1200 steps Diabetic patients skip their insulin medication 25% of the time 25,000 people a year go blind Hundreds of thousands lose limbs, every year, for something that's solvable.
1200 steps Physical Activity Over 80% of the world's adolescent population is insufficiently physically active. Insufficient PA is a key risk factor for noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer and diabetes.
1200 steps From cure to prevention Gordon Brown: ”NHS [National Health Service] of the future [being] one of patient power, with patients engaged and taking control over their own health and healthcare".
The simple acts of measuring one's target behavior and comparing it to an external standard or goal can result in lasting improvements to that behavior. Self-monitoring
stages of behavior change questionnaire understanding how different stages of ‘readiness’ impacted adoption precontemplation currently have no intention of being active contemplation not active but intend to be soon preparation trying, but not regularly active action regularly active, but for less than 6 months maintenance regularly active for 6 months or more
precontemplation 5 of 36, 14% contemplation preparation action maintenance 14 of 26, 54% 19 of 33, 58% 7 of 24, 29% 4 of 19, 21% Readiness for use: motivation and adoption
Glances sessions in which users open and close Habito with no additional actions or inputs 57%, 5 sec Review Engage 22%,12 sec 21%,45 sec sessions with at least one additional actions and last up to 22 seconds sessions with at least one additional actions and last more than 22 seconds Usage sessions
participants were more likely to initiate a new walk when seeing a low number of steps in the last hour Participants who saw they walked 10 min or less over the past hour had a 77% chance of starting a new walk in the next 5 min
Hidden costs of self-monitoring While self-monitoring led to short-term increase in steps, it also lead to a decrease in enjoyment of walking Etkin (2015)