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. 2022 Jun 8;24(6):e30817. doi: 10.2196/30817

Table 1.

Inclusion and exclusion criteria.

Items Inclusion criteria Exclusion criteria
Types of study
  • Any experimental and nonexperimental study design

  • Unpublished studies

  • Papers that were not peer reviewed

Types of participants
  • People aged ≥18 years (including older adults)

  • Studies recruiting children (aged <18 years) or participants with cognitive impairment or psychiatric disorders

Types of interventions
  • Studies that evaluated the use of mHealtha to promote PAb

  • mHealth devices could be used alone or in combination with other forms of interventions, such as physiotherapy. PA could be one part of the whole intervention, such as a behavior change program for weight

  • Studies that delivered interventions using a desktop or laptop computer

  • Studies that used mHealth purely to monitor PA rather than deliver or guide PA

Types of outcomes
  • Studies that measured any outcomes on the adherence to using mHealth to promote PA

  • No exclusion criteria

amHealth: mobile health.

bPA: physical activity.