Effectiveness of a smartphone application to promote physical activity in primary care: the SMART MOVE randomised controlled trial

Glynn, Liam; Hayes, Patrick S.; Casey, Monica; Glynn, Fergus; Alvarez‐Iglesias, Alberto; Newell, John; ÓLaighin, Gearóid; Heaney, David; O’Donnell, Martin; Murphy, Andrew W.

doi:10.3399/bjgp14x680461

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“…20 Smartphone apps have the capacity to facilitate behavior change. [21][22][23][24] They have been adopted and used successfully by young adults to improve eating habits and physical activity. 25,26 Studies are ongoing to look at apps for older adults.…”

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“…32 An 8-week, open-label, randomized controlled trial in Ireland recruited 90 patients aged 16 and over who were smartphone users and evaluated the effectiveness of app usage on physical activity. 22 All participants were provided with similar physical activity goals and information on the benefits of exercise. The intervention group was provided with a smartphone app and detailed instructions on how to use it to achieve these goals.…”

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Smartphone Applications for Patients' Health and Fitness

Higgins

2016

The American Journal of Medicine

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Healthcare providers are often looking for ways to objectively monitor and improve their patients' health and fitness, especially in between patient visits. Some insurance companies are using applications data as incentives to improve health and lower premiums. As more and more people start to use smartphones, they may provide a tool to help improve a patient's health and fitness. Specifically, fitness applications or "apps" on smartphones are programs that use data collected from a smartphone's inbuilt tools, such as the Global Positioning System, accelerometer, microphone, speaker, and camera, to measure health and fitness parameters. The apps then analyze these data and summarize them, as well as devise individualized plans based on users' goals, provide frequent feedback, personalized coaching, and additional motivation by allowing milestones to be shared on social media. This article introduces evidence that apps can better help patients reach their health and fitness goals. It then discusses what features to look for in an app, followed by an overview of popular health and fitness apps. Last, patient scenarios with app recommendations, limitations of apps, and future research are discussed.

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Smartphone Applications for Patients' Health and Fitness

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2016

The American Journal of Medicine

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“…They can also provide location data and information on proximity to others, and so could potentially text ex-smokers to warn them if they are at higher risk of smoking, based on their location or proximity to other smokers [18]. Smart phones can be used to estimate mode and speed of travel and thus can be used to track exercise without requiring an additional item of equipment [19].…”

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Quality assessment of a sample of mobile app-based health behavior change interventions using a tool based on the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence behavior change guidance

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Hickey

Patel

et al. 2016

Patient Education and Counseling

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Quality assessment of health behaviour change apps using a tool developed from NICE guidance 2 AbstractObjective: To quality assess a sample of health behavior change apps from the NHS Apps Library using a rating tool based on the 2014 National Institute for Health and Care Excellence behavior change guidance (NICE BCG).Methods: A qualitative analysis of the NICE BCG identified themes and questions for a quality assessment of health behavior change apps. These were refined by further discussion and piloting, and applied by two independent raters to a sample of NHS Library apps (N=49). Disagreements were resolved following discussions with a third rater.Results: Themes identified were; purpose, planning, usability, tailoring, behavior change technique BCT), maintenance, evaluation, data security and documentation. Overall, purpose of the apps was clear, but evidence for collaboration with users or professionals was lacking. Usability information was poor and tailoring disappointing. Most used recognized BCTs but paid less attention to behavior maintenance than initiation. Information on app evaluation and documentation was sparse.Conclusions: This study furthers the work of the NHS apps library, adapting the NICE (2014) behavior change guidance for quality assessment of behavior change apps.Practice Implications: This study helps lay the foundations for development of a quality assurance tool for mobile health apps aimed at health behavior change.Quality assessment of health behaviour change apps using a tool developed from NICE guidance 3 Quality assessment of a sample of mobile app-based health behavior change interventions using a tool developed using the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence behavior change guidance.

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“…PROM using smartphone applications also has gained popularity in recent years and has been used for weight loss management 21 and to promote physical activity. 22 Although PROM is becoming popular for health monitoring in primary care, little is known about primary care patients' phone use. To the study team's knowledge, the only study on phone use among primary care patients examined cell phone use among urban African American parents recruited from pediatric primary care centers.…”

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Recruiting 9126 Primary Care Patients by Telephone: Characteristics of Participants Reached on Landlines, Basic Cell Phones, and Smartphones

Serdarevic

Fazzino

MacLean

et al. 2016

Population Health Management

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In primary care, collecting information about patient health behaviors between appointments can be advantageous. Physicians and researchers who embrace phone-based technology may find valuable ways to monitor patient-reported outcome measures of health (PROM). However, the level of phone technology sophistication should be tailored to the phone use of the population of interest. Despite the growing use of telephones as a means to gather PROM, little is known about phone use among primary care patients. As part of an ongoing study, the authors recruited primary care patients (N = 9126) for a health behavior screening study by calling them on the primary contact number listed in their medical record. The current study evaluated the frequency with which individuals were reached on landlines, basic cell phones, and smartphones, and examined participant characteristics. The majority of participants (63%) used landlines as their primary contact. Of the 37% using cell phones on the recruitment call, most (71%) were using smartphones. Landline users were significantly older than cell phone users (61.4 vs. 46.2 years; P = .001). Cell phone use did not differ significantly between participants with a college education and those without (37% vs. 38%; P = .82); however, smartphone use did differ (61% vs. 77%; P = .01). The majority of participants sampled used landlines as their primary telephone contact. Researchers designing phone-based PROM studies for primary care may have the broadest intervention reach using interactive voice response telephone technology, as patients could report health outcomes from any type of phone, including landlines. (Population Health Management 2016;19:212-215)

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Effectiveness of a smartphone application to promote physical activity in primary care: the SMART MOVE randomised controlled trial

Abstract: BackgroundPhysical inactivity is a major, potentially modifiable, risk factor for cardiovascular disease, cancer, and other chronic diseases. Effective, simple, and generalisable interventions that will increase physical activity in populations are needed.

Cited by 258 publications

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Smartphone Applications for Patients' Health and Fitness

Smartphone Applications for Patients' Health and Fitness

Quality assessment of a sample of mobile app-based health behavior change interventions using a tool based on the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence behavior change guidance

Recruiting 9126 Primary Care Patients by Telephone: Characteristics of Participants Reached on Landlines, Basic Cell Phones, and Smartphones

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