Standing Desks in a Grade 4 Classroom over the Full School Year.

ABSTRACT: School-aged children are spending increasingly long periods of time engaged in sedentary activities such as sitting. Recent school-based studies have examined the intervention effects of introducing standing desks into the classroom in the short and medium term. The aim of this repeated-measures crossover design study was to assess the sit-stand behaviour, waking sedentary time and physical activity, and musculoskeletal discomfort at the start and the end of a full school year following the provision of standing desks into a Grade 4 classroom. Accelerometry and musculoskeletal discomfort were measured in both standing and traditional desk conditions at the start and at the end of the school year. At both time points, when students used a standing desk, there was an increase in standing tim

SUBMITTER: Parry S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6801749 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature