The Effect of Breaking up Sitting in the Workplace on Cardiometabolic Risk and Worker Productivity

University of Bedfordshire

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Sedentary Lifestyle

Treatments: Behavioral: Breaking up sitting

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03560544

IHREC836

Details and patient eligibility

About

This pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) will examine the effect of a tailored workplace intervention based on interrupting sitting on work productivity, well-being and cardio-metabolic risk in office workers. The experimental group in the 8-week intervention will be prompted to alternate between sitting and standing while working. The ratio between sitting and standing will begin at 3:1 (two hours per day in an eight-hour day) and increase to 1:1 (four hours per day in an eight-hour day) by the end of the second week of the eight-week intervention.

Enrollment: 46 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Full-time office employees from any ethnic background, PC/Android phone users, and recruited from two different work sites.

Exclusion criteria

• Pregnancy
• History of musculoskeletal complaint
• Non-ambulatory
• Having a planned holiday that would mean they would not be at work for more than two weeks during the 8-week intervention period.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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46 participants in 2 patient groups

Breaking up sitting time

Experimental group

Description:

A behaviour-change intervention to break up prolonged sitting in the workplace

Treatment:

Behavioral: Breaking up sitting

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

The participants in the control group will continue their daily activities as normal without any form of information about the intervention.