MobiHealth News September 17, 2020
A new analysis of published RCTs did see significant benefits among short-term and single-focus app interventions, but noted that “relatively few high-quality studies have been conducted” in this area.
Recent investigations of smartphone app-based activity interventions suggested that these approaches have a positive, but not significant, impact on individuals’ daily physical activity, according to a recent meta-analysis of published randomized controlled trials (RCTs).
Despite the limited gains, the evidence does suggest that the effect differs based on how the interventions are deployed and measured. App-based interventions examined in a short-term window had a significant positive event, for instance, and those consisting of an app alone found more success than others that incorporated dietary support.
Both of these secondary findings will...
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