Active8! Technology-based intervention to promote physical activity in hospital employees
Purpose: Increase physical activity in healthcare employees using health messaging, and compare email with mobile phone short-message service (SMS) as delivery channels. Design: Randomised controlled trial Setting: UK hospital workplace Subjects: 296 employees (19-67 years, 53% of study website v...
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| author | Blake, Holly Suggs, L. Suzanne Coman, Emil Aguirre, Lucia Batt, Mark E. |
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| description | Purpose: Increase physical activity in healthcare employees using health messaging, and compare email with mobile phone short-message service (SMS) as delivery channels.
Design: Randomised controlled trial
Setting: UK hospital workplace
Subjects: 296 employees (19-67 years, 53% of study website visitors)
Intervention: 12-week messaging intervention designed to increase physical activity and delivered via SMS (n=147) or email (n=149); content tailored using Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) and limited to 160 characters.
Measures: Baseline, 6, 12 and 16 weeks. Online measures included TPB constructs; physical activity behaviour on the Global Physical Activity Questionnaire; health-related quality of life on the Short-Form 12.
Analysis: General linear models for repeated measures.
Results: Increase in duration (mean hours/day) of moderate work-related activity and moderate recreational activity from baseline to 16 weeks. Short-lived increase in frequency (days/week) of vigorous recreational activity from baseline to 6 weeks. Increase in duration and frequency of active travel from baseline to 16 weeks. Emails generated greater changes than SMS in active travel and moderate activity (work and recreational).
Conclusion: Minimal physical activity promotion delivered by SMS or email can increase frequency and duration of active travel, and duration of moderate-intensity physical activity at work and for leisure, which is maintained up to one-month after messaging ends. Both channels were useful platforms for health communication; emails were particularly beneficial with hospital employees. |
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| spelling | nottingham-428112020-05-04T18:32:09Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/42811/ Active8! Technology-based intervention to promote physical activity in hospital employees Blake, Holly Suggs, L. Suzanne Coman, Emil Aguirre, Lucia Batt, Mark E. Purpose: Increase physical activity in healthcare employees using health messaging, and compare email with mobile phone short-message service (SMS) as delivery channels. Design: Randomised controlled trial Setting: UK hospital workplace Subjects: 296 employees (19-67 years, 53% of study website visitors) Intervention: 12-week messaging intervention designed to increase physical activity and delivered via SMS (n=147) or email (n=149); content tailored using Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) and limited to 160 characters. Measures: Baseline, 6, 12 and 16 weeks. Online measures included TPB constructs; physical activity behaviour on the Global Physical Activity Questionnaire; health-related quality of life on the Short-Form 12. Analysis: General linear models for repeated measures. Results: Increase in duration (mean hours/day) of moderate work-related activity and moderate recreational activity from baseline to 16 weeks. Short-lived increase in frequency (days/week) of vigorous recreational activity from baseline to 6 weeks. Increase in duration and frequency of active travel from baseline to 16 weeks. Emails generated greater changes than SMS in active travel and moderate activity (work and recreational). Conclusion: Minimal physical activity promotion delivered by SMS or email can increase frequency and duration of active travel, and duration of moderate-intensity physical activity at work and for leisure, which is maintained up to one-month after messaging ends. Both channels were useful platforms for health communication; emails were particularly beneficial with hospital employees. SAGE Publications 2017-03-01 Article PeerReviewed Blake, Holly, Suggs, L. Suzanne, Coman, Emil, Aguirre, Lucia and Batt, Mark E. (2017) Active8! Technology-based intervention to promote physical activity in hospital employees. American Journal of Health Promotion, 31 (2). pp. 109-118. ISSN 2168-6602 Cellular phone Health communication Text messaging Electronic mail Exercise Workplace http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.4278/ajhp.140415-QUAN-143 doi:10.4278/ajhp.140415-QUAN-143 doi:10.4278/ajhp.140415-QUAN-143 |
| spellingShingle | Cellular phone Health communication Text messaging Electronic mail Exercise Workplace Blake, Holly Suggs, L. Suzanne Coman, Emil Aguirre, Lucia Batt, Mark E. Active8! Technology-based intervention to promote physical activity in hospital employees |
| title | Active8! Technology-based intervention to promote physical activity in hospital employees |
| title_full | Active8! Technology-based intervention to promote physical activity in hospital employees |
| title_fullStr | Active8! Technology-based intervention to promote physical activity in hospital employees |
| title_full_unstemmed | Active8! Technology-based intervention to promote physical activity in hospital employees |
| title_short | Active8! Technology-based intervention to promote physical activity in hospital employees |
| title_sort | active8! technology-based intervention to promote physical activity in hospital employees |
| topic | Cellular phone Health communication Text messaging Electronic mail Exercise Workplace |
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