Mobile Health Fitness Interventions: Impact of Features on Routine Use and Data Sharing Acceptability
Authors' conclusion
mHealth interventions have the potential to be scaled across populations.
Study context
- Population
- Canadian adults responding to an online questionnaire on mHealth fitness applications
- Participants
- 694 survey responses
- Outcome
- Use and routine engagement (daily or weekly use) of mHealth fitness applications and attitudes about data sharing
Methodological detailsonline questionnaire, pan-Canadian, Questionnaire distributed via Prolific.co
- Online questionnaire
- pan-Canadian
- Questionnaire distributed via Prolific.co
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
- Perceived importance of personal health, current use: OR
- 2.40 (95% CI 1.34-4.50)
- Ability to track progress toward a goal, routine engagement: OR
- 5.10 (95% CI 2.73-9.61)
- Absence of goal customization features, routine engagement: OR
- 0.44 (95% CI 0.25-0.81)
- Privacy concerns, routine engagement (not significant): OR
- 0.81 (95% CI 0.40-1.77)
- Current use of an mHealth fitness application
- 48%
- Acceptance of sharing health data for research
- 56%
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Original publication
Mobile Health Fitness Interventions: Impact of Features on Routine Use and Data Sharing Acceptability. JACC Adv. Published 22 September 2023. doi:10.
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