A Feasibility Study for Teaching Older Kidney Transplant Recipients How to Wear and Use an Activity Tracker to Promote Daily Physical Activity.
Tara O'Brien, Tess Meyer
PMID 32083436WHAT IT FOUND
Older kidney transplant recipients successfully learned to use Fitbit trackers after a 1.5-hour teach-back session.
Ninety-eight percent wore the device daily for four weeks, with syncing issues being the primary technical challenge.
Key findings
01Nearly all participants wore the activity tracker daily for the four-week study period.
02The majority of participants reported no problems retrieving step data, though a few experienced syncing failures.
03Participants primarily used the wristband itself rather than the smartphone app to check their daily step counts.
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What it does not show
The study was a feasibility pilot with no control group, so it cannot determine if the intervention changed physical activity levels or health outcomes. The sample was predominantly white males, which may limit generalizability to other demographic groups. Participants self-reported their experiences, which may introduce bias regarding adherence and technical issues.
Declared interests
The authors reported no actual or potential conflict of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not assume that wearing the tracker increased the patients' physical activity levels or improved their health. The study only measured whether the patients could learn to use the device and whether they wore it, not whether their step counts or health outcomes changed.