HOLLY BLAKE holly.blake@nottingham.ac.uk
Professor of Behavioural Medicine
Active8! Technology-based intervention to promote physical activity in hospital employees
Blake, Holly; Suggs, L. Suzanne; Coman, Emil; Aguirre, Lucia; Batt, Mark E.
Authors
L. Suzanne Suggs
Emil Coman
Lucia Aguirre
Mark E. Batt
Abstract
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.
Citation
Blake, H., Suggs, L. S., Coman, E., Aguirre, L., & Batt, M. E. (2017). Active8! Technology-based intervention to promote physical activity in hospital employees. American Journal of Health Promotion, 31(2), https://doi.org/10.4278/ajhp.140415-QUAN-143
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | May 27, 2015 |
Online Publication Date | Nov 11, 2015 |
Publication Date | Mar 1, 2017 |
Deposit Date | May 12, 2017 |
Publicly Available Date | May 12, 2017 |
Journal | American Journal of Health Promotion |
Print ISSN | 0890-1171 |
Electronic ISSN | 2168-6602 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 31 |
Issue | 2 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.4278/ajhp.140415-QUAN-143 |
Keywords | Cellular phone, Health communication, Text messaging, Electronic mail, Exercise, Workplace |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/842489 |
Publisher URL | http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.4278/ajhp.140415-QUAN-143 |
Contract Date | May 12, 2017 |
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