Project Energise: Using participatory approaches and real time computer prompts to reduce occupational sitting and increase work time physical activity in office workers

Gilson, Nicholas D.; Ng, Norman; Pavey, Toby; Ryde, Gemma; Straker, Leon; Brown, Wendy J.

doi:10.1016/j.jsams.2016.01.009

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“…Assuming an 8-hour workday, this equates to an approximately 30 minute reduction per day in workplace sitting time. Although the response rate and the self-reported data should be taken into consideration when interpreting the data, the findings are consistent with those achieved when interventions have been led by external research teams [23,30,31]. Results from the multiple-imputation analyses were attenuated (3.9%), but were still statistically significant.…”

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confidence: 70%

“…Participants were provided with a menu of 13 common strategies that have been used to promote standing up, sitting less and moving more in the desk-based environment [6,22,23], and then asked to indicate the extent to which they used these strategies (never/rarely; sometimes; often/very often; not applicable). Strategy use was measured as the percentage of the 13 strategies participants reported using at least "sometimes".…”

Section: Activity-promoting Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Assessing the Feasibility and Pre-Post Impact Evaluation of the Beta (Test) Version of the BeUpstanding Champion Toolkit in Reducing Workplace Sitting: Pilot Study (Preprint)

Healy¹,

Eakin²,

Winkler³

et al. 2017

Preprint

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 70%

Section: Activity-promoting Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessing the Feasibility and Pre-Post Impact Evaluation of the Beta (Test) Version of the BeUpstanding Champion Toolkit in Reducing Workplace Sitting: Pilot Study (Preprint)

Healy¹,

Eakin²,

Winkler³

et al. 2017

Preprint

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“…Participatory approaches have yielded promising results in terms of increasing work-related physical activity and reducing prolonged sitting [12,14] and further application is warranted.…”

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confidence: 99%

Impact and process evaluation of a co-designed ‘Move More, Sit Less’ intervention in a public sector workplace

Engelen

Drayton

Young

et al. 2019

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Background: High levels of sitting are associated with increased risk of adverse health outcomes, including chronic disease. Extensive sitting at work is common, hence organisations should provide options to employees to reduce prolonged sitting. OBJECTIVE:To assess the efficacy and acceptability of a co-designed intervention to increase standing and reduce sitting in a public-sector office. METHODS:Forty-six adults participated in the quasi-experimental study (30 intervention; 16 control).The intervention involved providing sit-stand desks, prompts, workshops, and information emails to assist behavior change. Participants wore a thigh-mounted Actigraph GT3X+ for five working days and responded to an online questionnaire at baseline (BL), 6 (T1) and 13 weeks (T2) post intervention. RESULTS:Inclinometer-measured proportion of time standing increased in the intervention group from 14% (baseline) to 28% (T1) and 27% (T2) (67 minutes more standing over an 8-hour workday). Intervention participants reduced sitting time from 79% (BL) to 63% (T1 and T2), (80 minutes less sitting over an 8-hour workday). The control group showed no changes. The program was highly recommended (94%), and perceived to support behavior change (81%). CONCLUSIONS:This Move More, Sit Less intervention appears to be efficacious and acceptable. Future interventions should be co-designed to ensure culturally appropriate components and higher acceptability.

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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).…”

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confidence: 99%

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

Wang

Lange

et al. 2018

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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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Project Energise: Using participatory approaches and real time computer prompts to reduce occupational sitting and increase work time physical activity in office workers

Abstract: In this sample of office workers, real time computer prompts facilitated the impact of a participatory approach on reductions in occupational sedentary exposure, and increases in physical activity.

Cited by 42 publications

References 27 publications

Assessing the Feasibility and Pre-Post Impact Evaluation of the Beta (Test) Version of the BeUpstanding Champion Toolkit in Reducing Workplace Sitting: Pilot Study (Preprint)

Assessing the Feasibility and Pre-Post Impact Evaluation of the Beta (Test) Version of the BeUpstanding Champion Toolkit in Reducing Workplace Sitting: Pilot Study (Preprint)

Impact and process evaluation of a co-designed ‘Move More, Sit Less’ intervention in a public sector workplace

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

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