Effects of a dog activity tracker on owners' walking: a community-based randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

A promising strategy to increase population physical activity is through promotion of dog walking. Informed by multi-process action control and nascent dog-walking theory, we examined the effectiveness of a 3-month technology-based (dog tracker) 2-arm randomised controlled dog-walking intervention to increase dog-owner daily physical activity in the general community in Sydney, Australia.

Results

37 participants were allocated to the intervention group (mean age = 43.2 [SD 11.9]) and 40 to the control group (mean age = 42.3 [SD 11.9]). Both groups averaged more than 10,500 steps/day at baseline. There was no evidence of within- or between-group physical activity differences across timepoints. The results remained consistent after exclusion of participants who had d

SUBMITTER: Ahmadi MN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11566059 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature