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| Title |
Cellular telephone use during free-living walking significantly reduces average walking speed
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| Published in |
BMC Research Notes, March 2016
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| DOI | 10.1186/s13104-016-2001-y |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Jacob E. Barkley, Andrew Lepp |
| Abstract |
Cellular telephone (cell phone) use decreases walking speed in controlled laboratory experiments and there is an inverse relationship between free-living walking speed and heart failure risk. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of cell phone use on walking speed in a free-living environment. Subjects (n = 1142) were randomly observed walking on a 50 m University campus walkway. The time it took each subject to walk 50 m was recorded and subjects were coded into categories: cell phone held to the ear (talking, n = 95), holding and looking at the cell phone (texting, n = 118), not visibly using the cell phone (no use, n = 929). Subjects took significantly (p < 0.001) longer traversing the walkway when talking (39.3 s) and texting (37.9 s) versus no use (35.3 s). As was the case with the previous laboratory experiments, cell phone use significantly reduces average speed during free-living walking. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 33% |
| Unknown | 2 | 67% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 67% |
| Scientists | 1 | 33% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 53 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 53 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 11 | 21% |
| Student > Master | 10 | 19% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 6 | 11% |
| Professor | 5 | 9% |
| Researcher | 4 | 8% |
| Other | 6 | 11% |
| Unknown | 11 | 21% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Sports and Recreations | 11 | 21% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 7 | 13% |
| Engineering | 6 | 11% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 6 | 11% |
| Psychology | 2 | 4% |
| Other | 9 | 17% |
| Unknown | 12 | 23% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 18. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 November 2016.
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#1,974,623
of 24,885,505 outputs
Outputs from BMC Research Notes
#233
of 4,470 outputs
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#32,123
of 306,840 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Research Notes
#8
of 109 outputs
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