A mobile phone intervention increases physical activity in people with cardiovascular disease: Results from the HEART randomized controlled trial

Abstract

A mobile phone intervention was not effective at increasing exercise capacity over and above usual care. The intervention was effective and probably cost-effective for increasing physical activity and may have the potential to augment existing cardiac rehabilitation services.

Acceptability of a Mobile Health Exercise-Based Cardiac Rehabilitation Intervention

“…9 Web site usage statistics were calculated on all intervention participants over this period and feedback surveys were completed by intervention participants during their followup assessment at 24 weeks.…”

“…14 The HEART trial did not have a significant treatment effect on increasing exercise capacity; however, both leisure-time physical activity and walking minutes significantly increased in the intervention group at 24 weeks. 9 The intervention group also significantly improved their health-related quality of life (physical health domain) and task self-efficacy.…”

Understanding and influencing the maintenance of physical activity and dietary behaviour change in breast cancer survivors

“…Evidence supports the efficacy of mobile phone text messaging as a broad-reach intervention delivery modality for promoting initial behaviour change (Fjeldsoe et al, 2010b;Johnston et al, 2014;Maddison et al, 2014;O'Reilly et al, 2013;Prestwich et al, 2010;Spring et al, 2012), and emerging evidence supports text message-delivered extended contact to promote the maintenance of weight loss . However, there has been some scepticism regarding the suitability of text message-delivered interventions in older adults (Greaney et al, 2012).…”

“…An increasing number of text message-delivered interventions have been used to support short-term physical activity and dietary behaviour change (Fjeldsoe et al, 2010b;Johnston et al, 2014;Maddison et al, 2014;O'Reilly et al, 2013;Prestwich et al, 2010;Spring et al, 2012) and weight loss in adults (Haapala et al, 2009;Patrick et al, 2009;Shaw et al, 2012;Siopis et al, 2014). A plethora of recent systematic reviews provide further support for the short-term efficacy of text message-delivered interventions across different health behaviours among different age groups and populations (Head et al, 2013;Jones et al, 2014;Mason et al, 2014;Poorman et al, 2014;Saffari et al, 2014;Whittaker et al, 2009).…”

“…This evidence gap on reporting of maintenance outcomes is mirrored in the broader adult population literature Text messaging is a potential cost-effective and broad reach modality to deliver the extended contact interventions that are needed to promote maintenance of behaviour change. There is evidence to support the efficacy of using text messaging to deliver shortterm health behaviour change interventions Maddison et al, 2014;Spring et al, 2012;Whittaker et al, 2009), and emerging evidence to support the use of this modality to deliver extended contact interventions ). However, reviews exploring text message-delivered interventions report a focus on adolescents (Lau et al, 2011) and younger adults (Fjeldsoe et al, 2009;Spring et al, 2012).…”