The Personal Health Management Study (PHMS)
Initiatives
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The Personal Health Management Study (PHMS) is an assessment of the effect of a voluntary employee-facing health initiative using a commercially-available wearable device implemented among 565 employeesof Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. The results of the initiative on physical activity (measured assteps) and sleep is reported.
Note: All published information has been collected from the article referenced in the Marker Paper box below. Therefore, there may be variations with more advanced versions of the study.
- Start Year
- 2013
- Funding
- HITLAB received funding for this research from Boehringer Ingelheim
Design
- Study design
- Population cohort
Marker Paper
Crowley O, Pugliese L, Kachnowski S. The Impact of Wearable Device Enabled Health Initiative on Physical Activity and Sleep. Cureus. 2016;8(10):e825. Published 2016 Oct 11. doi:10.7759/cureus.825
PUBMED 27882272
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 565
- Number of participants with biosamples
Access
Availability of data and biosamples
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Timeline
phms
565 BI employees aged 23–67 drawn from a population of approximately 3,500 eligible individuals at BI’sRidgefield, Connecticut campus were recruited and consented into the PHMS
Selection Criteria
- Minimum age
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23
- Maximum age
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67
- Newborns
- Twins
- Ethnic Origin
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- Health Status
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- Other criteria
- The inclusion criteria for thisprogram included permanent employment at BI and access to a device capable of hosting the Jawbone UP®mobile application (including the iPhone, Android phone, iPad, or iPod touch). Individuals who werepregnant, had an ambulatory disability, terminated employment at BI, or previously owned an UP® byJawbone band were not eligible for this study.
Recruitment
- Sources of recruitment
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- General population
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 565
- Number of participants with biosamples
Data Collection Event
Physical activity and sleep - UP® by Jawbone is a consumer-facing activity measuring device that uses aprecision motion sensor and actigraphy monitoring to track steps and sleep. The study participants syncedtheir UP® band to the UP® iPhone application (UP® app) that displayed their daily steps and sleep (capturedas hours of deep and light sleep, and total number of hours slept) data, provided weekly and monthlyreports, and sent messages encouraging the participants to meet their respective goals.
- Start Date
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2013-09
- End Date
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2014-09
- Data sources
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Mobile data collection
- Smartphone apps
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Mobile data collection