Wireless physical activity monitor use among adults living with HIV in a community-based exercise intervention study: a quantitative, longitudinal, observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Our aim was to examine wireless physical activity monitor (WPAM) use and its associations with contextual factors (age, highest education level, social support and mental health) among adults living with HIV engaged in a community-based exercise (CBE) intervention.

Design

Quantitative, longitudinal, observational study.

Setting

Toronto YMCA, Ontario, Canada.

Participants

Eighty adults living with HIV who initiated the CBE intervention.

Intervention

Participants received a WPAM to track physical activity during a 25-week CBE intervention involving thrice-weekly exercise, supervised weekly (phase 1) and a 32-week follow-up involving thrice-weekly exercise with no supervision (phase 2), completed in December 2018.

Outcome measures

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SUBMITTER: Turner JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10083752 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature