Sedentary Work in Desk-Dominated Environments: A Data-Driven Intervention Using Intervention Mapping.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Since desk-dominated work environments facilitate sedentary behavior, office workers sit for 66% of their working days and only 8% succeed in interrupting their prolonged periods of sitting within the first 55 minutes. Yet stretches of long and uninterrupted sitting increase the likelihood of several chronic metabolic and cardiovascular diseases.

Objective

We therefore developed a computer-based app designed to interrupt periods of prolonged sitting among office employees.

Methods

When developing the intervention, we applied the intervention mapping protocol. This approach for the systematic design of theory and evidence-based behavior change programs consists of 6 steps: creation of a logic model of the problem, creation of a logic model of change, program

SUBMITTER: Berninger NM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7399954 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature