The Smartphone Peer Physical Activity Counseling (SPPAC) program for manual wheelchair users

Borisoff, Jaimie (Jaimie Borisoff (Jaimie_Borisoff)) (author)
Best, Krista L (author)
Routhier, François (author)
Sweet, Shane N (author)
Arbour-Nicitopoulos, Kelly P (author)
Noreau, Luc (author)
Martin Ginis, Kathleen A (author)
Eysenbach, Gunther (editor)
(translator)

Copyright ©Krista L Best, François Routhier, Shane N Sweet, Kelly P Arbour-Nicitopoulos, Jaimie F Borisoff, Luc Noreau, Kathleen A Martin Ginis.

Physical activity (PA) must be performed regularly to accrue health benefits. However, the majority of manual wheelchair users do not meet PA recommendations. Existing community-based PA programs for manual wheelchair users appear to work, but effect sizes are small and retention is low. Existing PA programs may not fully implement some psychosocial factors that are strongly linked with PA (eg, autonomy). The use of peers and mobile phone technology in the Smartphone Peer PA Counseling (SPPAC) program represents a novel approach to cultivating a PA-supportive environment for manual wheelchair users.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5425772/