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Title:
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Patterns of impact resulting from a 'sit less, move more' web-based program in sedentary office employees
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Author:
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Puig Ribera, Anna; Bort Roig, Judit; González-Suárez, Ángel Manuel; Martínez-Lemos, Rodolfo Iván; Giné-Garriga, Maria; Fortuño, Josep; Martori, Joan Carles; Muñoz-Ortiz, Laura; Milà, Raimon; McKenna, Jim; Gilson, Nicholas D.
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Other authors:
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Universitat de Vic. Facultat d'Educació, Traducció i Ciències Humanes; Universitat de Vic. Facultat d'Empresa i Comunicació |
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Purpose
Encouraging office workers to ‘sit less and move more’ encompasses two public health priorities.
However, there is little evidence on the effectiveness of workplace interventions for
reducing sitting, even less about the longer term effects of such interventions and still less
on dual-focused interventions. This study assessed the short and mid-term impacts of a
workplace web-based intervention (Walk@WorkSpain, W@WS; 2010-11) on self-reported
sitting time, step counts and physical risk factors (waist circumference, BMI, blood pressure)
for chronic disease.
Methods
Employees at six Spanish university campuses (n=264; 42±10 years; 171 female) were
randomly assigned by worksite and campus to an Intervention (used W@WS; n=129; 87
female) or a Comparison group (maintained normal behavior; n=135; 84 female). This
phased, 19-week program aimed to decrease occupational sitting time through increased
incidental movement and short walks. A linear mixed model assessed changes in outcome
measures between the baseline, ramping (8 weeks), maintenance (11 weeks) and followup
(two months) phases for Intervention versus Comparison groups.A significant 2 (group) × 2 (program phases) interaction was found for self-reported occupational
sitting (F[3]=7.97, p=0.046), daily step counts (F[3]=15.68, p=0.0013) and waist circumference
(F[3]=11.67, p=0.0086). The Intervention group decreased minutes of daily
occupational sitting while also increasing step counts from baseline (446±126; 8,862±2,475)
through ramping (+425±120; 9,345±2,435), maintenance (+422±123; 9,638±3,131) and
follow-up (+414±129; 9,786±3,205). In the Comparison group, compared to baseline
(404±106), sitting time remained unchanged through ramping and maintenance, but decreased
at follow-up (-388±120), while step counts diminished across all phases. The
Intervention group significantly reduced waist circumference by 2.1cms from baseline to
follow-up while the Comparison group reduced waist circumference by 1.3cms over the
same period.
Conclusions
W@WSis a feasible and effective evidence-based intervention that can be successfully deployed
with sedentary employees to elicit sustained changes on “sitting less and moving more”. |
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-Exercici
-Salut en el treball |
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Aquest document està subjecte a aquesta llicència Creative Commons
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
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Article
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Plos One
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