RCT Computer-tailored Intervention on Workplace Sitting (StartToStand)

University Ghent

Status: Completed

Conditions: Sedentary Lifestyle

Treatments: Behavioral: generic advice; Behavioral: Start to stand

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02672215

EC/2012/320

Details and patient eligibility

About

A theory-driven, web-based, computer-tailored advice to influence sitting at work was developed. The study investigated the effects of this computer-tailored intervention to influence workplace sitting on behavioural measures.

Full description

The study investigated the effects of the theory-driven, web-based, computer-tailored intervention to influence workplace sitting on objectively measured sitting time, standing time and breaks from sitting, as well as self-reported context-specific sitting. The computer-tailored advice was compared to a generic advice and a 'no-advice' control at 1-month and 3-months follow-up. The 'tailored' group received a web-based computer-tailored intervention including personalized feedback and tips on how to reduce and/or interrupt workplace sitting. The 'generic' group received a web-based intervention containing generic information and tips to reduce and/or interrupt workplace sitting. The control group was a waitlist control condition and received the generic intervention after completing all measurements. Participants were recruited from a convenience sample of two companies (university and environmental agency) in Flanders (i.e. northern Dutch-speaking part of Belgium), mainly employing desk-based workers, having more than 100 staff members and each having at least three different worksite locations.

Enrollment: 1,061 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• being employed

Exclusion criteria

• not being able to stand

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Factorial Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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1,061 participants in 3 patient groups

tailored group

Experimental group

Description:

Received a web-based computer-tailored intervention including personalized feedback and tips on how to reduce and/or interrupt workplace sitting.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Start to stand

generic group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Received a web-based intervention containing generic information and tips to reduce and/or interrupt workplace sitting.

Treatment:

Behavioral: generic advice

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

A waitlist control condition and received the generic intervention after completing all measurements