DIGiAktiv aims to establish and further develop digital health technologies for recording and promoting physical activity in order to enable the holistic recording of health parameters.
Integrating this technology into daily routines enables the direct recording of an essential health behaviour component (physical activity), which can improve the quality of interaction between, for example, the healthcare system and the person concerned in order to optimise the recovery process or slow down the progression of disease.
Monitoring physical activity provides an opportunity for direct feedback on exercise goals; this allows strategies that can serve, for example, to achieve a health-relevant level of physical activity to be improved jointly. At the same time, monitoring the physical activity actually performed indicates the extent to which increased physical activity could be associated with other improvements or changes (laboratory parameters, quality of life, etc.) over time.

A key innovative aspect of the project idea is that, in addition to recording physical activity, the app offers incentives and strategies for optimising physical activity based on current behavioural theory constructs, such as the theory of planned behaviour and self-determination theory. Such applications have already been used in a research context, and the available results indicate that they can be used to implement highly relevant health promotion measures. The integration of smartphone-based intervention programmes could be a significant innovative step in the digitalisation of the healthcare system.
The relevant innovation of this application compared to the state of the art is the standardised and active recording and feedback of the behavioural variable "physical activity" by healthcare providers with the aim of integrating this behavioural variable into treatment management. On the one hand, this ensures that the technology is optimised to avoid measurement errors; above all, however, this strategy of behaviour monitoring (with informed consent) opens up a new dimension in treatment, in which not only subjective information but also actually recorded behavioural variables can be included in the planning. Computer-assisted feedback on the physical activity actually performed via portable digital health technology in routine clinical practice can be planned to increase activity with the direct involvement of the person concerned. Combined with other existing monitoring strategies (patient-reported outcomes – PROs, laboratory values), counselling in routine clinical practice can thus be further optimised and standardised, resulting in direct benefits for users.
The aim is to combine physical activity data with patient-reported outcomes (PROs) to create a comprehensive picture of health status and thus improve the quality of clinical decision-making.
Another goal of this app is to optimise both clinical care and health promotion through the use of these technologies. The aim is to develop personalised, evidence-based measures to specifically promote physical activity and improve people's health in the long term.