SynthesisSports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)2019
The Effectiveness of Sedentary Behaviour Reduction Workplace Interventions on Cardiometabolic Risk Markers: A Systematic Review.
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33 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 77 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Effectiveness of workplace health promotion programs for industrial workers: a systematic review.BMC public health · 2025Pooled it
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- Interventions in the workplace to reduce risk factors for noncommunicable diseases: an umbrella review of systematic reviews of effectiveness.Journal of occupational health · 2024Pooled it
- Promising behavior change techniques for climate-friendly behavior change - a systematic review.Frontiers in public health · 2024Pooled it
- Interventions to Reduce Sedentary Behavior in Cancer Patients and Survivors: a Systematic Review.Current oncology reports · 2022Pooled it
- A systematic review of interventions to increase physical activity and reduce sedentary behaviour following bariatric surgery.Physiotherapy · 2022Pooled it
- Reducing sedentary behaviour and physical inactivity in the workplace: protocol for a review of systematic reviews.BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2020Pooled it
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- Maintenance effects of a multilevel workplace intervention to reduce sedentary time: twenty-four-month follow-up of the group randomized clinical trial 'Stand and Move at Work'.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2025Trial
- Ukumela impilo randomised trial: preliminary findings of height-adjustable sit-to-stand workstations on health outcomes of South African office workers.BMC research notes · 2023Trial
- Effects of Sedentary Behavior Interventions on Mental Well-Being and Work Performance While Working from Home during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Trial
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- Multicomponent Behavior Change Technique Intervention for Caregivers of People With Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias: Protocol for a Single-Arm, Personalized Behavioral Trial to Disrupt Sedentary Time.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- Behavior change techniques to reduce sedentary behavior and increase physical activity in people at risk for cardiovascular disease: a scoping review.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2026Review
- Sleep, physical activity and mental health among 361 French business leaders: A cross-sectional descriptive study.PLOS global public health · 2026Article
- Exploring experiences and perceptions of early withdrawal from a height-adjustable sit-to-stand desk intervention among South African office workers.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Continuous work-related sitting time and its association with perceived workplace support for health among workers in the Greater Accra Municipality: a cross-sectional analysis with sensitivity analyses.BMC public health · 2024Article
- The Regulate your Sitting Time (RESIT) intervention for reducing sitting time in individuals with type 2 diabetes: findings from a randomised-controlled feasibility trial.Diabetology & metabolic syndrome · 2024Article
- Rest-Activity Rhythms Are Associated With Prevalent Cardiovascular Disease, Hypertension, Obesity, and Central Adiposity in a Nationally Representative Sample of US Adults.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundSedentary behaviour is a risk factor for type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
objectivesThe aims of this work were to systematically review the effects of workplace sedentary behaviour reduction interventions on cardiometabolic risk markers (primary aim) and identify the active behaviour change techniques (BCTs) by which these interventions work (secondary aim).
methodsA systematic search of 11 databases for articles published up to 12 April 2019 yielded a total of 4255 unique titles, with 29 articles being identified for inclusion. Interventions were rated as very promising, quite promising or non-promising based on their effects on cardiometabolic risk markers compared with baseline and/or a comparison arm. Interventions were coded for BCTs used. To assess the relative effectiveness of BCTs, a promise ratio was calculated as the frequency of a BCT appearing in all promising interventions divided by its frequency of appearance in all non-promising interventions.
resultsA narrative synthesis included 29 published studies of varying study design and comprised of 30 interventions. Risk of bias was high for blinding and allocation concealment, moderate for random sequence generation, and low for outcome assessment. Nine interventions were very promising, 11 were quite promising, 10 were non-promising, and 10 active control groups did not experience cardiometabolic changes. Significant sedentary behaviour reductions were present in all but five studies where cardiometabolic risk markers improved. The BCTs of social comparison, problem solving, demonstration of the behaviour, goal setting (behaviour), behaviour substitution, and habit reversal, demonstrated moderate to high promise ratios.
conclusionsWorkplace interventions show promise for improving cardiometabolic risk markers. The BCTs with the greatest promise of cardiometabolic risk marker improvements included social comparison, those related to individual habits, and behaviour goals. REGISTRATION: This systematic review was prospectively registered in PROSPERO (CRD42017072427).
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