Increasing Physical Activity Through a Motivational Online Intervention Using Pedometers in Sedentary Students

"The self-administered Motivational Online Intervention developed by the authors was based on the Transtheoretical Model of Change. It attempts to facilitate the decisional balance, the increase of the self-efficacy, and the use of experiential and behavioral processes of change (e.g., consciousness raising, counterconditioning, reinforcement management, stimulus control). The main objective is to deliver information to increase the motivation to practice physical activity and to set individualized goals. It has a total length of 45 minutes, and it is delivered in a web platform at the beginning of the intervention."

Wearing a pedometer of new generation that provides motivational messages from time to time to motivate the user to increase the physical activity, as well as information in the screen regarding all-day activity: steps taken, calories burned, distance travelled, floors climbed and active minutes.