Impact of wearable physical activity monitoring devices with exercise prescription or advice in the maintenance phase of cardiac rehabilitation: systematic review and meta-analysis

Table 7 Qualitative Analysis of Physical Activity Outcome Measures

	Study Quality	Outcome Measure	Effect	Best Evidence Synthesis
Avila et al. [67]	Good	Steps/day and PA Duration	=	Moderate ^a
Butler et al. [68]	Good	PA Duration	+
Cupples et al. [69]	Fair	Steps/day	+
Shower and a. [70]	Fair	Steps/day	=
Guiraud et al. [71]	Good	Total Active Energy Expenditure	+
Houle et al. [72]	Good	% of participants over 7,500 steps/day	+
ter Hoeve et al. [52]	Good	Steps/day	+

+, significant difference favouring WPAM, −, significant difference favouring control, =, no significant difference between groups. ^aModerate Evidence: significant findings provided by one study with high quality and/or two or more studies with low quality, and by generally consistent findings in all studies (more than 60% of the studies reported consistent findings)
Abbreviations: PA physical activity, % percentage