Engaging users in the design of an mHealth, text message-based intervention to increase physical activity at a safety-net health care system.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Text-messaging interventions are a promising approach to increasing physical activity in vulnerable populations. To better inform the development of a text-messaging intervention, we sought to identify barriers and facilitators to using text messaging and engaging in physical activity among patients with diabetes and comorbid depression.

Materials and methods

We conducted interviews with primary care patients at a safety-net health care system (N = 26). Data were collected at 3 stages, including a focus group (stage 1), and individual interviews (stage 2 and 3). Patients in stage 1 and 2 previously participated in a text-messaging intervention as part of depression treatment. Discussions focused on participant experience of previously using a text-me

SUBMITTER: Avila-Garcia P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6994014 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature