The development of an intervention for reducing sitting time in the workplace
- Conditions
- Sedentary behaviourNot Applicable
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN29395780
- Lead Sponsor
- King's College London
- Brief Summary
2017 protocol in: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29209512 2019 results in https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-019-7196-0 (added 07/08/2020)
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 29
1. Office- and desk-based KCL employees whose job requires them to sit at a dedicated workstation (i.e. not a ’hot-desker’) for the majority of their working day and to follow this working day pattern at least 3 days per week
2. Aged 18 or over (there is no upper age limit)
3. Able to stand at work (i.e., no physical impairment precluding standing in the workplace)
1. Participants must not have taken part in similar ’standing while working’ research previously or used a sit-stand desk at their work station for two or more days in a row
2. They also must not have plans to leave KCL or plans to take an absence for longer than 10 consecutive work days for the duration of the study period (October 2016 to June 2017)
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <br> 1. Periods of, and transitions between, sitting and standing, measured using accelerometer-inclinometer devices over one week at 1, 5 and 11 weeks after the intervention session<br> 2. Qualitative data from responses to open-ended interview questions across three sessions 1, 6 and 12 weeks after the intervention session<br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <br> 1. Participant records of tasks undertaken during monitoring week from Day 1 to Day 8<br> 2. Participants' subjective measure of sitting time on Day 10<br>