Motivational cues as real-time feedback for changing daily activity behavior of patients with COPD.
Patient Educ Couns
; 94(3): 372-8, 2014 Mar.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-24332934
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
To investigate how COPD patients respond to motivational cues that aim to improve activity behavior and how these responses are related to cue- and context characteristics. In addition, to explore whether activity can be increased and better distributed over the day by providing such cues.METHODS:
Fifteen COPD patients participated. Patients used an activity sensor with a smartphone for four weeks, at least four days/week. Patients received motivational cues every 2h with advice on how to improve their activity, on top of real-time visual feedback. The response was calculated by the amount of activity 30 min before and after a cue.RESULTS:
In total, 1488 cues were generated. The amount of activity significantly decreased in the 30 min after a discouraging cue (p<0.001) and significantly increased (p<0.05) in the 10 min after an encouraging cue. The activity level increased with 13% in the intervention period compared to corrected baseline (p=0.008). The activity was not more balanced over the day.CONCLUSIONS:
COPD patients significantly change their activity level in response to motivational cues, based on continuous ambulatory assessment of activity levels. PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS Motivational cues could be a valuable component of telemedicine interventions that aim to improve activity behavior.Key words
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Telephone
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Cues
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Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive
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Feedback, Psychological
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Motivation
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Motor Activity
Type of study:
Clinical_trials
Limits:
Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Language:
En
Journal:
Patient Educ Couns
Year:
2014
Document type:
Article