Measurement properties of smartphone approaches to assess key lifestyle behaviours: protocol of a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Six core behavioural risk factors (poor diet, physical activity, sedentary behaviour, alcohol misuse, smoking and unhealthy sleep patterns) have been identified as strong determinants of chronic disease, such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancers. Smartphones have the potential to provide a real-time, pervasive, unobtrusive and cost-effective way to measure health behaviours and deliver instant feedback to users. Despite this, validity of using smartphones to measure these six key behaviours is largely unknown. The proposed systematic review aims to address this gap by identifying existing smartphone-based approaches to measure these health behaviours and critically appraising, comparing and summarizing the quality of their measurement properties.

Methods

SUBMITTER: Thornton L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7271443 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature