Authors
Charlotte L Edwardson, Tom Yates, Stuart JH Biddle, Melanie J Davies, David W Dunstan, Dale W Esliger, Laura J Gray, Benjamin Jackson, Sophie E O’Connell, Ghazala Waheed, Fehmidah Munir
Publication date
2018/10/10
Journal
bmj
Volume
363
Publisher
British Medical Journal Publishing Group
Description
Objectives
To evaluate the impact of a multicomponent intervention (Stand More AT (SMArT) Work) designed to reduce sitting time on short (three months), medium (six months), and longer term (12 months) changes in occupational, daily, and prolonged sitting, standing, and physical activity, and physical, psychological, and work related health.
Design
Cluster two arm randomised controlled trial.
Setting
National Health Service trust, England.
Participants
37 office clusters (146 participants) of desk based workers: 19 clusters (77 participants) were randomised to the intervention and 18 (69 participants) to control.
Interventions
The intervention group received a height adjustable workstation, a brief seminar with supporting leaflet, workstation instructions with sitting and standing targets, feedback on sitting and physical activity at three time points, posters, action planning and goal setting booklet, self monitoring and …
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CL Edwardson, T Yates, SJH Biddle, MJ Davies… - bmj, 2018