Rural-Urban Differences in Physical Activity Tracking and Engagement in a Web-Based Platform.

Andrew C PickettMaria BowieAlison BergSamuel D TowneStephanie HollifieldMatthew Lee Smith

Published in: Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974) (2022)

The web-based platform was effective in helping individuals track physical activity. Despite engaging in similar amounts of physical activity by time, on average, users in nonmetropolitan areas engaged in less rigorous and more maintenance-based tasks than users in metropolitan areas. One strategy for increasing physical activity among rural populations may be to leverage social support provided by group enrollment in such programming.

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