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Trial reportInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021

Influence of Fitness Apps on Sports Habits, Satisfaction, and Intentions to Stay in Fitness Center Users: An Experimental Study.

Manel Valcarce-Torrente, Vicente Javaloyes, Leonor Gallardo, Jerónimo García-Fernández, Antoni Planas-Anzano

Open access · goldAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Manel Valcarce-TorrenteDepartment of Business Management, Universidad Internacional de Valencia (VIU), 46002 Valencia, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-3771-2717
Vicente JavaloyesCentro Lleida, Department of Sport Management, Instituto Nacional de Educación Física de Cataluña, 08038 Barcelona, Spain.
Leonor GallardoIGOID Research Group, Physical Activity and Sport Sciences Department, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, 45004 Toledo, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-6296-6121
Jerónimo García-FernándezResearch Group of Management and Innovation in Sports Science, Leisure and Recreation (GISDOR), Universidad de Sevilla, 41013 Seville, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-6574-9758
Antoni Planas-AnzanoCentro Lleida, Department of Sport Management, Instituto Nacional de Educación Física de Cataluña, 08038 Barcelona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-0396-0344
Institut Nacional d'Educació Física de Catalunya · ESUniversidad de Sevilla · ESUniversity of Castilla-La Mancha · ESValencian International University · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The use of technology in sports and fitness is proliferating thanks to advances to facilitate its practice and improve adherence. Beyond adherence, it is important that technology is understood as a facilitating medium. The main objective of this study is to know the influence of the use of the fitness application (app) on sports habits, customer satisfaction and maintenance intention of fitness center users. For this, an experimental, controlled and randomized study was carried out, characterized by being a field trial, with a sample of 66 participants divided into a control group (

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Fitness CentersMobile ApplicationsExerciseFemaleHabitsHumansIntentionMalePersonal Satisfactionexperimental studyfitness appfitness industryloyaltysatisfaction

Identifiers

PMID34639692
PMCPMC8507994
OpenAlexW3204816579

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