使用商业身体活动追踪器促进健康研究：四个案例研究。
Using Commercial Physical Activity Trackers for Health Promotion Research: Four Case Studies.
作者信息
Turner-McGrievy Gabrielle, Jake-Schoffman Danielle E, Singletary Camelia, Wright Marquivieus, Crimarco Anthony, Wirth Michael D, Shivappa Nitin, Mandes Trisha, West Delia Smith, Wilcox Sara, Drenowatz Clemens, Hester Andrew, McGrievy Matthew J
机构信息
1 University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA.
3 University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA.
出版信息
Health Promot Pract. 2019 May;20(3):381-389. doi: 10.1177/1524839918769559. Epub 2018 Apr 4.
BACKGROUND
Wearable physical activity (PA) trackers are becoming increasingly popular for intervention and assessment in health promotion research and practice. The purpose of this article is to present lessons learned from four studies that used commercial PA tracking devices for PA intervention or assessment, present issues encountered with their use, and provide guidelines for determining which tools to use.
METHOD
Four case studies are presented that used PA tracking devices (iBitz, Zamzee, FitBit Flex and Zip, Omron Digital Pedometer, Sensewear Armband, and MisFit Flash) in the field-two used the tools for intervention and two used the tools as assessment methods.
RESULTS
The four studies presented had varying levels of success with using PA devices and experienced several issues that impacted their studies, such as companies that went out of business, missing data, and lost devices. Percentage ranges for devices that were lost were 0% to 29% and was 0% to 87% for those devices that malfunctioned or lost data.
CONCLUSIONS
There is a need for low-cost, easy-to-use, accurate PA tracking devices to use as both intervention and assessment tools in health promotion research related to PA.
背景
可穿戴身体活动（PA）追踪器在健康促进研究与实践的干预和评估中越来越受欢迎。本文旨在介绍四项使用商业PA追踪设备进行PA干预或评估的研究所得经验教训，阐述使用过程中遇到的问题，并提供选择使用何种工具的指导原则。
方法
介绍了四项案例研究，这些研究在实地使用了PA追踪设备（iBitz、Zamzee、FitBit Flex和Zip、欧姆龙数字计步器、Sensewear臂带以及MisFit Flash），其中两项将这些工具用于干预，两项将这些工具用作评估方法。
结果
所呈现的四项研究在使用PA设备方面取得了不同程度的成功，并遇到了一些影响其研究的问题，如公司倒闭、数据缺失和设备丢失。设备丢失的百分比范围为0%至29%，出现故障或丢失数据的设备百分比范围为0%至87%。
结论
在与PA相关的健康促进研究中，需要低成本、易于使用且准确的PA追踪设备作为干预和评估工具。
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