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Sedentary Behaviour, Physical Activity, And Mobile Apps Among University Students, Emily E. Dunn
Sedentary Behaviour, Physical Activity, And Mobile Apps Among University Students, Emily E. Dunn
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
Prolonged sedentary behaviour (SB) poses health risks independent of physical activity (PA) levels (Owen et al., 2010). University students in particular are at risk of engaging in prolonged SB due to the demands of school. Due to the pervasiveness of smartphones, and ability of mobile applications (apps) to target SB (Bond et al., 2014), apps may be used to encourage less SB in this population. Apps for PA have been coded for behaviour change techniques (BCTs) (Conroy et al., 2014; Middelweerd et al., 2014; Yang et al., 2015), however, apps for SB have yet to be assessed for BCTs.
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