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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.
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Caroline R. Richardson, MD
Caroline Richardson is a practicing Family Physician and an assistant professor in the University of Michigan Medical School Department of Family Medicine. She holds a joint appointment as a Research Scientist at the VA Health Services Research and Development Service in Ann Arbor, MI. She is also a Research Scientist with the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. The main focus of Dr. Richardson's research is on integrating physical activity promotion into routine medical care. She is looking at several aspects of this issue including: 1) costs and benefits of increasing physical activity promotion, 2) objective measurement of physical activity in the primary care setting, and 3) intervention evaluation. See Stepping Up to Health for more info.
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http://wocket.chcr.med.umich.edu/chcr/seminars/2009-07-16-richardson.htm
Stepping Up to Health With Online Communities v6.pdf
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