PHYSICAL ACTIVITY INTERVENTIONS: EFFICIENCY OF DIGITAL APPLICATIONS

Abstract

Aim: The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of digital interventions in increasing the level of physical activity. Methods: Studies on the effects of digital interventions on the level of physical activity in the literature were examined in detail and then a Comprehensive Digital Intervention Model was designed. In order to examine the effects of the model, which was created in order to be more effective, a project was created with the code name More Active, More Health to obtain a healthy lifestyle habits. Volunteers were reached to participate in the project through various digital channels. Interventions were delivered to the participants through the mobile application platform called Pacer for the implementation of the experiment. Experimental group 190 and control group 192 people were compared to six-week step numbers and put into statistical tests. Results: It was observed that the interventions based on the comprehensive digital intervention model contributed to the physical activity level of the experimental group. It was also observed that the participant's follow-up on self and using the social features to the level of physical activity. There were differences in the average number of steps in terms of topics such as education level, gender and income level of the experimental group. It was observed that the measures taken with the corona epidemic caused the number of daily steps to decrease dramatically. Conclusion: It has been determined that digital interventions using this study model designed are efficient to increase the number of daily steps.