TY - GEN
T1 - The Use of a Tablet to Increase Older Adults’ Exercise Adherence
AU - Mehra, Sumit
AU - van den Helder, Jantine
AU - Kröse, Ben J. A.
AU - Engelbert, Raoul H. H.
AU - Weijs, Peter J. M.
AU - Visser, Bart
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Sufficient physical activity can prolong the ability of older adults to live independently. Community-based exercise programs can be enhanced by regularly performing exercises at home. To support such a home-based exercise program, a blended intervention was developed that combined the use of a tablet application with a personal coach. The purpose of the current study was to explore to which extent tablet engagement predicted exercise adherence and physical activity. The results show that older adults (n = 133; M = 71 years of age) that participated 6 months in a randomized controlled trial, performed at average 12 home-based exercised per week and exercised on average 3 days per week, thereby meeting WHO guidelines. They used the tablet app on average 7 times per week. Multiple linear regressions revealed that the use of the app predicted the number of exercises that were performed and the number of exercise days. We conclude that engagement with a tablet can contribute to sustained exercise behavior.
AB - Sufficient physical activity can prolong the ability of older adults to live independently. Community-based exercise programs can be enhanced by regularly performing exercises at home. To support such a home-based exercise program, a blended intervention was developed that combined the use of a tablet application with a personal coach. The purpose of the current study was to explore to which extent tablet engagement predicted exercise adherence and physical activity. The results show that older adults (n = 133; M = 71 years of age) that participated 6 months in a randomized controlled trial, performed at average 12 home-based exercised per week and exercised on average 3 days per week, thereby meeting WHO guidelines. They used the tablet app on average 7 times per week. Multiple linear regressions revealed that the use of the app predicted the number of exercises that were performed and the number of exercise days. We conclude that engagement with a tablet can contribute to sustained exercise behavior.
KW - Behavior change
KW - Exercise
KW - Older adults
KW - Persuasive technology
KW - Physical activity
KW - Tablet
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85111998227
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UR - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36532703
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-79460-6_4
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-79460-6_4
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 36532703
SN - 9783030794590
VL - 12684 LNCS
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 47
EP - 54
BT - Persuasive Technology - 16th International Conference, PERSUASIVE 2021, Proceedings
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 16th International Conference on Persuasive Technology, PERSUASIVE 2021
Y2 - 12 April 2021 through 14 April 2021
ER -