Take A Stand for Workplace Health: A Sit-stand Workstation Project Evaluation

Brunel University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Physical Activity

Treatments: Behavioral: Sit-stand workstation provision

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02172599

TSWH

R33134 (Other Grant/Funding Number)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to examine the contribution of sit-stand workstations to total daily physical activity in a multi-component office-based 12 month intervention.

Full description

This study adopts a randomised control trial design and is mixed methods (qualitative and quantitative). The outcome data from the trial is quantitative. Alongside this a qualitative process evaluation will be conducted to inform the intervention, explain trial results and understand the intervention implementation and context (Cathain et al. 2014). Two worksites will participate in this study, in line with COCHRANE recommendations for randomised control trials.

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Must be a full-time employee on a fixed term contract for at least 18 months at one of the two worksites involved in the study (Macmillan Cancer Support, Public Health England)
• Must engage in primarily desk-based work
• Must have their own desk (i.e. does not hot desk) Must be primarily office based (i.e. not working from home)
• Must have no plans to leave the organisation for an extended period (e.g. holiday > 4 weeks or secondment) or finitely before the anticipated study end date (January 2016)

Exclusion criteria

• Have engaged in standing-based desk work in the month prior to the start of the study
• Have been advised against standing by a health professional; or be unable to stand
• Work for the Macmillan Support Line

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Factorial Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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30 participants in 3 patient groups

multi-component intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Sit-stand workstation provision The multi-component intervention will align with the World Health Authority's promotion of a healthy workplace model, which emphasises that best-practice workplace health interventions should involve an integrated approach involving organisation and individual level approaches to behaviour change (WHO, 2010). Thus, participants will receive a sit-stand workstation with additional support to use the sit-stand workstation.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Sit-stand workstation provision

Sit-stand workstation only

Experimental group

Description:

Sit-stand workstation provision Participants in this arm will receive a sit-stand workstation. They will not receive any support to use the sit-stand workstation, except some health and safety advice upon installation.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Sit-stand workstation provision

Usual practice (seated workstation)

No Intervention group

Description:

This arm is the control group. They will continue to use their usual seated workstation for the duration of the study.