ArticleFrontiers in public health2014
The HEART Mobile Phone Trial: The Partial Mediating Effects of Self-Efficacy on Physical Activity among Cardiac Patients.
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- Effectiveness of mHealth Interventions in the Control of Lifestyle and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Patients After a Coronary Event: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2022Pooled it
- Examining Development Processes for Text Messaging Interventions to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease: Systematic Literature Review.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2019Pooled it
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- Effects of Walking Practice in Menopausal Women Monitored Using a Mobile Application.Telemedicine reports · 2025Article
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- Examining standardized tools used for the evaluation of mobile health applications for cardiovascular disease.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Home-Based Tele-Exercise in Musculoskeletal Conditions and Chronic Disease: A Literature Review.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2022Review
- Methods Used to Evaluate mHealth Applications for Cardiovascular Disease: A Quasi-Systematic Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- [Development and Effects of Smartphone App-Based Walking Exercise Program for Taxi Drivers: Based on Bandura's Self Efficacy Theory].Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing · 2020Article
- Study protocol for a sequential multiple assignment randomized trial (SMART) to improve physical activity in employed women.Contemporary clinical trials · 2020Article
- Smartphone Cardiac Rehabilitation, Assisted Self-Management Versus Usual Care: Protocol for a Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial to Compare Effects and Costs Among People With Coronary Heart Disease.JMIR research protocols · 2020Article
- Young Adults' Short-Term Trajectories of Moderate Physical Activity: Relations With Self-Evaluation Processes.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Fit 4 surgery, a bespoke app with biofeedback delivers rehabilitation at home before and after elective lung resection.Journal of cardiothoracic surgery · 2019Article
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- mHealth Application Areas and Technology Combinations*. A Comparison of Literature from High and Low/Middle Income Countries.Methods of information in medicine · 2017Article
- Effect of a Counseling Session Bolstered by Text Messaging on Self-Selected Health Behaviors in College Students: A Preliminary Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2017Article
- Using Mobile Health (mHealth) Technology in the Management of Diabetes Mellitus, Physical Inactivity, and Smoking.Current atherosclerosis reports · 2017Review
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Abstract
backgroundThe ubiquitous use of mobile phones provides an ideal opportunity to deliver interventions to increase physical activity levels. Understanding potential mediators of such interventions is needed to increase their effectiveness. A recent randomized controlled trial of a mobile phone and Internet (mHealth) intervention was conducted in New Zealand to determine the effectiveness on exercise capacity and physical activity levels in addition to current cardiac rehabilitation (CR) services for people (n = 171) with ischemic heart disease. Significant intervention effect was observed for self-reported leisure-time physical activity and walking, but not peak oxygen uptake at 24 weeks. There was also significant improvement in self-efficacy.
objectiveTo evaluate the mediating effect of self-efficacy on physical activity levels in an mHealth delivered exercise CR program.
methodsTreatment evaluations were performed on the principle of intention to treat. Adjusted regression analyses were conducted to evaluate the main treatment effect on leisure-time physical activity and walking at 24 weeks, with and without change in self-efficacy as the mediator of interest.
resultsChange in self-efficacy at 24 weeks significantly mediated the treatment effect on leisure-time physical activity by 13%, but only partially mediated the effect on walking by 4% at 24 weeks.
conclusionAn mHealth intervention involving text messaging and Internet support had a positive treatment effect on leisure-time physical activity and walking at 24 weeks, and this effect was likely mediated through changes in self-efficacy. Future trials should examine other potential mediators related to this type of intervention.
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