Feasibility of promoting physical activity using mHEALTH technology in rural women: the step-2-it study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Rural women are more likely to be obese and have a higher risk for chronic disease than their non-rural counterparts. Inadequate physical activity (PA) at least in part contributes to this increased risk. Rural women face personal, social and environmental barriers to PA engagement. Interventions promoting walking among rural women have demonstrated success; however, few of these studies use text messaging to promote PA.

Methods

Step-2-It was a pilot study to assess the feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness of text-messaging combined with a pedometer to promote PA, specifically walking among English-speaking women, aged 40 and older, living in a rural, northwest Illinois county. Enrolled participants completed baseline assessments, received pedometers and

SUBMITTER: Khare MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8679963 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature