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What's considered an "intervention"? If your phone or watch sending you notifications to be more active counts, doesn't every activity tracker come with that fe
by dmurray 3y ago
What's considered an "intervention"? If your phone or watch sending you notifications to be more active counts, doesn't every activity tracker come with that feature? I can imagine wearing an apparently-inert bracelet that gets your activity reported back to researchers at the university would have a smaller motivational effect.
- ldes 3y agoIndeed, almost all trackers come with notifications and in the study notifications are included in the wearable-based intervention. The result of 50% larger effects in multifaceted interventions versus wearable-based interventions is from a study by Brickwood (2019). In this study, they distinguish wearable-based interventions (interventions that included tools such as regular emails, text messages, online algorithms, or smartphone apps) and multifaceted interventions (using in addition established behavioral change techniques such as group or individual counseling or information sessions, financial incentives, or telephone counseling). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6484266/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6484266/
- Manfred 3y agoAn intervention is a technical term for making a change to someone’s exercise schedule or approach.