Activity 'Advent calendar' could help boost activity and cut sitting time bmj_latest
Intervention participants received a daily email during Advent containing a Christmas themed physical activity idea to be completed that day.
Around half of participants in both groups were asked to wear an accelerometer on their wrist 24 hours a day for the duration of the study. Some of the pilot results were that on average, the groups reported similar minutes of participation in moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity in week one and two.
On average, people in the intervention group also spent fewer sedentary per day during the intervention than did people in the control group.
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