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Using Mobile Applications to Increase Physical Activity: A Systematic Review

Unhealthy diet and physical inactivity—major risk factors for the main non-communicable diseases—can be addressed by mobile health applications. Using an evidence-based systematic review design, we analysed studies on mobile applications to foster physical activity to determine whether they met the...

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Autores principales: Pradal-Cano, Laura, Lozano-Ruiz, Carolina, Pereyra-Rodríguez, José Juan, Saigí-Rubió, Francesc, Bach-Faig, Anna, Esquius, Laura, Medina, F. Xavier, Aguilar-Martínez, Alicia
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Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7664696/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33171871
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17218238
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author Pradal-Cano, Laura
Lozano-Ruiz, Carolina
Pereyra-Rodríguez, José Juan
Saigí-Rubió, Francesc
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Esquius, Laura
Medina, F. Xavier
Aguilar-Martínez, Alicia
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description Unhealthy diet and physical inactivity—major risk factors for the main non-communicable diseases—can be addressed by mobile health applications. Using an evidence-based systematic review design, we analysed studies on mobile applications to foster physical activity to determine whether they met the objective of increasing adults’ physical activity. A bibliographic search was conducted in October 2020 using PubMed, Cochrane Library Plus, Biomed Central, Psychology Database, and SpringerLink, retrieving 191 articles. After titles and abstracts were reviewed, 149 articles were excluded, leaving 42 articles for a full-text review, of which 14 met the inclusion criteria. Despite differences in study duration, design, and variables, 13 of the 14 studies reported that applications were effective in increasing physical activity and healthy habits as dietary behaviour. However, further longer-term studies with larger samples are needed to confirm the effectiveness of mobile health applications in increasing physical activity.
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spelling pubmed-76646962020-11-14 Using Mobile Applications to Increase Physical Activity: A Systematic Review Pradal-Cano, Laura Lozano-Ruiz, Carolina Pereyra-Rodríguez, José Juan Saigí-Rubió, Francesc Bach-Faig, Anna Esquius, Laura Medina, F. Xavier Aguilar-Martínez, Alicia Int J Environ Res Public Health Review Unhealthy diet and physical inactivity—major risk factors for the main non-communicable diseases—can be addressed by mobile health applications. Using an evidence-based systematic review design, we analysed studies on mobile applications to foster physical activity to determine whether they met the objective of increasing adults’ physical activity. A bibliographic search was conducted in October 2020 using PubMed, Cochrane Library Plus, Biomed Central, Psychology Database, and SpringerLink, retrieving 191 articles. After titles and abstracts were reviewed, 149 articles were excluded, leaving 42 articles for a full-text review, of which 14 met the inclusion criteria. Despite differences in study duration, design, and variables, 13 of the 14 studies reported that applications were effective in increasing physical activity and healthy habits as dietary behaviour. However, further longer-term studies with larger samples are needed to confirm the effectiveness of mobile health applications in increasing physical activity. MDPI 2020-11-07 2020-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7664696/ /pubmed/33171871 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17218238 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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