Table 1.
Details of the MOV’D (Move Often Every Day) study components.
| Study component | Delivery method | Delivery frequency | Description | Examples |
| Behavior change technique educational videos | Hyperlinked group chat message | Weekly (Sunday) in the evening | Short (4-5 minutes) videos that briefly describe a behavior change technique and how one can incorporate it into their daily life | Avoiding the “What the Hell” Effect: how to stop a slip up from becoming a dive bomb; Fix Faulty Thinking: how shifting your thoughts can help change your behavior |
| Daily reinforcement prompts | Group chat message | Daily (weekdays) in the morning | 1-2 sentences that reinforce the ideas presented in the weekly behavior change technique videos and encourage engagement in the group chat | A situation plan for this week: add something to your workplace that makes it easier to do your snacktivities. What can you ADD to make snacktivities easier? |
| Exercise snack video suggestion |
Hyperlinked group chat message | Daily (weekdays) in the morning | Short (2-5 minutes) follow-along exercise snacks video suggestions | 4 min* Jump squat & Mountain climbers, Hip Hop Movement Break |
| Group support | Twitter (cohort 1); GroupMe (cohorts 2-3) | Daily (weekdays and weekends) throughout day | Cohort-size group (10-xx) chat, with buddy pairs within; encouraged to message every day | How did things go yesterday? It was a tough go for me, but I was still able to get 3 snacktivities |
| Exercise snack breaks (behavior) |
Performed at work or at home | Participant-selected (1-5 times per day) | Weekly goal set on Sunday of how many exercise breaks they hoped to take each workday. They would utilize our videos or come up with their own exercise snacks | Walking briskly up and down the stairs for 3 minutes, YouTube video of the participant’s choosing, any of our exercise snack video suggestions |
| Behavior tracking | Text message | Daily (weekdays and weekends) in the evening | Daily autogenerated text messages prompt daily exercise snack tracking | How many snacktivities did you perform today? |