with long-term physical conditions and their families. Despite some concern expressed mainly by clinicians, there is overall support from all groups for the future development of eHealth interventions to address psychological issues for this audience, particularly anxiety. Relatable content, technological appeal and ease of access/referral to such interventions are likely to improve the uptake of these relatively new interventions.

Kinematic measures of stroke patients' drawings of their brain and comments were associated with illness perceptions and not measures of physical or emotional health status. The addition of kinematic analysis may add further utility to the assessment of patients' drawings of their illness. More studies need to be performed with larger sample sizes and other patient groups.

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