Clinical Outcomes Among Working Adults Using the Health Integrator Smartphone App: Analyses of Prespecified Secondary Outcomes in a Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is a need to find new methods that can enhance the individuals' engagement in self-care and increase compliance to a healthy lifestyle for the prevention of noncommunicable diseases and improved quality of life. Mobile health (mHealth) apps could provide large-scale, cost-efficient digital solutions to implement lifestyle change, which as a corollary may enhance quality of life.

Objective

Here we evaluate if the use of a smartphone-based self-management system, the Health Integrator app, with or without telephone counseling by a health coach, had an effect on clinical variables (secondary outcomes) of importance for noncommunicable diseases.

Methods

The study was a 3-armed parallel randomized controlled trial. Participants were randomized to a control

SUBMITTER: Bonn S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8946520 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature