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Abstract(s)
The pandemic of physical inactivity is associated with a range of chronic diseases and early deaths (Ding et al., 2016). Estimates from 2012 indicated that not meeting physical activity recommendations is responsible for more than 5 million deaths globally each year (Lee et al., 2012). Nowadays, sedentary behaviours are highly prevalent, and data from adults in high-income countries suggest the majority of time awake is spent being sedentary (Matthews et al., 2008). This study aimed to investigate the use of physical activity trackers in Portugal, in particular how often people use it and how they use it to monitor exercise/physical activity.
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Both authors were supported by the Portuguese
Foundation for Science and Technology under Grants
DTP/04045/2013; POCI-01-0145-FEDER-006969
and UID/DTP/00617/2013; and by NORTE 2020
under Grant NanoSTIMA: Macro-to-Nano Human
Sensing: Towards Integrated Multimodal Health
Monitoring and Analytics, NORTE-01-0145-
FEDER-000016.
Keywords
Physical Activity Trackers Chronic Diseases Exercise Tracking Monitors
Citation
Lopes, Vítor P.; Sá, Carla (2018). The Use of Physical Activity Trackers in Portuguese Adolescents and Adults. In icSPORTS 2018 : 6th International Congress on Sport Sciences Research and Technology Support. Sevilha. p. 10-13
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SCITEPRESS