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Using Mobile Applications to Increase Physical Activity: A Systematic Review by Laura Pradal-Cano; Carolina Lozano-Ruiz; José Juan Pereyra-Rodríguez; Francesc Saigí-Rubió; Anna Bach-Faig; Laura Esquius; F. Xavier Medina; Alicia Aguilar-Martínez is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

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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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Author

Laura Pradal-Cano; Carolina Lozano-Ruiz; José Juan Pereyra-Rodríguez; Francesc Saigí-Rubió; Anna Bach-Faig; Laura Esquius; F. Xavier Medina; Alicia Aguilar-Martínez

Publisher

MDPI AG; Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI); Basel: MDPI, 2003-; ScienceOpen (ISSN 1660-4601)

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)