作者
Taleb A Alkhajah, Marina M Reeves, Elizabeth G Eakin, Elisabeth AH Winkler, Neville Owen, Genevieve N Healy
发表日期
2012/9/1
期刊
American journal of preventive medicine
卷号
43
期号
3
页码范围
298-303
出版商
Elsevier
简介
BACKGROUND
Sitting time is a prevalent health risk among office-based workers.
PURPOSE
To examine, using a pilot study, the efficacy of an intervention to reduce office workers' sitting time.
DESIGN
Quasi-experimental design with intervention-group participants recruited from a single workplace that was physically separate from the workplaces of comparison-group participants.
SETTING/PARTICIPANTS
Office workers (Intervention, n=18; Comparison, n=14) aged 20–65 years from Brisbane, Australia; data were collected and analyzed in 2011.
INTERVENTION
Installation of a commercially available sit–stand workstation.
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES
Changes from baseline at 1-week and 3-month follow-up in time spent sitting, standing, and stepping at the workplace and during all waking time (activPAL3 activity monitor, 7-day observation). Fasting total cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol …
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