Meihua Piao|Hyeongju Ryu|Hyeongsuk Lee|Jeongeun Kim
Use of the Healthy Lifestyle Coaching Chatbot App to Promote Stair-Climbing Habits Among Office Workers: Exploratory Randomized Controlled Trial
Seoul National University Hospital|Seoul National University|Gachon University|Seoul National University
background lack time exercise common among office workers given busy lives occupational restrictions difficulty taking time necessary suggest effective ways workers exercise regularly sustaining lifestyle habits increase nonexercise activity daily life solve issue lack exercise time healthy lifestyle coaching chatbot messenger app based habit formation model used tool provide health behavior intervention emphasizes importance sustainability involvement objective study aimed assess efficacy healthy lifestyle coaching chatbot intervention presented via messenger app aimed stairclimbing habit formation office workers methods february 1 2018 april 30 2018 total 106 people participated trial online recruitment participants randomly assigned intervention group n57 control group n49 intervention group received cues intrinsic extrinsic rewards entire 12 weeks however control group receive intrinsic rewards first 4 weeks received rewards intervention group fifth twelfth week selfreport habit index srhi participants evaluated every week level physical activity measured beginning end trial spss statistics version 21 ibm corp used statistical analysis results 4 weeks intervention without providing intrinsic rewards control group change srhi scores 1354 sd 1499 intervention group 642 sd 942 control group indicating significant difference groups p04 rewards given groups fifth twelfth week change srhi scores intervention control groups comparable 1208 sd 1087 1588 sd 1329 respectively p21 however level physical activity showed significant difference groups 12 weeks intervention p045 conclusions study provides evidence intrinsic rewards important enhance sustainability effectiveness intervention healthy lifestyle coaching chatbot program costeffective method healthy habit formation trial registration clinical research information service kct0004009 httpstinyurlcomw4oo7md