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. 2025 Aug 7;14:e64455. doi: 10.2196/64455

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?