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The development of an intervention for reducing sitting time in the workplace

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Sedentary behaviour
Not 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
Inclusion Criteria

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)

Exclusion Criteria

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
NameTimeMethod
<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
NameTimeMethod
<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>
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