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: 8904136
• 负责人: Valerie H Myers
• 金额: $ 20.25万
• 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 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8904136
• 关键词: Address; Adult; Age; Area; Beauty; Behavior; Cellular Phone; Chronic Disease; Collaborations; Communities; Data; Development; Diabetes Mellitus; Diagnosis; Emotional; Environment; Esthetics; Exercise; Feedback; Female; Focus Groups; Habits; Health; Health Promotion; Hispanics; Home environment; Individual; Influentials; Intervention; Latina; Latino; Life; Location; Marketing; Methods; Multimedia; Neighborhoods; Not Hispanic or Latino; Obesity; Outcome; Overweight; Personal Satisfaction; Phase; Physical activity; Physical environment; Play; Population; Positioning Attribute; Poverty; Public Health; Quality of life; Randomized; Randomized Clinical Trials; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Role; Safety; Sampling; Services; Shapes; Small Business Innovation Research Grant; Social Environment; Social Network; Social support; Source; Surveys; System; Technology; Testing; Time; Translating; Universities; Walking; Weight maintenance regimen; Woman; base; built environment; design; health disparity; heart disease risk; improved; information gathering; innovation; interest; neighborhood safety; new technology; outreach; preference; prototype; satisfaction; social; therapy design; usability

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): 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. Regular physical activity (PA) promotes physical and emotional well-being, yet PA interventions tailored for Latinas remain limited. 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. Almost 90 percent of Latinos own a cellphone; 60 percent own a smartphone. 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. One smartphone feature that offers great potential health promotion benefit is location- based services (LBS). LBS use geographic positioning to help users connect to their surrounding environment and to other users, thus providing them with real-time, user-specific information. This proposed project, ¡Caminamos!, will develop a smartphone app for use with 18-45 year old Latinas that uses LBS to connect women within geographically proximal neighborhoods as a way to provide social support for increased walking behaviors. Specific aims are: (1) gather input and evaluative feedback from an Expert Advisory Board (EAB) to help plan and assess the feasibility of creating the app; (2) build connections and gather input from Latino community leaders to assist in the conceptual development of the app through a Community Advisory Board (CAB); (3) conduct 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; (4) conduct iterative focus groups with Latinas age 18-45 years to guide development of app content, design, and aesthetics to fully develop a functioning prototype; and (5) conduct usability testing with Latinas to test the app's accuracy to establish users' location and connect users through the ¡Caminamos! system and users' use and satisfaction with the app. Few app-based health products are branded towards Latinas. ¡Caminamos! will address this unmet need in the marketplace. It will be the first smartphone app that uses location-based social networking to promote PA, and the only app of its kind targeted to Latinas. It will also expand upon what is known to be successful in Latino exercise engagement while simultaneously addressing key barriers to exercise. Phase I outcomes will provide the necessary framework and data for developing a full-scale app to be tested in a randomized clinical trial. In Phase III, we plan to market ¡Caminamos! directly to consumers in partnership with a company interested in expanding their brand outreach to a Latina population.

 描述（由申请人提供）：拉丁美洲人的健康差距很大。与非西班牙裔白色人相比，他们更有可能超重，被诊断患有糖尿病，身体不活跃。因此，以改善拉丁美洲人的健康获得和改善慢性病为目标的干预措施具有高度的公共卫生重要性。定期的身体活动（PA）促进身体和情感健康，但为拉丁美洲人量身定制的PA干预措施仍然有限。现有数据表明，以社区为中心的干预措施改善了身体活动（PA），并受到拉丁美洲人的欢迎，特别是当考虑到社会和物理环境时（例如，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反应良好。近90%的拉丁美洲人拥有手机; 60%拥有智能手机。因此，健康促进干预措施，可以解决拉丁美洲人的喜好，他们的物理和社会环境，同时利用首选的技术来源（例如，智能手机）可能会非常成功。智能手机的一个功能是基于位置的服务（LBS），它提供了巨大的潜在健康促进效益. LBS使用地理定位来帮助用户连接到他们周围的环境和其他用户，从而为他们提供实时的，用户特定的信息。这个拟议中的项目，…Caminamos！，将开发一款智能手机应用程序，供18-45岁的拉丁裔使用，该应用程序使用LBS将地理位置邻近的社区内的女性联系起来，为增加步行行为提供社会支持。具体目标是：（1）从专家咨询委员会（EAB）收集输入和评估反馈，以帮助计划和评估创建应用程序的可行性;（2）建立联系并收集拉丁美洲社区领导人的输入，以通过社区咨询委员会（CAB）协助应用程序的概念开发;（3）对全国样本的拉丁裔进行在线调查，了解他们使用智能手机促进健康的情况，以及对社交网络和LBS技术功能的兴趣;（4）与18-45岁的拉丁裔进行迭代焦点小组，以指导应用程序内容，设计和美学的开发，以充分开发功能原型;以及（5）与拉丁裔进行可用性测试，以测试应用程序的准确性，以确定用户的位置并通过Caminamos！系统和用户的使用和满意度的应用程序。很少有基于应用程序的健康产品的品牌对拉丁美洲人。来吧！将解决市场上未满足的需求。这将是第一个使用基于位置的社交网络来推广PA的智能手机应用程序，也是唯一一个针对拉丁美洲人的应用程序。它还将扩大什么是已知的是成功的拉丁美洲运动参与，同时解决运动的关键障碍。第一阶段的结果将为开发一个全面的应用程序提供必要的框架和数据，以便在随机临床试验中进行测试。在第三阶段，我们计划推出…Caminamos！与一家有意将其品牌推广到拉丁裔人群的公司合作，直接面向消费者。