ArticleBMC public health2017
What are the working mechanisms of a web-based workplace sitting intervention targeting psychosocial factors and action planning?
Article in BMC public health, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02672215 (The Effectiveness of a Web-based Computer-tailored Intervention on Workplace Sitting), which is not on this map. Cited by 18 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The Effectiveness of a Web-based Computer-tailored Intervention on Workplace Sitting: a Randomized Controlled Trial
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Workplace interventions for reducing sitting at work.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018Pooled it
- An Integrative, Systematic Review Exploring the Research, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance of Interventions to Reduce Sedentary Behaviour in Office Workers.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Pooled it
- Workplace interventions for reducing sitting at work.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018Pooled it
- Which behaviour change techniques are effective to promote physical activity and reduce sedentary behaviour in adults: a factorial randomized trial of an e- and m-health intervention.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2020Trial
- Salutogenic Principles in Workplace Health Promotion Interventions: A Scoping Review.Journal of prevention (2022) · 2026Article
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- Moderators of the Effectiveness of UPcomplish on Office Workers' Sedentary Behaviour, Quality of Life, and Psychosocial Determinants: A Stepped Wedge Design.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2023Article
- A Social Cognitive Assessment of Workplace Sedentary Behavior among a Sample of University Employees.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- The Feasibility of a Text-Messaging Intervention Promoting Physical Activity in Shift Workers: A Process Evaluation.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Evaluating a web-based computer-tailored physical activity intervention for those living with and beyond lung cancer (ExerciseGuide UK): protocol for a single group feasibility and acceptability study.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2022Article
- Should We Scale-Up? A Mixed Methods Process Evaluation of an Intervention Targeting Sedentary Office Workers Using the RE-AIM QuEST Framework.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- From Evidence-Based Research to Practice-Based Evidence: Disseminating a Web-Based Computer-Tailored Workplace Sitting Intervention through a Health Promotion Organisation.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Article
- Self-reported actual and desired proportion of sitting, standing, walking and physically demanding tasks of office employees in the workplace setting: do they fit together?BMC research notes · 2017Article
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Abstract
backgroundOffice workers demonstrate high levels of sitting on workdays. As sitting is positively associated with adverse health risks in adults, a theory-driven web-based computer-tailored intervention to influence workplace sitting, named 'Start to Stand,' was developed. The intervention was found to be effective in reducing self-reported workplace sitting among Flemish employees. The aim of this study was to investigate through which mechanisms the web-based computer-tailored intervention influenced self-reported workplace sitting.
methodsEmployees (n = 155) participated in a clustered randomised controlled trial and reported socio-demographics (age, gender, education), work-related (hours at work, employment duration), health-related (weight and height, workplace sitting and physical activity) and psychosocial (knowledge, attitudes, self-efficacy, social support, intention regarding (changing) sitting behaviours) variables at baseline and 1-month follow-up. The product-of-coefficients test of MacKinnon based on multiple linear regression analyses was conducted to examine the mediating role of five psychosocial factors (knowledge, attitudes, self-efficacy, social support, intention). The influence of one self-regulation skill (action planning) in the association between the intervention and self-reported workplace sitting time was investigated via moderation analyses.
resultsThe intervention had a positive influence on knowledge (p = 0.040), but none of the psychosocial variables did mediate the intervention effect on self-reported workplace sitting. Action planning was found to be a significant moderator (p < 0.001) as the decrease in self-reported workplace sitting only occurred in the group completing an action plan.
conclusionsFuture interventions aimed at reducing employees' workplace sitting are suggested to focus on self-regulatory skills and promote action planning when using web-based computer-tailored advice.
trial registrationClinicaltrials.gov NCT02672215 ; (Archived by WebCite at https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02672215 ).
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