User attitudes towards physical activity websites in a randomized controlled trial
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Objective To better understand the mixed findings regarding the efficacy of Internet-based physical activity interventions, we examined the use and usefulness of particular website components that may lead to improvements in intervention efficacy.Method Participants were sedentary individuals from a 12-month randomized controlled physical activity trial conducted in Providence, Rhode Island and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from 2003-2006. The present study included participants from the Tailored Internet arm (n=81; instantaneous web-based tailored feedback to participants) or the Standard Internet arm (n=82; websites currently available to the public). We obtained objective data via the intervention websites and subjective usefulness data via questionnaires.Results The Tailored Internet arm logged onto their website significantly more times than the Standard Internet arm (median 50 vs. 38; p<.05). Among participants in the Tailored Internet arm, the self-monitoring feature (i.e., logging) followed by goal setting were rated as the most useful website components.Conclusion Logins in the current study were substantially higher compared to previous studies. Participants endorsed goal setting and self-monitoring as being most useful, which are critical components for health behavior change. Future studies should continue to examine these features and improve the perceived usefulness of other theory-based strategies.
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Logins were found to be positively associated with outcome in studies targeting food and vegetable consumption, physical activity, and weight management.
“Using the previously described rating system, logins were found to be positively associated with outcome in studies targeting food and vegetable consumption [32], physical activity [33-37], and weight management [38-40].”
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Several studies categorized participants into adherent or not, or usage categories such as low, medium, and high, while others used continuous variables or a combination of these.
“Several studies categorized participants into adherent or not [49,54,57,75], or usage categories such as low, medium, and high [60], while others used continuous variables [23,24,33-36,38-41,43-45,50-52,55,56,58,59,61,76] or a combination of these [42,46,53,64-66,77].”
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- Authors
- Lewis, B., Williams, D., Dunsiger, S., Sciamanna, C., Whiteley, J., Napolitano, M., Bock, B., Jakicic, J., Getz, M., & Marcus, B.
- Affiliations
- University of Minnesota (US)
- Brown University (US)
- Pennsylvania State University (US)
- University of Massachusetts Boston (US)
- Temple University (US)
- University of Pittsburgh (US)
- Corresponding author
- Lewis, Beth
- ORCID
- Venue
- Preventive Medicine
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2008-11
- Volume
- 47
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 508-513
- ISSN
- 0091-7435 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC2614822
- OpenAlex
- W2068509827
- Cited by
- 42
- References
- 37
- Citations by year
- 2024: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 5 · 2012: 5
- FWCI
- 3.16
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Preventive Medicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (HL69866, R01HL069866)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Physical Activity and Health
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Keywords
- physical activity interventions, online intervention, personalized feedback, website usability, self-monitoring, goal setting, sedentary adults, health behavior change
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Attitude, Feedback, Female, Humans, Male, Pennsylvania, Surveys and Questionnaires, Rhode Island, Exercise, Internet, Young Adult
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