Encouraging People with Spinal Cord Injury to Take Part in Physical Activity in the COVID-19 Epidemic through the mHealth ParaSportAPP.
Healthcare (Basel)
; 10(6)2022 Jun 09.
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| ID: mdl-35742120
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Although mHealth tools have great potential for health interventions, few experimental studies report on their use by people with spinal cord injuries in physical activity.OBJECTIVE:
The main objective of this study was to analyze the effect of the ParaSportAPP on different physical and psychological variables in people with paraplegia.METHODS:
Fourteen of these subjects made up the final sample. All the participants performed two pre-tests (control period) and a post-test with 8 months between the evaluations (COVID-19 broke out between pre-test 2 and the post-test). The ParaSportAPP was installed on their smartphones when they performed pre-test 2. The same tests were performed in the same order in all the evaluations (i) the questionnaires PASIPD, HADS, RS-25; SCIM III and AQoL-8D, (ii) respiratory muscle strength, (iii) spirometry and (iv) cardiopulmonary exercise test.RESULTS:
The results showed no differences in any of the variables studied between the measurement times.CONCLUSIONS:
Although none of the variables experienced improvements, the ParaSportAPP mobile application was able to lessen the impact of the pandemic on the variables studied.
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MEDLINE
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Healthcare (Basel)
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2022
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Article
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España