Desk Job—an app to encourage health and fitness in the workplace and beyond: mobile app user guide

McShane, Charlene M.; MacElhatton, Daniel

doi:10.1136/bjsports-2016-097060

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“…The exercises with the use of the educational model can be easily incorporated into your workday 5,6. Previous evidence showed that SE plays an important role in decreasing MSD pain as well as improving pain 7…”

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<p>Educational intervention for promoting stretching exercise behavior among a sample of Iranian office employees: applying the Health Promotion Model</p>

Delshad¹,

Tavafian²,

Kazemnejad³

2019

JPR

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Introduction Health Promotion Model (HPM) is one comprehensive model by which health behavior predicting factors could be determined. Purpose This study aimed to investigate the effects of a designed interventional program based on HPM on promoting stretching exercise (SE) behavior among office employees. Patients and methods This interventional designed study was carried out on 87 office employees who were working in the three health networks affiliated to Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Tehran, Iran. These participants were randomly divided into intervention group (N=44) who complied with educational program based on HPM and control group (N=43) who did not receive the program. The data were collected through a demographic questionnaire and a researcher-made questionnaire based on HPM at three times of baseline, 3- and 6-month follow-ups and analyzed using SPSS version 19. Results Totally, 40 office employees with mean age of (37.70±7.40) in intervention and 37 ones with mean age of (35.97±7.34) in control group were assessed. At baseline, both groups were the same regarding the HPM constructs of perceived barriers, perceived self-efficacy, commitment to plan, and interpersonal influences ( P >0.05). However, following intervention, there was a significant difference between two groups during 6-month follow-up in all these predictor factors ( P <0.0001). Furthermore, the mean score of SE behavior in intervention group (22.43±6.50) was significantly better than the control group (15.45±0.93) ( P <0.001). The pain severity also in intervention group (1±1.22) also was significantly less than control group (2±2.03) after 6-month follow-up ( P <0.001). Conclusion The SE educational programs applied in this study were effective for promoting SE among office employees.

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“…Office employees can select from a range of times for both sitting (5–120 minutes) and break (1–60 minutes) periods. When a break is due, office employees are prompted to perform stretching or strengthening exercises of a particular body part preselected 7…”

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<p>Educational intervention for promoting stretching exercise behavior among a sample of Iranian office employees: applying the Health Promotion Model</p>

Delshad¹,

Tavafian²,

Kazemnejad³

2019

JPR

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“…Along with all this information, recent research shows that mobile applications and the Internet-based approach are being used as an effective tool in the eld of exercise and health. Researchers have tried to increase the level of physical activity or awareness in different groups, such as patients with cancer [41], children with heart disease [42], people with diabetes [43], the elderly [44] and o ce workers [45], through mobile applications. As a result of the literature review conducted in conjunction with these current approaches, there was no study of evidence-based physical activity recommendations with CBT-based training support.…”

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Development of the Theory-Based Exercise Education and Prescription Smartphone Application for Sedentary Individuals: A Randomized Controlled Trial

GÜR,

Ayan

2024

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Introduction: This study aims to develop and test a Cognitive-Behavioral Theory (CBT) based mobile application in accordance with the evidence-based physical activity recommendations in order to improve the health-related physical fitness parameters of university students with inadequate levels of physical activity. Methods: Participants were selected from students at … University, who did not meet the lowest level of physical activity recommended by the World Health Organization and the American College of Sport Medicine for healthy adults for the past 6 months. Experimental research design with randomized control group was used in the study. Participants were randomly distributed into the experimental (n=63) and control groups (n=62). Participants in the experimental group performed an average of 40 minutes of aerobic, strength and flexibility exercises 4 days a week for 8 weeks, using the Exercise Education and Prescription (ERVE) mobile application, developed within the scope of the research. They also received CBT-based exercise education through the ERVE application. Participants were evaluated for health-related physical fitness parameters before and after the study. Results: As a result of the 8-week application through ERVE, the maximum oxygen consumption, maximum push-ups, maximum sit-ups, hand grip strength and body flexion values of the participants in the experimental group was found to statistically significantly differ than that of the control group (p<0.05). Conclusions: As a result, the ERVE mobile application can help university students with insufficient levels of physical activity increase their physical activity levels and improve some of the health-related physical fitness parameters.

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Desk Job—an app to encourage health and fitness in the workplace and beyond: mobile app user guide

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<p>Educational intervention for promoting stretching exercise behavior among a sample of Iranian office employees: applying the Health Promotion Model</p>

<p>Educational intervention for promoting stretching exercise behavior among a sample of Iranian office employees: applying the Health Promotion Model</p>

Development of the Theory-Based Exercise Education and Prescription Smartphone Application for Sedentary Individuals: A Randomized Controlled Trial

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