Multicomponent intervention to reduce daily sedentary time: a randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To test the efficacy of a multicomponent technology intervention for reducing daily sedentary time and improving cardiometabolic disease risk among sedentary, overweight university employees.

Design

Blinded, randomised controlled trial.

Setting

A large south-eastern university in the USA.

Participants

49 middle-aged, primarily female, sedentary and overweight adults working in sedentary jobs enrolled in the study. A total of 40 participants completed the study.

Interventions

Participants were randomised to either: (1) an intervention group (N=23; 47.6+9.9 years; 94.1% female; 33.2+4.5 kg/m(2)); (2) or wait-list control group (N=17; 42.6+8.9 years; 86.9% female; 31.7+4.9 kg/m(2)). The intervention group received a theory-based, internet-deliver

SUBMITTER: Carr LJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3808782 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature