Monitoring Occupational Sitting, Standing, and Stepping in Office Employees With the W@W-App and the MetaWearC Sensor: Validation Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Replacing occupational sitting time with active tasks has several proposed health benefits for office employees. Mobile phones and motion sensors can provide objective information in real time on occupational sitting behavior. However, the validity and feasibility of using mobile health (mHealth) devices to quantify and modify occupational sedentary time is unclear.

Objective

The aim of this study is to validate the new Walk@Work-Application (W@W-App)-including an external motion sensor (MetaWearC) attached to the thigh-for measuring occupational sitting, standing, and stepping in free-living conditions against the activPAL3M, the current gold-standard, device-based measure for postural behaviors.

Methods

In total, 20 office workers (16 [80%] females; mean

SUBMITTER: Bort-Roig J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7435616 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature