Should I sit or stand: likelihood of adherence to messages about reducing sitting time.

ABSTRACT:

Background

High population levels of sitting is contributing to high rates of chronic health problems. Therefore, the aim of this study was to identify the sitting time messages with the greatest potential to reduce sitting behaviour, as well as identify how this may differ according to demographic, behavioural and psychosocial characteristics.

Methods

Australian adults (N = 1460) were asked to report the likelihood that they would adhere to seven messages promoting reduced sitting time and two messages promoting increased physical activity (from 'not at all likely' to 'very likely'). Ordinal regression models were used to compare messages on the likelihood of adherence and whether likelihood of adherence differed as a function of demographic, psychosocial and behavioural ch

SUBMITTER: Alley SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6610814 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature