The Use of Mobile Technologies to Promote Physical Activity and Reduce Sedentary Behaviors in the Middle East and North Africa Region: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Huong Ly Tong   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Aroub Alnasser   ³ , PhD ;   Najim Z Alshahrani   ⁴ , MD ;   Rowaedh A Bawaked   ⁵ , PhD ;   Reem AlAhmed   ⁶ , BSc ;   Reem F Alsukait   ² , PhD ;   Severin Rakic   ² , PhD ;   Volkan Cetinkaya   ² , PhD ;   Hazzaa M Al-Hazzaa   ⁷ , PhD ;   Saleh A Alqahtani   ^{8, 9} , PhD

¹ Cultural and Indigenous Research Centre Australia, Redfern, Australia

² The World Bank Group, Washington, DC, United States

³ Department of Food Science and Nutrition, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

⁴ Department of Family and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Jeddah, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

⁵ Department of Public Health, Saudi Electronic University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

⁶ Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Scientific Computing, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

⁷ Health Sciences Research Center, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

⁸ Organ Transplant Center of Excellence, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

⁹ Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States