Improving Adherence Physical Activity with a Smartphone Application Based on Adults with Intellectual Disabilities (APPCOID).

ABSTRACT:

Background

People with intellectual disabilities (ID) have lower levels of physical activity and quality of life and they have a lot of barriers to face when taking part in physical activity. Other problems are the poor adherence to physical activity such people have so this study is designed to improve adherence to physical activity for people with intellectual disabilities with the assistance of an application for smartphones. The aim of the study will be to improve physical activity and physical condition after multimodal intervention and to analyse the promotion of adherence to physical activity through a multimodal intervention and an app intervention (mHealth) in people with ID.

Methods

A two-stage study will be conducted. In stage 1 a multimodal intervention will take

SUBMITTER: Perez-Cruzado D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3866585 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature