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The Use of Wearable Activity Trackers Among Older Adults: Focus Group Study of Tracker Perceptions, Motivators, and Barriers in the Maintenance Stage of Behavior Change

Insights from long-term users helped us understand the strategies that they employed to maintain activity tracker use and activity tracker features that encouraged such activity tracker use sustainability.

Anastasia Kononova, Lin Li, Kendra Kamp, Marie Bowen, R.V. Rikard, Shelia Cotten, Wei Peng

JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 2019;7(4):e9832

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Factors Influencing Exercise Engagement When Using Activity Trackers: Nonrandomized Pilot Study

In addition, those who reported knowing someone who used a tracker were also more likely to remain engaged with their activity tracker.

Amanda Jayne Centi, Mursal Atif, Sara Bersche Golas, Ramin Mohammadi, Sagar Kamarthi, Stephen Agboola, Joseph C Kvedar, Kamal Jethwani

JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 2019;7(10):e11603

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Feasibility of Using a Commercial Fitness Tracker as an Adjunct to Family-Based Weight Management Treatment: Pilot Randomized Trial

The fitness tracker houses an accelerometer that tracks physical activity and sleep.

Thao-Ly Tam Phan, Nadia Barnini, Sherlly Xie, Angelica Martinez, Lauren Falini, Atiera Abatemarco, Maura Waldron, Jane M Benton, Steve Frankenberry, Cassandra Coleman, Linhda Nguyen, Cindy Bo, George A Datto, Lloyd N Werk

JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 2018;6(11):e10523

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Parental Perspectives of a Wearable Activity Tracker for Children Younger Than 13 Years: Acceptability and Usability Study

reported that the activity tracker and associated data were easy to use and understand.

Kelly A Mackintosh, Stephanie E Chappel, Jo Salmon, Anna Timperio, Kylie Ball, Helen Brown, Susie Macfarlane, Nicola D Ridgers

JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 2019;7(11):e13858

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Why Did It Fail? Surveying Employees to Improve a Tracker-Based Corporate Wellness Initiative

Lisa Gualtieri, Danielle Bradley, Marwah Hassounah, Olivia Kahn-Boesel, Dowon Kim

iproc 2017;3(1):e41

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Consumer-Based Wearable Activity Trackers Increase Physical Activity Participation: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

To identify studies that included the use of a consumer-based wearable activity tracker, we used search terms including Activity Tracker, Wearable device, and Fitness Tracker (MeSH).

Katie-Jane Brickwood, Greig Watson, Jane O'Brien, Andrew D Williams

JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 2019;7(4):e11819

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Breast Cancer Survivors’ Experiences With an Activity Tracker Integrated Into a Supervised Exercise Program: Qualitative Study

The 3 other women wore the activity tracker on 35%, 42%, and 67% of the days, respectively. The reasons for not wearing the activity tracker were problems with charging, the tracker broke down, holiday, and flu.

Hoi San Wu, Roxanne Gal, Niek C van Sleeuwen, Aarnout C Brombacher, Wijnand A IJsselsteijn, Anne M May, Evelyn M Monninkhof

JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 2019;7(2):e10820

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Can a Free Wearable Activity Tracker Change Behavior? The Impact of Trackers on Adults in a Physician-Led Wellness Group

For the third group, which is the focus of this study, recruitment of patients included informal mentions from Family Doctors, LLC staff that patients would receive a free wearable activity tracker.

Lisa Gualtieri, Sandra Rosenbluth, Jeffrey Phillips

JMIR Res Protoc 2016;5(4):e237

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The Fitbit One Physical Activity Tracker in Men With Prostate Cancer: Validation Study

No physical activity tracker has been validated for use in cancer survivors.Whereas research-grade accelerometers (eg, the ActiGraph) are used in some cancer survivorship studies, they are costlier than consumer-based physical activity trackers and are generally

Erin L Van Blarigan, Stacey A Kenfield, Lucy Tantum, Lisa A Cadmus-Bertram, Peter R Carroll, June M Chan

JMIR Cancer 2017;3(1):e5

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Wearable Activity Trackers for Monitoring Adherence to Home Confinement During the COVID-19 Pandemic Worldwide: Data Aggregation and Analysis

We selected the nations according to a compromise between exposure to the COVID-19 pandemic, rules of lockdown, and availability of data from a large number of activity tracker users.The pre-pandemic period was used as a reference.

Jean Louis Pépin, Rosa Maria Bruno, Rui-Yi Yang, Vincent Vercamer, Paul Jouhaud, Pierre Escourrou, Pierre Boutouyrie

J Med Internet Res 2020;22(6):e19787

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