Workplace Wellness: Improving Your Experience at Work

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Obesity; Sedentary Behavior
• Interventions: Behavioral: Nutrition condition; Behavioral: Self-regulation condition; Behavioral: Affective condition; Behavioral: Instrumental condition

• Registration Number: NCT04082624
• Lead Sponsor: University of Victoria

Brief Summary

The primary objective of study was to compare affective (i.e., highlighted emotional benefits), instrumental (i.e., highlighted other health benefits), and self-regulation (i.e., demonstrated ways to plan, set goals, etc.) interventions in terms of their ability to motivate less sitting in the workplace. Research of this type is important because people sit for long periods of time at work which adversely affects their health and productivity.

It was hypothesized that the affective and self-regulation groups would sit less than the instrumental and control groups based on evidence indicating that affective attitude (i.e., emotional evaluation of the behavior) and self-regulation techniques tend to predict behavior.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2014-09
• Primary Completion: 2015-04
• Study Completion: 2015-04
• Status Verified: 2019-09
• Study First Submitted: 2019-09-04
• Study First Submitted QC: 2019-09-06
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-09-06
• Study First Posted: 2019-09-09
• Last Update Posted: 2019-09-09

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 116

Inclusion Criteria

• From a local workplace in Victoria
• Full-time employee (i.e., greater than 35 hours per week)
• Reported over 5.5 hours of sitting per day at work
• Agreed to attend the 3 intervention sessions

Exclusion Criteria

• Not from a local workplace in Victoria
• Not a full-time employee (i.e., 35 hours or less per week)
• Reported less than 5.5 hours of sitting per day at work
• Did not agree to attend the 3 intervention sessions

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Nutrition condition	Nutrition condition	Received nutrition information such as the comparison of nutritional information between orange juice and soda pop. Received intervention following measurements at baseline, week 4, and week 8.
Self-regulation condition	Self-regulation condition	Learned how to self-monitor their sedentary behavior and active breaks. They also learned how to create prompts/cues (e.g., sticky note reminder), problem solve to overcome barriers, action plan (i.e., specifying when, where, and how to do the behavior), and set goals in order to be less sedentary according to SMART (i.e., specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, time-oriented) principles. Received intervention following measurements at baseline, week 4, and week 8.
Affective condition	Affective condition	Learned about the affective benefits (e.g., less depression) of reduced office sitting time through taking active breaks. Received intervention following measurements at baseline, week 4, and week 8.
Instrumental condition	Instrumental condition	Learned about instrumental benefits such as the relationship between sitting and cardiovascular disease and absenteeism at work. Received intervention following measurements at baseline, week 4, and week 8.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Sitting time	Twelve weeks post-baseline	Average hours of sitting time per day at work

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Behavioural Medicine Laboratory; 🇨🇦 Victoria, British Columbia, Canada