Physical inactivity is the fourth leading cause of death worldwide, costing approximately $67.5 billion/year to healthcare\nsystems. To curb the physical inactivity pandemic, it is time to move beyond traditional approaches and engage citizens by\nre-purposing tools such as smartphones.
\nTo curb the physical inactivity pandemic, it is time to move beyond traditional approaches and Using smartphones to engage\ncitizens to overcome the physical inactivity pandemic
\nThe primary objective of the SMART Study (www.smartstudysask.com) was to use Avicenna to prototype and validate a mobile and\ncitizen science methodological platform for active living surveillance, knowledge translation, and policy interventions. This\nquasi-experimental investigation was designed to engage participants (i.e., citizen scientists) in Regina and Saskatoon,\nSaskatchewan, Canada, in 4 different seasons across 3 years.
\nIn Spring 2017 (1st cycle), 216 adult citizen scientists (≥18 years) were recruited in person, and online, through a combination\nof convenience sampling and self-selection. Citizen scientists installed the Avicenna application on their personal Android or\niPhone device for 8 consecutive days to provide a complex series of objective and subjective data. They answered a succession of\nvalidated surveys that were pilot-tested to assign different smartphone triggering mechanisms (e.g. user-triggered,\nscheduled-triggered) to maximize compliance. The validated surveys captured physical activity (IPAQ), sedentary behavior (Adapted\nPACE survey), motivation (PALMS), the perception of the outdoor and indoor environment (Adapted NEWS), and eudaimonic well-being\n(QEWB). Ecological momentary assessments were employed on each day to capture not only physical activity, but also physical and\nsocial contexts along with barriers and facilitators of physical activity, as relayed by citizen scientists using geo-coded\npictures and audio files. To obtain a comprehensive objective picture of participant GPS-based location data, motion-based\nactivity, and interaction with smartphone was also surveilled for 8 days.
\nInitial descriptive analyses were conducted using geo-coded photographs and audio files. Pictures and audio files (i.e., community\nvoices: https://www.smartstudysask.com/community-voices) showed that the barriers and facilitators of active living included\nintrinsic/extrinsic motivations, social contexts, and outdoor/indoor environment, with pets and favourable urban design featuring\nas the predominant facilitators, and work-related screen time proving to be the primary barrier. Future analyses will focus on\nvalidation of ecological momentary assessments and smartphone objective measures to lay the foundation for simulation modeling\nusing big data.
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