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Effectiveness of a Workplace "Sit Less and Move More" Web-based Program in Spanish Office Employees (Walk@WorkSpain)

NCT ID: NCT02960750

Last Updated: 2016-11-10

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

264 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2010-09-30

Study Completion Date

2011-06-30

Brief Summary

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This study assesses the short and mid-term impacts of a workplace web-based intervention (Walk@WorkSpain, W@WS) on self-reported occupational sitting time, step counts, activity-related energy expenditure, physical risk factors for chronic disease and efficiency-related outcomes in Spanish office employees. Half of participants had access to the W@WS website program while the other half was asked to maintain habitual behaviour.

Detailed Description

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Rising numbers of people have to sit for long hours every day especially for work and transport (3401184). This sedentary pattern that has been detrimentally associated with obesity and cardiovascular disease markers (4604082). However, replacing as little as 10 minutes of sedentary time with the same amount of light or moderate physical activity is associated with substantial health benefits (i.e. reduction of the metabolic syndrome) (26635358).

Because eighty percent of adults in developed countries spend one third of their working day doing sedentary, desk-based tasks (24603203) -representing a high exposure to this established health risk- displacing occupational sitting with physical activity may be a feasible option for improving office employees´ health and therefore public health (26984326).

In this context, there is a need to develop and evaluate translational research, based on theoretically-derived strategies, that can be successfully embedded into workplaces (26984326).

Conditions

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Sedentary Lifestyle Workplace Quality of Life Intervention Study

Keywords

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workplace sedentary behavior physical activity physical risk factors mental well-being presenteeism work productivity activity-related energy expenditures

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Participants

Study Groups

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Intervention group

Had access to the W@WS website program during 19 weeks.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

A workplace "sit less and move more" web-based program for Spanish office employees

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

W@WS encourages office employees to progressively 'sit less and move more' during workdays over 19 weeks. During the first 8 weeks (ramping phase), tips are provided every two weeks to break occupational sitting time through incidental movement during work tasks, introduce short walks (5-10 minutes) during morning/afternoon work breaks and/or commuting time, introduce longer walks at lunchtime and achieve at least 10,000 daily steps as well as increase walking intensity. During weeks 9 to 19, W@WS provides automated guidance with periodic emails encouraging behaviors achieved in the previous phase. Ecological support strategies such as logging daily step counts into a personal account and receiving visual feedback on the achievement of goals are also provided

Active comparison group

Maintained habitual behavior.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Active Comparison group

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

The Active Comparison group maintained habitual behavior. The A-CG was given a pedometer and a paper diary to register daily step counts and self-reported sitting time throughout the intervention.

Interventions

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A workplace "sit less and move more" web-based program for Spanish office employees

W@WS encourages office employees to progressively 'sit less and move more' during workdays over 19 weeks. During the first 8 weeks (ramping phase), tips are provided every two weeks to break occupational sitting time through incidental movement during work tasks, introduce short walks (5-10 minutes) during morning/afternoon work breaks and/or commuting time, introduce longer walks at lunchtime and achieve at least 10,000 daily steps as well as increase walking intensity. During weeks 9 to 19, W@WS provides automated guidance with periodic emails encouraging behaviors achieved in the previous phase. Ecological support strategies such as logging daily step counts into a personal account and receiving visual feedback on the achievement of goals are also provided

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Active Comparison group

The Active Comparison group maintained habitual behavior. The A-CG was given a pedometer and a paper diary to register daily step counts and self-reported sitting time throughout the intervention.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

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Walk@WorkSpain W@WS A-CG

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Office employees (university administrative and academic staff) with low and moderate physical activity levels (0 to 3,000 MET·min·wk-1 according to the International Physical Activity Questionnaire)

Exclusion Criteria

* Highly active office employees (\>3,000 MET·min·wk-1 according to the International Physical Activity Questionnaire)
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

65 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Spain

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role collaborator

University Ramon Llull

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of Vigo

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

The University of Queensland

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of Leeds

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Anna Puig-Ribera, Exercise and Health Sciences

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia

Locations

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University Ramon Llull

Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Site Status

University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia

Vic, Barcelona, Spain

Site Status

University of Vigo

Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain

Site Status

Vasque Country University

Vitoria-Gasteiz, Vasque Country, Spain

Site Status

Countries

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Spain

References

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Mailey EL, Rosenkranz SK, Casey K, Swank A. Comparing the effects of two different break strategies on occupational sedentary behavior in a real world setting: A randomized trial. Prev Med Rep. 2016 Aug 9;4:423-8. doi: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2016.08.010. eCollection 2016 Dec.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 27583200 (View on PubMed)

De Cocker K, De Bourdeaudhuij I, Cardon G, Vandelanotte C. The Effectiveness of a Web-Based Computer-Tailored Intervention on Workplace Sitting: A Randomized Controlled Trial. J Med Internet Res. 2016 May 31;18(5):e96. doi: 10.2196/jmir.5266.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 27245789 (View on PubMed)

Eng JY, Moy FM, Bulgiba A. Impact of a Workplace Health Promotion Program on Employees' Blood Pressure in a Public University. PLoS One. 2016 Feb 3;11(2):e0148307. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0148307. eCollection 2016.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 26840508 (View on PubMed)

Shrestha N, Kukkonen-Harjula KT, Verbeek JH, Ijaz S, Hermans V, Bhaumik S. Workplace interventions for reducing sitting at work. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2016 Mar 17;3(3):CD010912. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD010912.pub3.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 26984326 (View on PubMed)

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Reference Type RESULT
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Reference Type RESULT
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Reference Type RESULT
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Lofgren PA, Warner RG. Relationship of dietary caloric density and certain blood metabolites to voluntary feed intake in mature wethers. J Anim Sci. 1972 Dec;35(6):1239-47. doi: 10.2527/jas1972.3561239x. No abstract available.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 4647454 (View on PubMed)

Puig-Ribera A, Bort-Roig J, Gine-Garriga M, Gonzalez-Suarez AM, Martinez-Lemos I, Fortuno J, Martori JC, Munoz-Ortiz L, Mila R, Gilson ND, McKenna J. Impact of a workplace 'sit less, move more' program on efficiency-related outcomes of office employees. BMC Public Health. 2017 May 16;17(1):455. doi: 10.1186/s12889-017-4367-8.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 28511642 (View on PubMed)

Study Documents

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Document Type: Clinical Study Report

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Document Type: Clinical Study Report

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Other Identifiers

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DEP2009-11472

Identifier Type: OTHER_GRANT

Identifier Source: secondary_id

OR0431+D3009

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id