Effects of a Minimal Workplace Intervention to Reduce Sedentary Behaviors and Improve Perceived Wellness in Middle-Aged Women Office Workers

Urda, Joyan; Lynn, Jeff; Gorman, Andrea; Larouere, Beth

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“…Ten studies used a randomized controlled trial (RCT) design [37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49] and 10 studies used a non-randomized study design (Table 1). [50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59] Nine studies were conducted in the United States 37,40,42,43,47,52,53,55,56,58 and two in Brazil. 44,45 Studies were also conducted in Iran, 50 Tunisia, 54 Norway, 38,39 Ireland, 51 Sweden, 41 Japan, 59 Germany, 57 Singapore, 46 and the Netherlands.…”

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The effect of workplace lifestyle programmes on diet, physical activity, and weight‐related outcomes for working women: A systematic review using the TIDieR checklist

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Summary Physical activity and healthy diets are essential for the prevention of obesity and chronic disease that disparately impact women compared with men. Given the number of women engaged in the workforce, workplace interventions could improve lifestyle behaviours and health outcomes for women. This systematic review aimed to identify intervention characteristics of lifestyle programmes or organizational policy changes in the workplace associated with improved diet, physical activity, or weight‐related outcomes for working women using the template for intervention description and replication (TIDieR) checklist. Seven databases were searched for controlled studies published up to March 2019 that included a workplace diet and/or physical activity intervention. From 5,318 identified records, 20 studies (23 articles and 26 intervention arms) were included. Data were extracted on diet, physical activity, weight‐related outcomes, and TIDieR components. Findings indicated that group delivery may improve physical activity outcomes, and a high number of sessions may benefit weight‐related outcomes for physical activity interventions. Mixed interventions that included tailoring and input from non‐healthcare professionals may also enhance physical activity. In contrast, the role of mixed interventions in improving diet and weight‐related outcomes was less clear. Overall, workplace health programmes were effective at improving lifestyle behaviours for working women.

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The effect of workplace lifestyle programmes on diet, physical activity, and weight‐related outcomes for working women: A systematic review using the TIDieR checklist

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“…The contents of the reminders are not only the plain text to remind the time but also more complex sentences which reflect the other principles like suggestions (Donath et al, 2015;Tylor et al, 2016) and changing appearance like color (Gilson et al, 2016). However, the contents seem to have no effect on the interventions because different contents lead to same results when comparing (Tylor et al, 2016) and (Urda et al, 2016). It is important to note that all of the contents in the reviewed studies are fixed, from which the users can get less information after several times appearance of the reminders.…”

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Persuasive technology in reducing prolonged sedentary behavior at work: A systematic review

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Prolonged sedentary behavior is prevalent among office workers and has been found to be detrimental to health. Preventing and reducing prolonged sedentary behavior require interventions, and persuasive technology is expected to make a contribution in this domain. In this paper, we use the framework of persuasive system design (PSD) principles to investigate the utilization and effectiveness of persuasive technology in intervention studies at reducing sedentary behavior at work. This systematic review reveals that reminders are the most frequently used PSD principle. The analysis on reminders shows that hourly PC reminders alone have no significant effect on reducing sedentary behavior at work, while coupling with education or other informative session seems to be promising. Details of deployed persuasive technology with behavioral theories and user experience evaluation are lacking and expected to be reported explicitly in the future intervention studies. KEYWORDSSedentary behavior, intervention studies, workplace, persuasive technology, persuasive system design, systematic review.

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“…Pedersen et al, 2014; Urda, Lynn, Gorman, & Larouere, 2016). Prompts used to highlight opportunities to break SB were found to significantly increase the number of breaks and reduce the length of sitting bouts, yet they did not significantly reduce workplace sitting in comparison to the control condition (Donath et al, 2015;Evans et al, 2012;Urda et al, 2016). Prompts that provided information on activities to do during breaks significantly reduced workplace SB and participants reported completing activities such as stair-walking and chair squats during these activity breaks, highlighting that they engaged with the intervention (Pedersen et al, 2014;Urda, et al, 2016).…”

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“…However it is not clear as to why participants are engaging with these prompts, as well as if these changes are sustained. Two of the interventions lasted for two weeks (Swartz et al, 2014;Urda et al, 2016) meaning it is difficult to draw conclusions about how sustainable changes in workplace SB were. Further research is also needed to assess the feasibility of prompts during the working day and how much participants engaged with the prompts, as there was the option to ignore the on-screen prompts.…”

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An exploration of the determinants of sedentary behaviour in desk-based employees

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Sedentary behaviour (SB) is highly prevalent within desk-based employees (Clemes, O'Connell, & Edwardson, 2014) and is associated with a number of negative health consequences, including cardiovascular disease and diabetes (Wilmot et al, 2012). Interventions to reduce SB in the workplace, including active workstations (AWSs), can reduce SB (Neuhaus et al, 2014a), yet initial reductions are not to be sustained beyond 12-months (Koepp et al, 2013). Moreover, equipment-based interventions (e.g. AWS's) are perhaps unaffordable for many areas of commerce and industry. Understanding the determinants of SB in the workplace could help in the design of pragmatic, scalable interventions to maintain reductions in SB. A thorough exploration of the determinants of SB in desk-based workers was undertaken using an online questionnaire (Study 1, n=1,101), and semistructured interviews (Study 2, n=14). Organisational norms, control to sit, intentions to sit, social influences, and awareness of SB were identified as determinants of SB, underlining the complexity of SB in the workplace. Sitting was also reported to be a habitual behaviour and interestingly participants with AWSs only sat for 36 minutes less/working day than those with fixed sittingheight desks. This observation is low compared to data from previous research (78 minutes; Neuhaus et al, 2014a).

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Effects of a Minimal Workplace Intervention to Reduce Sedentary Behaviors and Improve Perceived Wellness in Middle-Aged Women Office Workers

Abstract: The intervention had no statistically significant effect on sitting time or sit-to-stand transitions. Participation improved perceived wellness in the absence of behavior change.

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The effect of workplace lifestyle programmes on diet, physical activity, and weight‐related outcomes for working women: A systematic review using the TIDieR checklist

The effect of workplace lifestyle programmes on diet, physical activity, and weight‐related outcomes for working women: A systematic review using the TIDieR checklist

Persuasive technology in reducing prolonged sedentary behavior at work: A systematic review

An exploration of the determinants of sedentary behaviour in desk-based employees

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