The Use of Wearable Activity Trackers Among Older Adults: Focus Group Study of Tracker Perceptions, Motivators, and Barriers in the Maintenance Stage of Behavior Change.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Wearable activity trackers offer the opportunity to increase physical activity through continuous monitoring. Viewing tracker use as a beneficial health behavior, we explored the factors that facilitate and hinder long-term activity tracker use, applying the transtheoretical model of behavior change with the focus on the maintenance stage and relapse.

Objective

The aim of this study was to investigate older adults' perceptions and uses of activity trackers at different points of use: from nonuse and short-term use to long-term use and abandoned use to determine the factors to maintain tracker use and prevent users from discontinuing tracker usage.

Methods

Data for the research come from 10 focus groups. Of them, 4 focus groups included participants who had

SUBMITTER: Kononova A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6473213 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature