Standing Behavior After Installation of Height-Adjustable Desks

USDA Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Office Workers; Sitting Occupations

Treatments: Other: Height-Adjustable Desk Intallation in Office

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT01787643

GFHNRC702

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this research study is to determine whether height-adjustable desks change sitting and standing time at work and away from work, engery expenditure, dietary intake, and body composition. Intermittent peroids of standing made possible by height-adjustable desks may help to impart long-term health benefits.

Enrollment: 14 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 99 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being one of the 18 scientists and support staff who have sedentary jobs
• Voluntarily make the choice to replace their current fixed-height sitting desk for a sit-to-stand height-adjustable desk
• Consents to study conditions

Exclusion criteria

• Cannot stand for any type of health of orthopedic reasons
• Do not work fulltime
• Pregnant at baseline or become pregnant during the study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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14 participants in 1 patient group

Standing desk

Experimental group

Description:

Installation of standing desk

Treatment:

Other: Height-Adjustable Desk Intallation in Office