| Autor: |
Kosuke Hayashi, Hiromitsu Imai, Ichiro Oikawa, Yugo Ishihara, Hirokazu Wakuda, Iori Miura, Shingo Uenohara, Asuka Kuwae, Megumi Kai, Ken'ichi Furuya, Naoto Uemura |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2024 |
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| Zdroj: |
JMIR Formative Research, Vol 8, p e56376 (2024) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
2561-326X |
| DOI: |
10.2196/56376 |
| Popis: |
BackgroundHigh levels of physical activity are key to improving health outcomes, yet many people fail to take action. Using pedometers to target steps per day and providing financial incentives is a simple and scalable approach to promoting public health. However, conventional pedometers do not account for “intensity” and “duration,” making it challenging to efficiently increase people’s moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA), which is expected to improve health outcomes. Based on these rationales, we developed a smartphone app that sets step cadence as a goal (defined as a daily challenge of walking more than 1500 steps in 15 minutes twice a day, which is a heuristic threshold for moderate physical activity) and provides financial incentive when the challenge is met. ObjectiveThis study aimed to evaluate the feasibility of our novel app and explore whether its use can increase users’ daily MVPA. MethodsA single-arm pre-post study evaluated the feasibility and efficacy of the app. A total of 15 participants used app 1 (an app without financial incentives) for the first period (4 weeks) and then switched to app 2 (an app with financial incentives) for the second period (4 weeks). The primary outcome was the difference between the first and second periods in the number of successful challenge attempts per week. Secondary outcomes were differences between the first and second periods in daily steps and distance walked. Exploratory outcomes included the difference between the first and second periods in daily “heart points” as measured by Google Fit, a publicly available app that measures users’ daily MVPA. ResultsThe number of successful challenge attempts per week increased significantly compared to the first period (5.6 times per week vs 0.7 times per week; P |
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