The use of consumer-grade physical activity monitors: Insight into psychosocial determinants and technology acceptance

IF 1.4 Q4 MEDICINE, RESEARCH & EXPERIMENTAL

Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications Pub Date : 2025-06-30 DOI:10.1016/j.conctc.2025.101516

Brenda A.J. Berendsen , Rianne H.J. Golsteijn , Lilian Lechner , Catherine Bolman , Denise A. Peels

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Abstract

Background

Consumer-grade physical activity (PA) monitors are used to optimize enrollment in clinical trials, to evaluate PA behavior, or to promote PA. Insight is needed into characteristics of people who use PA monitors and who do not, to enhance recruitment and generalizability of trials. We assessed demographics, psychosocial determinants and technology acceptance of (non-)users of PA monitors.

Methods

Dutch speaking adults were recruited via social media, email and personal contact. In an online questionnaire 533 participants (70 % women, age 43 ± 14 years) reported PA monitor use, PA and psychosocial determinants, and technology acceptance of PA monitors. Concepts were derived from the theory of planned behavior and the technology acceptance model. Primary outcome of the study was use of a consumer-grade PA monitor in the past month, analyzed with a stepwise logistic regression model, including psychosocial determinants, technology acceptance and PA and past tracking behavior.

Results

Of the participants, 40 % reported using a PA monitor in the past month. Demographics and psychosocial determinants of PA explained 12 % of PA monitor use. The odds for using a PA monitor was higher with higher feelings of autonomy (1.772; CI:1.128–2.783). Adding technology acceptance to the regression model increased the explained variance to 66 %, with significant ORs of perceived ease of use (2.403; CI:1.479–3.904), perceived usefulness (0.405; CI:0.224–0.731), attitude towards PA monitors (2.235; CI:1.222–4.087), affective quality (2.293 CI:1.252–4.201), intention to use PA monitors in the near future (4.174; CI:2.320–7.512), and subcultural appeal (0.660; CI:0.455–0.958).

Conclusions

This study confirmed the value of integrating consumer-grade PA in clinical trials, since they were used regardless of the amount of leisure time PA, motivation, age, and educational level. This indicates that trials that use people's own PA trackers to recruit and screen participants or in interventions likely includes a generalizable sample. Furthermore, the results provide concrete pointers within technology acceptance that could contribute to recruitment in trials relying on participants' own PA monitors.

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使用消费级体育活动监测器：洞察心理社会决定因素和技术接受

消费级身体活动（PA）监测仪用于优化临床试验的入组，评估PA行为，或促进PA。需要深入了解使用PA监测器和不使用PA监测器的人的特征，以加强试验的招募和推广。我们评估了（非）PA监测器用户的人口统计学、社会心理决定因素和技术接受程度。方法通过社交媒体、电子邮件和个人联系招募说荷兰语的成年人。在一份在线问卷调查中，533名参与者（70%为女性，年龄43±14岁）报告了心电监护仪的使用情况、心电监护仪和心理社会决定因素以及对心电监护仪的技术接受程度。概念来源于计划行为理论和技术接受模型。该研究的主要结果是在过去一个月使用消费级PA监测仪，用逐步逻辑回归模型进行分析，包括心理社会决定因素、技术接受程度、PA和过去跟踪行为。结果：在参与者中，40%的人报告在过去的一个月里使用过PA监测器。人口统计学和心理社会因素解释了12%的PA监测仪的使用。自主性越强，使用PA监护仪的几率越高(1.772；置信区间:1.128—-2.783)。在回归模型中加入技术接受度将解释方差增加到66%，感知易用性的or显著(2.403；CI: 1.479-3.904)，感知有用性(0.405；CI: 0.224-0.731)，对PA监测器的态度(2.235；CI: 1.222-4.087)，情感品质（2.293 CI: 1.252-4.201），近期使用PA监视器的意向(4.174；CI: 2.320-7.512)，亚文化吸引力(0.660；置信区间:0.455—-0.958)。本研究证实了在临床试验中整合消费级PA的价值，因为它们与休闲时间PA的数量、动机、年龄和教育水平无关。这表明，使用人们自己的PA追踪器来招募和筛选参与者或干预措施的试验可能包括一个可推广的样本。此外，结果在技术接受方面提供了具体的指针，这可能有助于在依靠参与者自己的PA监视器的试验中招募人员。

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Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics-Pharmacology

CiteScore

2.70

自引率

6.70%

发文量

146

审稿时长

20 weeks

期刊介绍： Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications is an international peer reviewed open access journal that publishes articles pertaining to all aspects of clinical trials, including, but not limited to, design, conduct, analysis, regulation and ethics. Manuscripts submitted should appeal to a readership drawn from a wide range of disciplines including medicine, life science, pharmaceutical science, biostatistics, epidemiology, computer science, management science, behavioral science, and bioethics. Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications is unique in that it is outside the confines of disease specifications, and it strives to increase the transparency of medical research and reduce publication bias by publishing scientifically valid original research findings irrespective of their perceived importance, significance or impact. Both randomized and non-randomized trials are within the scope of the Journal. Some common topics include trial design rationale and methods, operational methodologies and challenges, and positive and negative trial results. In addition to original research, the Journal also welcomes other types of communications including, but are not limited to, methodology reviews, perspectives and discussions. Through timely dissemination of advances in clinical trials, the goal of Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications is to serve as a platform to enhance the communication and collaboration within the global clinical trials community that ultimately advances this field of research for the benefit of patients.