Institute for Health Research, University of Bedfordshire, Luton, United Kingdom.
Quality Improvement, Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust, Northampton, United Kingdom.
Front Public Health. 2022 Apr 12;10:832374. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.832374. eCollection 2022.
The workplace is a major contributor to excessive sitting in office workers. There are a wide array of adverse effects of high volumes of sitting time, including an increased risk of type 2 diabetes and depression. Active workstations can be used in effective interventions to decrease workplace sitting. However, there are a lack of interventions that have been developed using a systematic process that is informed by participant needs and a framework for identifying the most appropriate content for the intervention. Applying these methods could increase adherence and potential effectiveness of the intervention. Therefore, the purpose of this pilot study is to examine the feasibility, acceptability, and efficacy of a tailored workplace intervention to reduce and break up sitting in office workers that has been developed using the Behavior Change Wheel and the APEASE (Acceptability, Practicability, Effectiveness/cost-effectiveness, Affordability, Safety/side-effects, Equity) criteria. This article reports the protocol for this study that is currently ongoing. Participants will be cluster-randomized (by offices) to control and intervention groups. The evaluation of the intervention includes determining feasibility by assessing participant recruitment, retention and data completion rates. Adherence to the intervention will be assessed based on daily sitting and standing time relative to guidelines provided to participants as part of the intervention. Outcome measures also include productivity measured using Ecological Momentary Assessment, absenteeism, presenteeism, cardiometabolic risk markers, and wellbeing. The findings of this study will inform the effective design and implementation of interventions for reducing and breaking up sitting in office workers.
工作场所是导致上班族久坐的主要因素。长时间久坐会产生很多负面影响，包括增加患 2 型糖尿病和抑郁症的风险。活动式工作站可以用于减少工作场所久坐的有效干预措施。然而，缺乏使用系统流程开发的干预措施，该系统流程由参与者的需求和确定干预最适当内容的框架提供信息。应用这些方法可以提高干预措施的依从性和潜在效果。因此，本试点研究的目的是检验使用行为改变轮和 APEASE（可接受性、实用性、有效性/成本效益、可负担性、安全性/副作用、公平性）标准开发的针对减少和打断上班族久坐的定制化工作场所干预措施的可行性、可接受性和效果。本文报告了正在进行的这项研究的方案。参与者将按办公室进行（整群）随机分组到对照组和干预组。通过评估参与者招募、保留和数据完成率来确定干预措施的可行性。将根据参与者作为干预措施一部分收到的指南来评估对干预措施的遵守情况，通过日常坐姿和站立时间来评估。结果指标还包括使用生态瞬时评估法测量的生产力、缺勤、出勤、心血管代谢风险标志物和幸福感。这项研究的结果将为减少和打断上班族久坐的干预措施的有效设计和实施提供信息。
