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Movement Foundations. The perceived impact of a digital rehabilitation tool for returning to fitness following a period of illness, including COVID-19 infection: a qualitative study

Digital interventions can increase physical activity (PA) levels in adults. However, the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the complexities faced when guiding people to start or return to PA following illness or inactivity. A digital tool, Movement Foundations, was developed to provide remote guidance o...

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Autores principales: Salman, David, Le Feuvre, Peter, Hill, Oliver, Conway, Dean, Taylor, Simon, Turner, Shruti, Korgaonkar, Jonathan, Hettiaratchy, Shehan, McGregor, Alison H
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10083518/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37063170
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjsem-2023-001557
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author Salman, David
Le Feuvre, Peter
Hill, Oliver
Conway, Dean
Taylor, Simon
Turner, Shruti
Korgaonkar, Jonathan
Hettiaratchy, Shehan
McGregor, Alison H
author_facet Salman, David
Le Feuvre, Peter
Hill, Oliver
Conway, Dean
Taylor, Simon
Turner, Shruti
Korgaonkar, Jonathan
Hettiaratchy, Shehan
McGregor, Alison H
author_sort Salman, David
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description Digital interventions can increase physical activity (PA) levels in adults. However, the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the complexities faced when guiding people to start or return to PA following illness or inactivity. A digital tool, Movement Foundations, was developed to provide remote guidance on building strength and capacity across functional movement patterns, with graduated progression based on user responses and input. This qualitative study aimed to explore the perceived impacts of using the tool. Nine participants aged over 35 years from the healthcare and academic healthcare sectors were recruited to use it and were subsequently interviewed. Thematic analysis identified three themes falling under the overarching concept of ‘Capability, Opportunity and Motivation—Behaviour (COM-B) Plus’, encompassing: skills and capacity for movement; opportunities, motivations and barriers for movement; and a personalised, safe space in which to develop. Participants felt that the digital tool increased their capacity and confidence in movement and positively impacted their daily activities. External factors such as illness and stress clouded perceptions of the impacts of PA. Time, work pressures and needing equipment were still considered significant barriers to PA. Still, participants appreciated the flexibility and non-prescriptive nature of the tool and felt that it helped movement to become opportunistic and habitual. Increased capacity for PA and feeling the subsequent physical and mental effects positively influenced motivation. Structure and guidance, with graduated progress, were seen as protective. Guided self-reflection helped participants understand their capacity and limitations with regard to movement and promoted motivation. Although acquiring technical skills to guide movement may be important for those recovering from illness, participants found that a structure promoting individualised guidance, graduated progression and guided self-reflection were important motivational factors for continuing use. Digital interventions should consider these aspects when seeking to promote habitual PA.
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spelling pubmed-100835182023-04-10 Movement Foundations. The perceived impact of a digital rehabilitation tool for returning to fitness following a period of illness, including COVID-19 infection: a qualitative study Salman, David Le Feuvre, Peter Hill, Oliver Conway, Dean Taylor, Simon Turner, Shruti Korgaonkar, Jonathan Hettiaratchy, Shehan McGregor, Alison H BMJ Open Sport Exerc Med Qualitative Research Digital interventions can increase physical activity (PA) levels in adults. However, the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the complexities faced when guiding people to start or return to PA following illness or inactivity. A digital tool, Movement Foundations, was developed to provide remote guidance on building strength and capacity across functional movement patterns, with graduated progression based on user responses and input. This qualitative study aimed to explore the perceived impacts of using the tool. Nine participants aged over 35 years from the healthcare and academic healthcare sectors were recruited to use it and were subsequently interviewed. Thematic analysis identified three themes falling under the overarching concept of ‘Capability, Opportunity and Motivation—Behaviour (COM-B) Plus’, encompassing: skills and capacity for movement; opportunities, motivations and barriers for movement; and a personalised, safe space in which to develop. Participants felt that the digital tool increased their capacity and confidence in movement and positively impacted their daily activities. External factors such as illness and stress clouded perceptions of the impacts of PA. Time, work pressures and needing equipment were still considered significant barriers to PA. Still, participants appreciated the flexibility and non-prescriptive nature of the tool and felt that it helped movement to become opportunistic and habitual. Increased capacity for PA and feeling the subsequent physical and mental effects positively influenced motivation. Structure and guidance, with graduated progress, were seen as protective. Guided self-reflection helped participants understand their capacity and limitations with regard to movement and promoted motivation. Although acquiring technical skills to guide movement may be important for those recovering from illness, participants found that a structure promoting individualised guidance, graduated progression and guided self-reflection were important motivational factors for continuing use. Digital interventions should consider these aspects when seeking to promote habitual PA. BMJ Publishing Group 2023-04-03 /pmc/articles/PMC10083518/ /pubmed/37063170 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjsem-2023-001557 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2023. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) .
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Salman, David
Le Feuvre, Peter
Hill, Oliver
Conway, Dean
Taylor, Simon
Turner, Shruti
Korgaonkar, Jonathan
Hettiaratchy, Shehan
McGregor, Alison H
Movement Foundations. The perceived impact of a digital rehabilitation tool for returning to fitness following a period of illness, including COVID-19 infection: a qualitative study
title Movement Foundations. The perceived impact of a digital rehabilitation tool for returning to fitness following a period of illness, including COVID-19 infection: a qualitative study
title_full Movement Foundations. The perceived impact of a digital rehabilitation tool for returning to fitness following a period of illness, including COVID-19 infection: a qualitative study
title_fullStr Movement Foundations. The perceived impact of a digital rehabilitation tool for returning to fitness following a period of illness, including COVID-19 infection: a qualitative study
title_full_unstemmed Movement Foundations. The perceived impact of a digital rehabilitation tool for returning to fitness following a period of illness, including COVID-19 infection: a qualitative study
title_short Movement Foundations. The perceived impact of a digital rehabilitation tool for returning to fitness following a period of illness, including COVID-19 infection: a qualitative study
title_sort movement foundations. the perceived impact of a digital rehabilitation tool for returning to fitness following a period of illness, including covid-19 infection: a qualitative study
topic Qualitative Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10083518/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37063170
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjsem-2023-001557
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