Gotta catch'em all! Pokemon GO and physical activity among young adults: difference in differences study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

 To estimate the effect of playing Pokémon GO on the number of steps taken daily up to six weeks after installation of the game.

Design

 Cohort study using online survey data.

Participants

 Survey participants of Amazon Mechanical Turk (n=1182) residing in the United States, aged 18 to 35 years and using iPhone 6 series smartphones.

Main outcome measures

 Number of daily steps taken each of the four weeks before and six weeks after installation of Pokémon GO, automatically recorded in the "Health" application of the iPhone 6 series smartphones and reported by the participants. A difference in difference regression model was used to estimate the change in daily steps in players of Pokémon GO compared with non-players.

Results

 560 (47.4%) of the

SUBMITTER: Howe KB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5154977 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature