Planning engagement with web resources to improve diet quality and break up sedentary time for home-working employees: A mixed methods study.

ABSTRACT: As home working becomes more common, employers may struggle to provide health promotion interventions that can successfully bridge the gap between employees' intentions to engage in healthier behaviors and actual action. Based on past evidence that action planning can successfully encourage the adoption of healthier behaviors, this mixed-methods study of a web-based self-help intervention incorporated a randomized planning trial that included quantitative measures of engagement and follow-up qualitative interviews with a subsample of participants. Participants either (a) selected a movement plan for incorporating a series of 2-min exercise videos into their work week to break up sedentary time and a balanced meal plan with recipe cards for a week's lunches and dinners or (b) received acces

SUBMITTER: Holford D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10424491 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature