Increasing Physical Activity in Persons With Spinal Cord Injury With an eHealth-Based Adaptive Exercise Intervention: Protocol for a Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Participating in an adequate amount of physical activity to acquire health benefits is challenging for people with spinal cord injury (SCI) due to personal and logistic barriers. Barriers in the built and social environments may include lack of transportation, lack of accessible facilities or programs, and lack of training among fitness personnel. Low self-efficacy, lack of self-regulation skills, and improper outcome expectations are examples of personal barriers. Current approaches to investigating physical activity programs in people with SCI have been limited to traditional "one-size-fits-all" design, which has yielded low adherence rates, high dropout rates, and participants not maintaining physical activity levels at follow-up.

Objective

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SUBMITTER: Wilroy J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10415946 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature