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ArticleInternational journal of health sciences

Effect of a WhatsApp walking trial on daily steps among female Saudi Arabian university students.

Juliann Saquib, Homaidan T Alhomaidan, Abdulrahman Al-Mohaimeed, Lujain Aljaghwani, Raghad Al-Mohaimeed, Darren Alghadhiyah, Raghad Altwijri, Amal Lafi Alazmi, Fatmah Ali Al-Mohaimeed, Ghadah Saleh Alhamed and 3 more

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Article in International journal of health sciences. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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3citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 42% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Juliann SaquibDepartment of Clinical Sciences, College of Medicine, Sulaiman Al Rajhi University, Al Bukayriah, Saudi Arabia.
Homaidan T AlhomaidanDepartment of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine, Qassim University, Buraidah, Saudi Arabia.
Abdulrahman Al-MohaimeedDepartment of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine, Qassim University, Buraidah, Saudi Arabia.
Lujain AljaghwaniDepartment of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine, Qassim University, Buraidah, Saudi Arabia.
Raghad Al-MohaimeedDepartment of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine, Qassim University, Buraidah, Saudi Arabia.
Darren AlghadhiyahDepartment of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine, Qassim University, Buraidah, Saudi Arabia.
Raghad AltwijriDepartment of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine, Qassim University, Buraidah, Saudi Arabia.
Amal Lafi AlazmiDepartment of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine, Qassim University, Buraidah, Saudi Arabia.
Fatmah Ali Al-MohaimeedDepartment of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine, Qassim University, Buraidah, Saudi Arabia.
Ghadah Saleh AlhamedDepartment of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine, Qassim University, Buraidah, Saudi Arabia.
Asma Abdullah AlsowiyanDepartment of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine, Qassim University, Buraidah, Saudi Arabia.
Ashwaq Mohammed AlharbiDepartment of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine, Qassim University, Buraidah, Saudi Arabia.
Nazmus SaquibDepartment of Clinical Sciences, College of Medicine, Sulaiman Al Rajhi University, Al Bukayriah, Saudi Arabia.
Qassim University · SA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Objective: Physical inactivity in Saudi women is high, even among young women (60% of university students are physically inactive). We aimed to investigate the effect of a physical activity intervention on daily walking among female students at a Saudi university. Methods: Two hundred and seven female students (mean age: 22.6 ± 1.3; body mass index: 24.6 ± 5.9) participated in a parallel-group randomized trial. The intervention group wore pedometers and received health-promotion messages for 12 weeks through WhatsApp Results: There was a significant group-by-time interaction, that is, the intervention group had a significantly higher change in daily steps compared to the control group (+576 vs. -525; F = 4.33, Conclusions: The intervention was effective at improving the number of daily steps in young women. Future studies could test this intervention among other student groups.

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Interventionphysical activityuniversity studentswalking

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PMID36891045
PMCPMC9986880
OpenAlexW4323652893

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