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SynthesisAmerican journal of preventive medicine2009

Meta-analysis of workplace physical activity interventions.

Vicki S Conn, Adam R Hafdahl, Pamela S Cooper, Lori M Brown, Sally L Lusk

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Synthesis in American journal of preventive medicine, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06228495 (Recovery at Your Fingertips), which is not on this map. Cited by 228 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT06228495 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2022, after this paper: background citation

Recovery at Your Fingertips: Pilot Study of an mHealth Intervention for Work-Related Stress Among Nursing Students (DIARY)

TypeinterventionalSponsorKarolinska InstitutetRan2022 to 2022Enrolled16ConditionsWork Related StressArmsDaily Intervention for Active Recovery
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Vicki S ConnSchool of Nursing, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA. conn@missouri.edu
Adam R Hafdahl
Pamela S Cooper
Lori M Brown
Sally L Lusk

Funding

Meta-Analysis of Interventions to Increase Exercise/Physical AcivityR01NR009656 · NINR · UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA · PI CONN, VICKI S · 2006 to 2009
$1.6M
NINR NIH HHS R01 NR009656NINR NIH HHS R01NR009656
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

contextMost adults do not achieve adequate physical activity levels. Despite the potential benefits of worksite health promotion, no previous comprehensive meta-analysis has summarized health and physical activity behavior outcomes from such programs. This comprehensive meta-analysis integrated the extant wide range of worksite physical activity intervention research. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION: Extensive searching located published and unpublished intervention studies reported from 1969 through 2007. Results were coded from primary studies. Random-effects meta-analytic procedures, including moderator analyses, were completed in 2008. EVIDENCE SYNTHESIS: Effects on most variables were substantially heterogeneous because diverse studies were included. Standardized mean difference (d) effect sizes were synthesized across approximately 38,231 subjects. Significantly positive effects were observed for physical activity behavior (0.21); fitness (0.57); lipids (0.13); anthropometric measures (0.08); work attendance (0.19); and job stress (0.33). The significant effect size for diabetes risk (0.98) is less robust given small sample sizes. The mean effect size for fitness corresponds to a difference between treatment minus control subjects' means on VO2max of 3.5 mL/kg/min; for lipids, -0.2 on the ratio of total cholesterol to high-density lipoprotein; and for diabetes risk, -12.6 mg/dL on fasting glucose.

conclusionsThese findings document that some workplace physical activity interventions can improve both health and important worksite outcomes. Effects were variable for most outcomes, reflecting the diversity of primary studies. Future primary research should compare interventions to confirm causal relationships and further explore heterogeneity.

Indexed as

Health BehaviorOutcome Assessment, Health CareProgram EvaluationEffect Modifier, EpidemiologicHealth StatusHumansJob SatisfactionLeisure ActivitiesMotor ActivityOccupational HealthPhysical FitnessQuality of LifeWorkplace

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PMID19765506
PMCPMC2758638

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