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Adrià Marco-Ahulló1, Lluïsa Montesinos-Magraner2, Luís-Millan González3
1Departamento de Neuropsicobiología, Metodología y Psicología Social, Universidad Católica de Valencia, 46100 Valencia, Spain.
Background:
Although mHealth tools have great potential for health interventions, few experimental studies report on their use by people with spinal cord injuries in physical activity.
Objective:
The main objective of this study was to analyze the effect of the ParaSportAPP on different physical and psychological variables in people with paraplegia.
Methods:
Fourteen of these subjects made up the final sample. All the participants performed two pre-tests (control period) and a post-test with 8 months between the evaluations (COVID-19 broke out between pre-test 2 and the post-test). The ParaSportAPP was installed on their smartphones when they performed pre-test 2. The same tests were performed in the same order in all the evaluations: (i) the questionnaires PASIPD, HADS, RS-25; SCIM III and AQoL-8D, (ii) respiratory muscle strength, (iii) spirometry and (iv) cardiopulmonary exercise test.
Results:
The results showed no differences in any of the variables studied between the measurement times.
Conclusions:
Although none of the variables experienced improvements, the ParaSportAPP mobile application was able to lessen the impact of the pandemic on the variables studied.
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