Trial reportFrontiers in public health2023
Adoption, acceptability and sustained use of digital interventions to promote physical activity among inactive adults: a mixed-method study.
Trial report in Frontiers in public health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04526444 (E-health Interventions to Promote Physical Activity Among Inactive Adults), which is not on this map. Cited by 7 papers.
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E-health Interventions to Promote Physical Activity Among Inactive Adults: a Hybrid Type I Effectiveness-implementation Randomized Controlled Trial
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- A hybrid type 1 trial of a digital behaviour change intervention for frailty prevention in community-dwelling older adults aged 60 years and older.Age and ageing · 2026Trial
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- Technology-Based Interventions for Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour in Adults: A Scoping Review.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2026Review
- The past, present and future use of technology-enabled physical activity interventions in clinical and non-clinical populations: a bibliometric trend analysis across four decades.Frontiers in digital health · 2026Review
- Improving Access to Primordial and Primary Stroke Prevention: Global Considerations.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2025Review
- Online interventions to increase physical activity levels in self-reported inactive adults: the ONWARDS randomised controlled trial.BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2025Article
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Abstract
Introduction: Despite the positive effects of physical activity (PA) to prevent lifestyle diseases and improve health and well-being, only one-third of Norwegian adults meet the minimum recommendations on PA. Digital interventions to promote PA in inactive adults may improve health and well-being by being available, personalized and adequate. Knowledge on users' adoption, acceptability and sustainability of digital interventions to promote PA is still limited. Objective: To investigate the adoption, acceptability and sustained use of three digital interventions for promoting PA among inactive adults. Design: A randomized control trial (ONWARDS) with 183 participants assigned to 3 groups and followed up for 18 months. All participants received a wearable activity tracker with the personalized metric Personal Activity Intelligence (PAI) on a mobile app, two groups received additional access to online training and one group had also access to online social support. Methods: A mixed-methods approach was used to address the study objective. Acceptability was evaluated through the System Usability Scale (SUS) ( Results: PAI was the most successful intervention, with satisfactory usability and positive effects on motivation and behavior change, contributing to high adoption and sustained use. Online social support had a high acceptability and sustained use, but the intervention was not perceived as motivational to increase PA. Online training had low adoption, usability and sustained use. The qualitative interviews identified five main themes: (1) overall approach to physical activity, (2) motivation, (3) barriers to perform PA, (4) effects of PA, and (5) usability and acceptability of the digital interventions. Conclusion: Personalized digital interventions integrating behavior change techniques such as individual feedback and goal setting are more likely to increase acceptability, adoption and sustained use. Future studies should investigate which digital interventions or combinations of different interventions are more successful in promoting PA among inactive adults according to the characteristics and preferences of the users. Trial registration: Clinical trial registered at ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT04526444.
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