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Technology to Enhance Engagement in Physical Activity

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Enhancing Patient Engagement in Pulmonary Healthcare

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Patients with chronic pulmonary disease will benefit from engaging in physical activity (PA). Technology-based platforms (e.g., internet, mobile devices, smartphone apps, pedometers) are increasingly being recognized as potentially promising approaches to increase PA. This chapter reviews the role that technology can play in promoting access and adherence to PA promotion interventions. One of the pressing questions is how to effectively motivate patients to engage in and adhere to positive behavior change like increasing PA. We review theory- and evidence-based methods to encourage PA and foster patients’ knowledge, self-efficacy, outcome expectations, goals, and perceived facilitators, and reduce perceived barriers to PA. We review past research, beginning with lessons learned in healthy adults and then extrapolate these lessons to patients with chronic lung disease. This chapter also discusses the benefit of utilizing multicomponent interventions to increase patients’ adherence and chance for success. Technology offers a unique method to deliver multicomponent, efficacious interventions to encourage PA, but it is acknowledged that technological solutions are not one size fits all.

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Robinson, S.A., Troosters, T., Moy, M.L. (2020). Technology to Enhance Engagement in Physical Activity. In: Moy, M., Blackstock, F., Nici, L. (eds) Enhancing Patient Engagement in Pulmonary Healthcare. Respiratory Medicine. Humana, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44889-9_8

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