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Walking
Walking Interventions: Increasing Steps (Oliveira et al., 2019)
Activity trackers can be used to support PA behaviour by promoting goal setting, enhancing motivation and self-efficacy.
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Control - no intervention, usual care, wait-list control, other PA intervention
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Increases in PA by 1558 steps/day, more than control.
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Similar effects for studies in clinical populations and older general population, somewhat better effects for general population.
Step Monitoring to Improve Arterial Health (SMARTER) (Dasgupta et al., 2014)
Physician delivered PA intervention for sedentary overweight/obese adults with hypertension/diabetes.
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Intervention
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Leading to > 3,000 steps/day increase over the period of 1 year.
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Results
At 1 year, step count 71 steps below target.
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Reduction in arterial stiffness in experimental group, but not conclusive.
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