Journal article
Patterns in weight and physical activity tracking data preceding a stop in weight monitoring: Observational analysis
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Background: Self-regulation for weight loss requires regular self-monitoring of weight, but the frequency of weight tracking commonly declines over time. Objective: This study aimed to investigate whether it is a decline in weight loss or a drop in motivation to lose weight (using physical activity tracking as a proxy) that may be prompting a stop in weight monitoring. Methods: We analyzed weight and physical activity data from 1605 Withings Health Mate app users, who had set a weight loss ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- JMIR Publications Inc. Publisher's website
- Journal:
- JMIR Journal website
- Volume:
- 22
- Issue:
- 3
- Article number:
- e15790
- Place of publication:
- Canada
- Publication date:
- 2020-03-17
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-12-31
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1438-8871
- ISSN:
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1439-4456
- Pmid:
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32181749
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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1080836
- Local pid:
- pubs:1080836
- Deposit date:
- 2020-04-02
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- Copyright holder:
- Kerstin Frie, Jamie Hartmann-Boyce, Susan Jebb, Jason Oke, Paul Aveyard.
- Copyright date:
- 2020
- Rights statement:
- © Kerstin Frie, Jamie Hartmann-Boyce, Susan Jebb, Jason Oke, Paul Aveyard. Originally published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (http://www.jmir.org), 17.03.2020. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://www.jmir.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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