Wearable Activity Trackers and Smartphone Fitness Apps Promote Physical Activity Levels by Iswarya on December 22, 2020 at 11:14 AM
the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
The size of the effect is small to moderate, but it may be worth offering them on prescription to motivated patients, given the importance for health of increasing daily physical activity by any amount, say the researchers.
Globally, more than a quarter of adults don t meet recommended physical activity levels. Physical inactivity represents a leading cause of death worldwide and is thought to cost billions of dollars every year.
‘Given the wide reach of smartphones, even modest changes in physical activity can deliver large effects at the population level.’