ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020
Temporal dynamics of sitting behavior at work.
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- Screen time and depression risk: A meta-analysis of cohort studies.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- Characterizing and predicting person-specific, day-to-day, fluctuations in walking behavior.PloS one · 2021Trial
- Associations Between Room Function, Office Design, Workplace Spatial Layout, and Sitting Patterns During Office Work: A Field Study.Journal of occupational and environmental medicine · 2026Article
- Exploring boundary conditions of physical activity maintenance: A secondary analysis of time-series data from a weight-loss intervention.Health psychology and behavioral medicine · 2025Article
- Sitting patterns in cardiovascular disease patients compared with healthy controls and impact of cardiac rehabilitation.Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports · 2022Article
- Rise and Recharge: Exploring Employee Perceptions of and Contextual Factors Influencing an Individual-Level E-Health Smartphone Intervention to Reduce Office Workers' Sedentary Time at Work.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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- Perception and acceptance of a multicomponent routine program of active breaks for office workers.Revista brasileira de medicina do trabalho : publicacao oficial da Associacao Nacional de Medicina do Trabalho-ANAMTArticle
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Abstract
Sitting for prolonged periods of time impairs people's health. Prior research has mainly investigated sitting behavior on an aggregate level, for example, by analyzing total sitting time per day. By contrast, taking a dynamic approach, here we conceptualize sitting behavior as a continuous chain of sit-to-stand and stand-to-sit transitions. We use multilevel time-to-event analysis to analyze the timing of these transitions. We analyze ∼30,000 objectively measured posture transitions from 156 people during work time. Results indicate that the temporal dynamics of sit-to-stand transitions differ from stand-to-sit transitions, and that people are quicker to switch postures later in the workday, and quicker to stand up after having been more active in the recent hours. We found no evidence for associations with physical fitness. Altogether, these findings provide insights into the origins of people's stand-up and sit-down decisions, show that sitting behavior is fundamentally different from exercise behavior, and provide pointers for the development of interventions.
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