Hourly step recommendations to achieve daily goals for working and older adults.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The widespread use of physical activity trackers enables the collection of high-resolution health data, such as hourly step counts, to evaluate health promotion programmes. We aim to investigate how participants meet their daily step goals.

Methods

We used 24-h steps data from the National Steps Challenge^TM Season 3, wherein participants were rewarded with vouchers when achieving specified goals of 5000, 7500, and 10,000 steps per day. We extracted data from 3075 participants' including a total of 52,346 participant-days. We modelled the hourly step counts using a two-part model, in which the distribution for step counts was allowed to depend on the sum of step counts up to the previous hour and participant demographics.

Results

Participants have

SUBMITTER: Ang G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11227519 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature