Content | App feature | BCT |
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Static | Setting and adjusting goals, advice on overcoming anticipated barriers, information about planning activities | Goal setting behavior (1.1) Problem solving (1.2) Action planning (1.4) |
Information on the benefits of walking, injury prevention, frequently asked questions, and tips for making walks more interesting | Instruction on how to perform the behavior (4.1) Information about health consequences (5.1) | |
Dynamic | Encouragement to set and adjust goals | Goal setting behavior (1.1) |
Self-monitoring tools including request to enter daily step count and record structured walking activities | Self-monitoring of behavior (2.3) | |
Weekly graph displaying progress towards goal | Feedback on behavior (2.2) | |
Feedback on progress on achieving step goal delivered via messages using need-supportive communication (SDT) | Discrepancy between current behavior goal (1.6) Feedback on behavior (2.2) | |
Request to set and adjust goals in light of progress | Review behavioral goals (1.5) Discrepancy between current behavior and goal (1.6) | |
Plan weekly walks (when, where, with whom) | Action planning (1.4) | |
Reminder messages linked to self-set plans using need-supportive communication (SDT) | Prompts/cues (7.1) Social reward (10.4) | |
Request to rate feelings following structured walks, mid-walk motivational messages based on need-supportive communication (SDT) | Social support (practical) (3.2) Social support (emotional) (3.3) Monitoring of emotional consequences (5.4) | |
Working with group members to achieve a team goal challenge (selected by the team). To achieve this, we pooled total step count for group members and displayed progress of mileage towards a well-known destination, based on group size and fitness level (e.g., walk from Perth to the Melbourne Cricket Ground) | Social support unspecified (3.1) Goal setting outcome (1.3) Graded tasks (8.7) |