A Sustainable mHealth Intervention to Promote Physical Activity for Healthy Aging : A Pilot Study of the "Every Walk You Take" Citizen Science Initiative
Naik, P. (Universitat de Barcelona)
Álamo-Junquera, Dolores (Institut Català de la Salut)
Igual, L. (Universitat de Barcelona)
Serrajordi, M. (Universitat de Barcelona)
Pérez, A. (Universitat de Barcelona)
Pericas, Carles (Institut de Recerca Sant Pau)
Pagès Fernández, Maria Constança (Universitat de Barcelona)
Katapally, T.R. (Lawson Health Research Institute)
Grau, M. (Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Fecha:	2024
Resumen:	The objective of the Every Walk You Take initiative was to co-design and test, in a pilot study, a sustainable mHealth intervention prototype (mobile app) to promote physical activity. This prototype would help to identify the barriers to and facilitators of active living in individuals older than 55 years. A prototype of the intervention was co-designed by a community of stakeholders in Barcelona who were familiar with the social and economic burden of aging in high-income societies. The app's functionalities included recommendations for healthy routes in the city (parks, pedestrian lanes, and streets) according to environmental variables (air quality and climate) and personal preferences (route difficulty, distance, and geolocation), and ecological momentary assessments (pictures and voice notes) were collected to identify the barriers to and facilitators of performing these routes. To test the app, a pilot study was conducted over two 7-day cycles with citizen scientists recruited at the life-long learning centers of two deprived neighborhoods in Barcelona. A total of 21 citizen scientists (mean age = 67 (standard deviation = 7)), 86% of them female, collected 112 comments and 48 pictures describing their perceived barriers to and facilitators of active living. Every Walk You Take is a new, validated, and sustainable mHealth intervention that is directly involved in health promotion, as it empowers the citizens of Barcelona to play an active role in their own healthcare. This intervention has the potential to be implemented in different cities around the world to collect information on the community determinants of health and health assets.
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Lengua:	Anglès
Documento:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Materia:	Active living ; Citizen science ; Healthy aging ; Physical activity ; Smart city ; Sustainability
Publicado en:	Sustainability, Vol. 16 Núm. 13 (july 2024) , p. 5338, ISSN 2071-1050

DOI: 10.3390/su16135338

12 p, 2.3 MB

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