Use of a Smartphone App Versus Motivational Interviewing to Increase Walking Distance and Weight Loss in Overweight/Obese Adults With Peripheral Artery Disease: Pilot Randomized Trial

Tracie Collins   ¹ , MS, MPH, MD ;   Mugur Geana   ^{2 *} , MD, PhD ;   Kathryn Overton   ^{3 *} , MS ;   Mary Benton   ^{4 *} , MA, PhD ;   Liuqiang Lu   ^{4 *} , MS ;   Faarina Khan   ^{4 *} , MPH ;   Mason Rohleder   ^{4 *} , MPH ;   Jasjit Ahluwalia   ^{5 *} , MS, MPH, MD ;   Ken Resnicow   ^{6 *} , PhD ;   Yiliang Zhu   ⁷ , PhD

¹ College of Population Health, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States

² School of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States

³ University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States

⁴ University of Kansas School of Medicine, Wichita, KS, United States

⁵ Brown University, Providence, RI, United States

⁶ University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

⁷ University of New Mexico, School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM, United States

*these authors contributed equally