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PAWS Lab | Physical Activity and Wearable Sensors Research Lab

The GEMS

The goal of this project is to identify social determiniants of health factors that might impact (1) physical activity and sleep and (2) the usage and perception of digital health tools in Black and Hispanic women of reproductive age. This study is funded by the Research Enhancement Program at UTA. 

Recruitment for this study ended in December 2022. We collected crossectional survey data from a total of 992 women (497 Black women and 495 Hispanic women). We are currently processing data from these surveys!

Research manurscripts related to this study:

  • Liao, Y. & Brown, K. K. (2022). Usage of digital health tools and perception of mHealth intervention for physical activity and sleep in black women. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(3), 1557. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19031557

Conference presentations related to this study:

  • Brown, K. K. & Liao, Y. (2021, October). Understanding black women’s attitude and concerns with providing biospecimen samples in health research. Talk presented at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting & Expo 2021, Denver, CO.
  • Liao, Y & Brown, K. K. (2022, April). Physical activity and sleep patterns, wearable usages, and perceptions of wearable sensors-based interventions in Black women. Poster presented at the 43rd Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
  • Moza, J., Wilson, G. M., Brown, K. K., & Liao, Y. (2023, September). A geolocation analysis of Hispanic women who participated in an online survey about digital health. Poster presented at the Third Annual Texas Health Informatics Alliance Conference, Houston, TX.
  • Liao, Y., Moza, J., Spadola, C., Brown, K. K., & Wilson, G. (2023, November). Do you want your smartwatch to tell you what to do? Perspectives from Hispanic women. Talk to be presented at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting & Expo 2023, Atlanta, GA.
  • Affleck, H. A., Brown, K. K., Brannon, G. E., & Liao, Y. (2024, February). Recruitment of historically underrepresented and racially minoritized women for disease prevention research: Results from two digital health studies. Poster presented at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth 5th Annual Women’s Cardiovascular and Brain Health Symposium, Fort Worth, TX.
  • Liao, Y., Affleck, H., Moza, J., Swartz, M., Sun, F., Brown, K. K., & Wilson, G. (2024, March). Influence of neighborhood-level factors on perceptions of mHealth physical activity intervention in racial minority women. Talk presented at the 45th Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, Philadelphia, PA.
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