Pernille Lunde will defend her thesis: “Feasibility and effect of long-term follow-up using a smartphone application to promote adherence to healthy behaviour post-cardiac rehabilitation” for the PhD in Health Sciences.
Trial lecture title: Measuring and monitoring physical activity - methodological considerations.
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Leader of the public defense is Associate Professor Heidi Holmen, Faculty of Health Sciences, OsloMet.
The main supervisor is Associate Professor Asta Bye, Faculty of Health Sciences, OsloMet. The co-supervisors are Professor Astrid Bergland and Associate Professor Birgitta Blakstad Nilsson, Faculty of Health Science, OsloMet.
We concluded that individualized follow-up via an app is a feasible and effective method of promoting adherence to healthy behaviour post cardiac rehabilitation (CR).
Our review also demonstrated limited research of the use of apps for lifestyle improvement in non-communicable diseases (NCDs) other than diabetes. For diabetes, the use of apps seems to improve lifestyle factors, resulting especially in decreased HbA1c.
More research in this field is needed, particularly in terms of app-based interventions that promote adherence to healthy behaviour with consideration for the complexity of the process of adherence, long-term adherence and implementation.