Information Systems, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, 08036 Barcelona, Spain.
Faculty of Health Sciences, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), 08018 Barcelona, Spain.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Nov 7;17(21):8238. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17218238.
Unhealthy diet and physical inactivity-major risk factors for the main non-communicable diseases-can be addressed by mobile health applications. Using an evidence-based systematic review design, we analysed studies on mobile applications to foster physical activity to determine whether they met the objective of increasing adults' physical activity. A bibliographic search was conducted in October 2020 using PubMed, Cochrane Library Plus, Biomed Central, Psychology Database, and SpringerLink, retrieving 191 articles. After titles and abstracts were reviewed, 149 articles were excluded, leaving 42 articles for a full-text review, of which 14 met the inclusion criteria. Despite differences in study duration, design, and variables, 13 of the 14 studies reported that applications were effective in increasing physical activity and healthy habits as dietary behaviour. However, further longer-term studies with larger samples are needed to confirm the effectiveness of mobile health applications in increasing physical activity.
不健康的饮食和缺乏身体活动——主要的非传染性疾病风险因素——可以通过移动健康应用来解决。我们采用基于证据的系统评价设计，分析了促进身体活动的移动应用程序研究，以确定它们是否符合增加成年人身体活动的目标。我们于 2020 年 10 月使用 PubMed、Cochrane Library Plus、Biomed Central、心理学数据库和 SpringerLink 进行了文献检索，检索到 191 篇文章。在审查了标题和摘要后，排除了 149 篇文章，留下 42 篇进行全文审查，其中 14 篇符合纳入标准。尽管研究持续时间、设计和变量存在差异，但 14 项研究中的 13 项报告称，应用程序在增加身体活动和健康习惯方面，如饮食行为方面是有效的。然而，需要进行更多具有更大样本量的长期研究，以确认移动健康应用程序在增加身体活动方面的有效性。
