Adherence with physical activity monitoring wearable devices in a community-based population: observations from the Washington, D.C., Cardiovascular Health and Needs Assessment

Wearable mobile health (mHealth) technologies offer approaches for targeting physical activity (PA) in resource-limited, community-based interventions. We sought to explore user characteristics of PA tracking, wearable technology among a community-based population within a health and needs assessmen...

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Published in:Translational behavioral medicine 2017-12, Vol.7 (4), p.719-730
Main Authors: Yingling, Leah R, Mitchell, Valerie, Ayers, Colby R, Peters-Lawrence, Marlene, Wallen, Gwenyth R, Brooks, Alyssa T, Troendle, James F., Adu-Brimpong, Joel, Thomas, Samantha, Henry, JaWanna, Saygbe, Johnetta N, Sampson, Dana M, Johnson, Allan A, Graham, Avis P, Graham, Lennox A, Wiley, Kenneth L, Powell-Wiley, Tiffany
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Language:English
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Cross Cultural Psychology
Family Medicine
General Practice
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Health Psychology
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Original Research
Public Health
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Summary:Wearable mobile health (mHealth) technologies offer approaches for targeting physical activity (PA) in resource-limited, community-based interventions. We sought to explore user characteristics of PA tracking, wearable technology among a community-based population within a health and needs assessment. In 2014–2015, we conducted the Washington, D.C., Cardiovascular Health and Needs Assessment in predominantly African-American churches among communities with higher obesity rates and lower household incomes. Participants received a mHealth PA monitor and wirelessly uploaded PA data weekly to church data collection hubs. Participants ( n  = 99) were 59 ± 12 years, 79% female, and 99% African-American, with a mean body mass index of 33 ± 7 kg/m 2 . Eighty-one percent of participants uploaded PA data to the hub and were termed “PA device users.” Though PA device users were more likely to report lower household incomes, no differences existed between device users and non-users for device ownership or technology fluency. Findings suggest that mHealth systems with a wearable device and data collection hub may feasibly target PA in resource-limited communities.
ISSN:1869-6716
1613-9860
DOI:10.1007/s13142-016-0454-0