A Mobile Health Team Challenge to Promote Stepping and Stair Climbing Activities: Exploratory Feasibility Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mobile health (mHealth) approaches are growing in popularity as a means of addressing low levels of physical activity (PA).

Objective

This study aimed to determine the validity of wearables in measuring step count and floor count per day and assess the feasibility and effects of a 6-week team challenge intervention delivered through smartphone apps.

Methods

Staff and students from a public university were recruited between 2015 and 2016. In phase 1, everyone wore a Fitbit tracker (Charge or Charge HR) and an ActiGraph for 7 days to compare daily step count estimated by the two devices under free-living conditions. They were also asked to climb 4 bouts of floors in an indoor stairwell to measure floor count which was compared against direct observation. In p

SUBMITTER: Liew SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7055777 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature