Adherence
A personalized mHealth intervention combining a smartphone app with health coaching and goal-setting improves health-related quality of life and cardiovascular risk factors in working adults compared to a control group.
To improve your health using technology, look for programs that combine an app with human support (like a health coach) and clear weekly goals. This study tests a platform that lets you choose from various health services (gym passes, apps, bands) tailored to your specific needs (diet, sleep, stress). The key is the personalized, multi-component approach rather than just downloading a single app.
We hypothesize that the subjects assigned to active intervention will have improved health related quality of life as well as improved cardiovascular risk factors after 3 months compared to the control group, and that improvements will last another 3 months after the intervention has ended.
Why this rating
This is a study protocol for an ongoing trial; results are not yet available, so evidence is currently theoretical/preliminary.
Source
App-technology to improve lifestyle behaviors among working adults - the Health Integrator study, a randomized controlled trial
Stephanie E. Bonn et al. · BMC Public Health · 2019
DOI 10.1186/s12889-019-6595-6
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