Research
Get Moving
The Prevention programme has developed a study to assess the effects of three different low cost ways of improving physical activity and fitness. These include:
- self-monitoring diaries
- self-monitoring and feedback using wrist-worn activity monitors which download data to computers so as people can see their progress
- an interactive web-based program that aims to change people's behaviour.
We aim to recruit an occupational group of volunteers from staff at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge. At the beginning of the study we will measure physical activity. Then, after 12 weeks of one of the regimes above, we will measure physical activity again to see if it has improved. We will also try to identify factors that may have led to the changes in physical activity.
This study is a collaboration between:
- The General Practice and Primary Care Research Unit of the University of Cambridge.
- The National Institute for Health Research
