Caminamos: A location-based Smartphone App for Latinas to Connect with Nearby Walking Partners

Caminamos：一款基于位置的智能手机应用程序，供拉丁裔人士与附近的步行伙伴联系

• 批准号: 9788101
• 负责人: DAVID B BULLER
• 金额: $ 81.6万
• 依托单位: KLEIN BUENDEL, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-08-04 至 2022-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9788101
• 关键词: Address; Adult; Age; Area; Behavior; Car Phone; Cellular Phone; Chronic Disease; Collaborations; Communities; Data; Development; Development Plans; Diabetes Mellitus; Diagnosis; Dietary Intervention; Effectiveness; Environment; Esthetics; Exercise; Feedback; Female; Focus Groups; Geography; Goals; Habits; Health; Health Promotion; Hispanics; Individual; Influentials; Internet; Intervention; Latina; Latino; Location; Multimedia; Neighborhoods; Not Hispanic or Latino; Obesity; Outcome; Overweight; Phase; Physical activity; Physical environment; Play; Population; Positioning Attribute; Poverty; Public Health; Quality of life; Randomized; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Role; Safety; Sampling; Services; Small Business Innovation Research Grant; Small Business Technology Transfer Research; Social Environment; Social Network; Social support; Source; Surveys; System; Technology; Testing; Time; Translating; Universities; Walking; Weight maintenance regimen; Well in self; Woman; base; built environment; commercialization; comparative effectiveness; design; effectiveness trial; exercise intervention; experience; health disparity; heart disease risk; improved; innovation; interest; neighborhood safety; new technology; performance tests; preference; prototype; satisfaction; smartphone Application; social; social engagement; therapy design; usability; walking intervention

Health disparities are high among Latinas. They are more likely to be overweight, diagnosed with diabetes, and physically inactive compared to their non-Hispanic White counterparts. Thus, interventions that target improving health access and ameliorating chronic diseases among Latinas are of high public health importance. Available data suggest that community-focused interventions produce improvements in physical activity (PA) and are well-received by Latinas especially when social and physical environments are considered (e.g., social support, safe walking areas, etc.). Research suggests that Latinos respond favorably to technological-based health interventions. Thus, health promotion interventions that can address Latinos’ preferences regarding their physical and social environments while utilizing a preferred technology source (e.g., smartphone) could prove highly successful. In a Phase I SBIR, our team developed ¡Caminemos Juntas!, an innovative mobile phone app using Location-based Services (LBS) to connect women within geographically proximal neighborhoods as a way to provide social support for increased walking behaviors. Specifically, we (a) gathered feedback from an Expert Advisory Board (EAB) to help plan and assess the feasibility of creating the app; (b) built connections and gathered input from Latina community leaders to assist in the conceptual development of the app through a Community Advisory Board (CAB); (c) conducted an online survey of a national sample of Latinas on their smartphone usage for health promotion, and interest in social networking and LBS technology features; (d) conducted iterative focus groups with Latinas to guide development of app content, design, and aesthetics to fully develop a functioning prototype; (e) conducted field usability testing with Latinas to test the app’s accuracy to establish users’ location and connect users through the ¡Caminemos Juntas! system and users’ use and satisfaction with the app; and (f) developed a specifications document to outline the Phase II development plan. The results of the Phase I activities provided strong support for this Phase II SBIR application. The proposed Phase II project will (1) develop a full-scale, fully programmed ¡Caminemos Juntas! app; (2) determine whether the ¡Caminemos Juntas! app can be translated and adapted to a new community environment; (3) test the performance, usage, and usability of the full-scale, fully- programmed app; and (4) evaluate whether ¡Caminemos Juntas! increases physical activity, social support for exercise, and quality of life (QOL) in Latinas. ¡Caminemos Juntas! will be evaluated in a randomized comparative-effectiveness trial (n=200) with Latinas age 18-55 in the Denver, CO and San Jose, CA areas. Overall, the proposed project has the potential to significantly impact Latinas’ health by providing them with real-time opportunities to connect socially with the goal of walking. ¡Caminemos Juntas! will be the first app that use geo-location technology dedicated to walking with a social emphasis, for any population.

拉丁美洲人的健康差距很大。他们更有可能超重，被诊断患有糖尿病， 与非西班牙裔白色人相比，因此，针对以下目标的干预措施 改善拉丁美洲人的健康状况和改善慢性病是一项高公共卫生工作 重要性现有数据表明，以社区为重点的干预措施改善了 活动（PA），并受到拉丁美洲人的欢迎，特别是当社会和物理环境被认为是 (e.g.,社会支持、安全步行区等）。研究表明，拉丁美洲人对 基于技术的健康干预措施。因此，健康促进干预措施，可以解决拉丁美洲人的 在使用首选技术资源时， (e.g.,智能手机）可能会非常成功。在第一阶段的SBIR中，我们的团队开发了…Caminemos Juntas！， 一个创新的移动的手机应用程序，使用基于位置的服务（LBS）将地理范围内的女性联系起来 邻近社区作为一种方式，为增加步行行为提供社会支持。我们特别 (a)从专家咨询委员会（EAB）收集反馈，以帮助计划和评估创建 该应用程序;（B）建立联系，并收集来自拉丁裔社区领导人的意见，以协助概念 通过社区咨询委员会（CAB）开发应用程序;（c）对 拉丁裔的国家样本，关于他们使用智能手机促进健康，以及对社交网络的兴趣 和LBS技术功能;（d）与拉丁美洲人进行反复焦点小组讨论，以指导应用程序的开发 内容、设计和美学，以充分开发功能原型;（e）进行实地可用性测试 与Latinas一起测试应用程序的准确性，以确定用户的位置并通过Caminemos连接用户 朱塔斯系统和用户对应用程序的使用和满意度;以及（f）制定了一份规格文件， 规划第二阶段发展计划。第一阶段活动的结果对此提供了有力的支持 第二阶段SBIR应用。拟议的第二阶段项目将（1）开发一个全面的、全面规划的 我们走吧！app;（2）确定…Caminemos Juntas！APP可以翻译和改编 （3）测试性能、使用情况和可用性， 编程的应用程序;和（4）评估是否…Caminemos Juntas！增加身体活动，社会支持， 运动和生活质量（QOL）在拉丁美洲。我们走吧！将在一个随机 在科罗拉多州丹佛市和加利福尼亚州圣何塞地区对18-55岁的拉丁美洲人进行的比较有效性试验（n=200）。 总的来说，拟议的项目有可能通过为拉丁美洲人提供 实时的机会，与步行的目标进行社会联系。我们走吧！将成为第一个 使用地理定位技术，致力于为任何人群提供社会重点。