Authors:
Vítor P. Lopes
1
and
Carla Sá
2
Affiliations:
1
Departamento de Ciências do Desporto, Escola Superior de Educação, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal, Research Centre in Sport, Health and Human Development (CIDESD) and Portugal
;
2
Research Centre in Sport, Health and Human Development (CIDESD) and Portugal
Keyword(s):
Physical Activity Trackers, Chronic Diseases, Exercise, Tracking Monitors.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Health and Fitness
;
Health, Sports Performance and Support Technology
;
Sport Science Research and Technology
Abstract:
The pandemic of physical inactivity is associated with a range of chronic diseases and early deaths (Ding et al., 2016). Estimates from 2012 indicated that not meeting physical activity recommendations is responsible for more than 5 million deaths globally each year (Lee et al., 2012). Nowadays, sedentary behaviours are highly prevalent, and data from adults in high-income countries suggest the majority of time awake is spent being sedentary (Matthews et al., 2008).
This study aimed to investigate the use of physical activity trackers in Portugal, in particular how often people use it and how they use it to monitor exercise/physical activity.