Using Commercial Physical Activity Trackers for Health Promotion Research: Four Case Studies.
assessment
exercise
intervention
mobile health
physical activity trackers
wearables
Journal
Health promotion practice
ISSN: 1524-8399
Titre abrégé: Health Promot Pract
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 100890609
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
05 2019
05 2019
Historique:
pubmed:
6
4
2018
medline:
22
4
2020
entrez:
6
4
2018
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Wearable physical activity (PA) trackers are becoming increasingly popular for intervention and assessment in health promotion research and practice. The purpose of this article is to present lessons learned from four studies that used commercial PA tracking devices for PA intervention or assessment, present issues encountered with their use, and provide guidelines for determining which tools to use. Four case studies are presented that used PA tracking devices (iBitz, Zamzee, FitBit Flex and Zip, Omron Digital Pedometer, Sensewear Armband, and MisFit Flash) in the field-two used the tools for intervention and two used the tools as assessment methods. The four studies presented had varying levels of success with using PA devices and experienced several issues that impacted their studies, such as companies that went out of business, missing data, and lost devices. Percentage ranges for devices that were lost were 0% to 29% and was 0% to 87% for those devices that malfunctioned or lost data. There is a need for low-cost, easy-to-use, accurate PA tracking devices to use as both intervention and assessment tools in health promotion research related to PA.
Sections du résumé
BACKGROUND
Wearable physical activity (PA) trackers are becoming increasingly popular for intervention and assessment in health promotion research and practice. The purpose of this article is to present lessons learned from four studies that used commercial PA tracking devices for PA intervention or assessment, present issues encountered with their use, and provide guidelines for determining which tools to use.
METHOD
Four case studies are presented that used PA tracking devices (iBitz, Zamzee, FitBit Flex and Zip, Omron Digital Pedometer, Sensewear Armband, and MisFit Flash) in the field-two used the tools for intervention and two used the tools as assessment methods.
RESULTS
The four studies presented had varying levels of success with using PA devices and experienced several issues that impacted their studies, such as companies that went out of business, missing data, and lost devices. Percentage ranges for devices that were lost were 0% to 29% and was 0% to 87% for those devices that malfunctioned or lost data.
CONCLUSIONS
There is a need for low-cost, easy-to-use, accurate PA tracking devices to use as both intervention and assessment tools in health promotion research related to PA.
Identifiants
pubmed: 29618233
doi: 10.1177/1524839918769559
pmc: PMC6854681
mid: NIHMS1058876
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
381-389Subventions
Organisme : NCI NIH HHS
ID : R21 CA187929
Pays : United States
Organisme : NIDDK NIH HHS
ID : R44 DK103377
Pays : United States
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