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Employing Virtual Advisors in Preventive Care for Underserved Communities: Results From the COMPASS Study
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Electronically delivered health promotion programs that are aimed primarily at educated, health-literate individuals have proliferated, raising concerns that such trends could exacerbate health disparities in the United States and elsewhere. The efficacy of a culturally and linguistically adapted virtual advisor that provides tailored physical activity advice and support was tested in low-income older adults. Forty inactive adults (92.5% Latino) 55 years of age and older were randomized to a 4-month virtual advisor walking intervention or a waitlist control. Four-month increases in reported minutes of walking/week were greater in the virtual advisor arm (mean increase = 253.5 ± 248.7 minutes/week) relative to the control (mean increase = 26.8 ± 67.0 minutes/week; p = .0008). Walking increases in the virtual advisor arm were substantiated via objectively measured daily steps (slope analysis p = .002). All but one intervention participant continued some interaction with the virtual advisor in the 20-week poststudy period (mean number of poststudy sessions = 14.0 ± 20.5). The results indicate that a virtual advisor delivering culturally and linguistically adapted physical activity advice led to meaningful 4-month increases in walking relative to control among underserved older adults. This interactive technology, which requires minimal language and computer literacy, may help reduce health disparities by ensuring that all groups benefit from e-health opportunities.
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Metadata
- Authors
- King, A. C., Bickmore, T. W., Campero, M. I., Pruitt, L. A., & Yin, J. L.
- Affiliations
- Stanford Medicine (US)
- Northeastern University (US)
- Corresponding author
- King, Abby C.
- Venue
- Journal of Health Communication
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2013-12
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 1449-1464
- ISSN
- 1081-0730 (ISSN-L)
- 1087-0415
- PMC
- PMC7187757
- OpenAlex
- W2012861762
- Cited by
- 114
- References
- 53
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 12 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 11 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 8 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 4
- FWCI
- 13.89
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Journal of Health Communication (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Cancer Institute (R21CA127511)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Geriatrics and Gerontology › Technology Use by Older Adults
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Physical Activity and Health
- Keywords
- virtual advisors, walking intervention, physical activity promotion, older adults, Latino older adults, low-income populations, e-health, health disparities, preventive medicine, health promotion, step count, underserved populations
- MeSH terms
- Aged, Aged, 80 and over, California, Community Health Services, Culture, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Health Promotion, Hispanic or Latino, Humans, Language, Male, Medically Underserved Area, Middle Aged, Poverty, User-Computer Interface, Walking, Multilingualism, Sedentary Behavior
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