My Steps 2 Health
13 June 2019
There are dozens, if not hundreds, of validated techniques to help change people's behavior, but nothing works for everyone. This study looks at who responds most (and least) to 3 different approaches to helping you increase your physical activity (step counts). Volunteers will complete a psychographic questionnaire after which they will download and use Motiv8’s iPhone app “Vivace” for a few minutes a day for 8 weeks. This study is completely online.
Keywords
Ethical approval
Advarra IRB protocol Pro00029713
About the researcher
Marta Marques, PhD, is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at Trinity College Dublin. She obtained her PhD in Health Psychology from Leiden University (Netherlands), in 2015. She is a chartered clinical and health psychologist. Prior to joining the EDGE program, she worked as a research Associate a world leading Centre for Behaviour Change at University College London (UK). Her main project was the Human Behaviour Change Project. Marta remains a collaborator in this project as well as an associate to the Centre. Prior to that, Marta was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Lisbon (Portugal).
Marta is a member of the European Health Psychology Society Executive Committee, and has been involved in various expert committees on digital health behaviour change (e.g. WHO B@Healthy B@Mobile for physical activity). Her research focuses on applying health behaviour change theories to develop and evaluate complex digital interventions targeting a range of health behaviours (e.g. physical activity), in the self-regulation and motivational processes underlying health behaviour change, and methods for the development of the science of behaviour change.
