a Department of Psychology , Stony Brook University , Stony Brook , USA.
Psychol Health Med. 2019 Aug;24(7):819-826. doi: 10.1080/13548506.2019.1576911. Epub 2019 Feb 7.
Mobile devices have become widely popular in recent years. This popularity has been accompanied by the adoption of technologies created for those devices such as mobile applications (apps), many of which have been designed to facilitate achieving health goals. This study examined health-related intentions and behaviors, and their associations with mobile health app ownership in a large, nationally representative sample. Data from the Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS) from the 2014 collection wave were analyzed. Expressing greater intentions to lose weight and to exercise was associated with owning mobile health apps. However, health app owners did not significantly differ from non-owners in their reported health behaviors in the domains of eating, exercise, and sedentary time. Although we do not know that the health apps that the app owners in this sample possessed were related to altering diet and exercise, this finding could suggest that health app owners do not use them, or that the ones available to them may be insufficient at eliciting and maintaining behaviors supporting relevant health intentions, suggesting an opportunity to leverage the capacities of mHealth technologies to produce more effective interventions delivered by apps informed by health behavior change theories.
近年来，移动设备变得非常流行。这种普及伴随着为这些设备创建的技术的采用，例如移动应用程序（apps），其中许多应用程序旨在促进实现健康目标。本研究在一个大型的、具有全国代表性的样本中检查了与健康相关的意图和行为，以及它们与移动健康应用程序所有权的关系。对来自 2014 年采集波的健康信息国家趋势调查（HINTS）的数据进行了分析。表达减肥和锻炼的意愿更强与拥有移动健康应用程序相关。然而，健康应用程序的所有者在饮食、锻炼和久坐时间等领域的报告健康行为方面与非所有者没有显著差异。尽管我们不知道该样本中健康应用程序的所有者拥有的健康应用程序与改变饮食和锻炼有关，但这一发现可能表明健康应用程序的所有者没有使用它们，或者他们可获得的应用程序可能不足以引起和维持支持相关健康意图的行为，这表明有机会利用移动健康技术的能力来产生更有效的干预措施，这些干预措施是由应用程序提供的，这些应用程序是基于健康行为改变理论。
