SynthesisFrontiers in sports and active living2022
What works to reduce sedentary behavior in the office, and could these intervention components transfer to the home working environment?: A rapid review and transferability appraisal.
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- Interrupting sedentary behaviour when working from home: a qualitative exploration of older desk-based employees.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Understanding for whom, under which circumstances and how sedentary behaviour interventions for older adults work: a realist review.BMJ open · 2025Review
- Factors influencing reducing sedentary time in home office employees.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Are we working (too) comfortably?: the systematic development of an intervention to support workers to move more while working at home.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2025Article
- A digital intervention to reduce home-office workers' sedentary behaviour: protocol for the evaluation of the Click2Move programme, a cluster randomised controlled trial.BMC public health · 2025Article
- "Are we working (too) comfortably?": a focus group study to understand sedentary behaviour when working at home and identify intervention strategies.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Workplace active breaks for university workers: the UNIFIT pilot study protocol.BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2024Article
- Participant and workplace champion experiences of an intervention designed to reduce sitting time in desk-based workers: SMART work & life.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2023Article
- Co-Design of a Voice-Based Digital Health Solution to Monitor Persisting Symptoms Related to COVID-19 (UpcomingVoice Study): Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study.JMIR research protocols · 2023Article
- An intervention to promote positive homeworker health and wellbeing through effective home-working practices: a feasibility and acceptability study.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Sedentary Behavioral Studies of Young and Middle-Aged Adults with Hypertension in the Framework of Behavioral Epidemiology: A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Criteria and Guidelines for Human-Centered Work Design in a Digitally Transformed World of Work: Findings from a Formal Consensus Process.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
Background: Working patterns have changed dramatically due to COVID-19, with many workers now spending at least a portion of their working week at home. The office environment was already associated with high levels of sedentary behavior, and there is emerging evidence that working at home further elevates these levels. The aim of this rapid review (PROSPERO CRD42021278539) was to build on existing evidence to identify what works to reduce sedentary behavior in an office environment, and consider whether these could be transferable to support those working at home. Methods: The results of a systematic search of databases CENTRAL, MEDLINE, Embase, PsycInfo, CINHAL, and SportDiscus from 10 August 2017 to 6 September 2021 were added to the references included in a 2018 Cochrane review of office based sedentary interventions. These references were screened and controlled peer-reviewed English language studies demonstrating a beneficial direction of effect for office-based interventions on sedentary behavior outcomes in healthy adults were included. For each study, two of five authors screened the title and abstract, the full-texts, undertook data extraction, and assessed risk of bias on the included studies. Informed by the Behavior Change Wheel, the most commonly used intervention functions and behavior change techniques were identified from the extracted data. Finally, a sample of common intervention strategies were evaluated by the researchers and stakeholders for potential transferability to the working at home environment. Results: Twenty-two studies including 29 interventions showing a beneficial direction of effect on sedentary outcomes were included. The most commonly used intervention functions were training ( Conclusions: This review has characterized interventions that show a beneficial direction of effect to reduce office sedentary behavior, and identified promising strategies to support workers in the home environment as the world adapts to a new working landscape.
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