Clinical trial NCT02960750: Effectiveness of a Workplace "Sit Less and Move More" Web-based Program in Spanish Office Employees (Walk@WorkSpain)
Official title: Effectiveness of a Workplace "Sit Less and Move More" Web-based Program (Walk@WorkSpain) on Occupational Sedentary Behavior, Habitual Physical Activity, Physical Risk Factors for Chronic Disease and Efficiency-related Outcomes in Spanish Office Employees
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Sedentary Lifestyle
Workplace
Quality of Life
Intervention Study
Keywords: workplace
sedentary behavior
physical activity
physical risk factors
mental well-being
presenteeism
work productivity
activity-related energy expenditures
Lead sponsor: University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Spain
name: University Ramon Llull
name: University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
name: University of Vigo
name: The University of Queensland
name: University of Leeds
First posted: 2016-11-10
Enrollment: 264
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 65
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: This study assesses the short and mid-term impacts of a workplace web-based intervention (Walk@WorkSpain, W@WS) on self-reported occupational sitting time, step counts, activity-related energy expenditure, physical risk factors for chronic disease and efficiency-related outcomes in Spanish office employees. Half of participants had access to the W@WS website program while the other half was asked to maintain habitual behaviour.

Detailed description: Rising numbers of people have to sit for long hours every day especially for work and transport (3401184). This sedentary pattern that has been detrimentally associated with obesity and cardiovascular disease markers (4604082). However, replacing as little as 10 minutes of sedentary time with the same amount of light or moderate physical activity is associated with substantial health benefits (i.e. reduction of the metabolic syndrome) (26635358).

Because eighty percent of adults in developed countries spend one third of their working day doing sedentary, desk-based tasks (24603203) -representing a high exposure to this established health risk- displacing occupational sitting with physical activity may be a feasible option for improving office employees´ health and therefore public health (26984326).

In this context, there is a need to develop and evaluate translational research, based on theoretically-derived strategies, that can be successfully embedded into workplaces (26984326).

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Office employees (university administrative and academic staff) with low and moderate physical activity levels (0 to 3,000 MET·min·wk-1 according to the International Physical Activity Questionnaire)

Exclusion Criteria:

* Highly active office employees (\>3,000 MET·min·wk-1 according to the International Physical Activity Questionnaire)

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change from baseline occupational sitting time (minutes/day) at post-intervention (19 weeks) and two months follow-up.
timeFrame: Baseline,19 weeks, two months follow-up
measure: Change from baseline step counts (steps/day) at post-intervention (19 weeks) and two months follow-up
timeFrame: Baseline,19 weeks, two months follow-up
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change from baseline waist circumference (cms) at post-intervention (19 weeks) and two months follow-up
timeFrame: Baseline,19 weeks, two months follow-up
measure: Change from baseline body mass index (kgs/m-2) at post-intervention (19 weeks) and two months follow-up
timeFrame: Baseline, 19 weeks, two months follow-up
measure: Change from baseline blood pressure (mmHg) at post-intervention (19 weeks) and two months follow-up
timeFrame: Baseline, 19 weeks, two months follow-up
measure: Change from baseline mental well-being (WEMWBS scale scores) at post-intervention (19 weeks) and two months follow-up
timeFrame: Baseline, 19 weeks, two months follow-up
measure: Change from baseline presenteeism (WLQ scores) at post-intervention (19 weeks) and two months follow-up
timeFrame: Baseline, 19 weeks, two months follow-up
measure: Change from baseline % work productivity loss (WLQ index score) at post-intervention (19 weeks) and two months follow-up
timeFrame: Baseline, 19 weeks, two months follow-up
measure: Change from baseline activity-related energy expenditure (METs-min/week) at post-intervention (19 weeks) and two months follow-up.
timeFrame: Baseline, 19 weeks, two months follow-up
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Vic
country: Spain
facility: University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia
state: Barcelona
city: Pontevedra
country: Spain
facility: University of Vigo
state: Galicia
city: Vitoria
country: Spain
facility: Vasque Country University
state: Vasque Country
city: Barcelona
country: Spain
facility: University Ramon Llull
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia
name: Anna Puig-Ribera, Exercise and Health Sciences
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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