Short- and Long-term Effects of a Mobile Phone App in Conjunction With Brief In-Person Counseling on Physical Activity Among Physically Inactive Women: The mPED Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Mobile phone applications (apps) and activity trackers allow researchers to remotely deliver an intervention and monitor physical activity but have not been rigorously evaluated for longer periods.

Objective

To determine whether a mobile phone-based physical activity education app, in conjunction with brief in-person counseling, increases and then maintains levels of physical activity.

Design, setting, and participants

In this parallel randomized clinical trial, community-dwelling physically inactive women recruited between May 2011 and April 2014 were randomized in equal proportions into the control (n = 69), regular (n = 71), and plus (n = 70) groups. Data were analyzed using intention to treat from September 16, 2016, through June 30, 2018.

Interventi

SUBMITTER: Fukuoka Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6632135 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature