Impact of a Mobile Phone Intervention to Reduce Sedentary Behavior in a Community Sample of Adults: A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation

Darla E Kendzor   ^{1, 2 *} , PhD ;   Kerem Shuval   ^{3 *} , PhD ;   Kelley Pettee Gabriel   ⁴ , PhD ;   Michael S Businelle   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Ping Ma   ⁵ , PhD ;   Robin R High   ⁶ , MA,MBA ;   Erica L Cuate   ⁷ , MPH ;   Insiya B Poonawalla   ⁷ , PhD ;   Debra M Rios   ⁷ , MS ;   Wendy Demark-Wahnefried   ⁸ , PhD,RD ;   Michael D Swartz   ⁹ , PhD ;   David W Wetter   ¹⁰ , PhD

¹ Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, United States

² Oklahoma Tobacco Research Center, Stephenson Cancer Center, Oklahoma City, OK, United States

³ Intramural Research Department, Economic and Health Policy Research Program, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA, United States

⁴ School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Austin, TX, United States

⁵ Department of Clinical Sciences, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States

⁶ College of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, United States

⁷ School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center, Dallas, TX, United States

⁸ Department of Nutrition Sciences, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States

⁹ School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX, United States

¹⁰ Department of Psychology, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States

*these authors contributed equally