Note: We'll be back on the 7th floor of North Ingalls Building this month: Room 7C09 NIB. All seminars are held on the 3rd Thursday of each month.

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Please join us for the next in the CHCR series of monthly seminars when Caroline R. Richardson, MD will discuss...

Impact of Adding an Online Community to an Internet Mediated Walking Program

Stepping Up to Health is an automated internet mediated walking program for people with chronic diseases including type 2 diabetes, coronary artery disease, and obesity. Each participant in the program wears an enhanced pedometer with a built in clock, memory, and a USB port to allow uploading of detailed time-stamped step-count data during the 16 week intervention period. Participants upload their step-count data to the study server from their home computer at least once a week and they have access to a personalized program web page that includes tailored motivational messages, graphs and feedback about walking progress, and automated individualized step-count goals. In this 2 arm RCT, participants all used the Stepping Up to Health intervention, but those in the intervention arm had access to online community features that allowed them to interact with other participants by reading and posting messages in online forums. We compared step-count and retention results between those who had access to the online community features and those who did not.

Thursday, July 16, 2009
12noon - 1:30pm
7C09 North Ingalls Building