Iterative development of MobileMums: a physical activity intervention for women with young children

International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity

Research

Brianna S Fjeldsoe¹  Yvette D Miller²  Alison L Marshall³  Jasmine L O’Brien³ 

[1] School of Population Health, Cancer Prevention Research Centre, The University of Queensland, Herston, Queensland, Australia;School of Psychology, Queensland Centre for Mothers and Babies, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia;School of Public Health, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia;

关键词: Mobile phone;    Exercise;    Postnatal;    mHealth;    Text messaging;    SMS;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1479-5868-9-151

 received in 2012-03-05, accepted in 2012-12-04,  发布年份 2012

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundTo describe the iterative development process and final version of ‘MobileMums’: a physical activity intervention for women with young children (<5 years) delivered primarily via mobile telephone (mHealth) short messaging service (SMS).MethodsMobileMums development followed the five steps outlined in the mHealth development and evaluation framework: 1) conceptualization (critique of literature and theory); 2) formative research (focus groups, n= 48); 3) pre-testing (qualitative pilot of intervention components, n= 12); 4) pilot testing (pilot RCT, n= 88); and, 5) qualitative evaluation of the refined intervention (n= 6).ResultsKey findings identified throughout the development process that shaped the MobileMums program were the need for: behaviour change techniques to be grounded in Social Cognitive Theory; tailored SMS content; two-way SMS interaction; rapport between SMS sender and recipient; an automated software platform to generate and send SMS; and, flexibility in location of a face-to-face delivered component.ConclusionsThe final version of MobileMums is flexible and adaptive to individual participant’s physical activity goals, expectations and environment. MobileMums is being evaluated in a community-based randomised controlled efficacy trial (ACTRN12611000481976).

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