Evaluation of a Workplace Active Rest Program in Office Workers With Comparison of a Prospective and Retrospective Survey.

ABSTRACT: Physical activity-related workplace interventions can be counterstrategies for physical inactivity due to office work. Newly introduced programs should be evaluated for success. This study aimed to evaluate the intervention of a workplace active rest program and to compare a prospective and retrospective design of evaluation. A Germany-wide multicenter evaluation of a 3-month workplace active rest program (30 min, once a week) was carried out at 14 locations with a longitudinal pre/post design by means of an anonymous questionnaire (n_pre = 405, n_post = 369). The participants' program-related changes in targeted characteristics regarding posture, function, complaints and physical awareness were collected with a questionnaire in a prospective design and afterward retros

SUBMITTER: Lehmann H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10752044 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature