TY - JOUR AU - Edney, Sarah AU - Plotnikoff, Ronald AU - Vandelanotte, Corneel AU - Olds, Tim AU - De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse AU - Ryan, Jillian AU - Maher, Carol PY - 2017 DA - 2017/11/02 TI - “Active Team” a social and gamified app-based physical activity intervention: randomised controlled trial study protocol JO - BMC Public Health SP - 859 VL - 17 IS - 1 AB - Physical inactivity is a leading preventable cause of chronic disease and premature death globally, yet over half of the adult Australian population is inactive. To address this, web-based physical activity interventions, which have the potential to reach large numbers of users at low costs, have received considerable attention. To fully realise the potential of such interventions, there is a need to further increase their appeal to boost engagement and retention, and sustain intervention effects over longer periods of time. This randomised controlled trial aims to evaluate the efficacy of a gamified physical activity intervention that connects users to each other via Facebook and is delivered via a mobile app. SN - 1471-2458 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4882-7 DO - 10.1186/s12889-017-4882-7 ID - Edney2017 ER -