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Brief Standing Desk Intervention to Reduce Sedentary Behavior at a Physical Activity Conference in 2016
Jason J Wilson1, Deepti Adlakha1, Conor Cunningham1
1Jason J. Wilson, Conor Cunningham, Chris R. Cardwell, and Mark A. Tully are with the UK Clinical Research Collaboration Centre of Excellence for Public Health, Centre for Public Health, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom. Deepti Adlakha is with the School of Natural and Built Environment, Queen's University Belfast. Paul Best is with the Centre for Evidence and Social Innovation, School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work, Queen's University Belfast. Aoife Stephenson and Marie H. Murphy are with the Sport and Exercise Sciences Research Institute, School of Sport, Ulster University, Newtownabbey, United Kingdom.
Objectives:
To examine the impact of environmental restructuring on attendees at a physical activity conference when provided with standing tables and given point-of-decision prompts (PODPs; e.g., health messages).
Methods:
This randomized controlled trial took place at the Health-Enhancing Physical Activity Europe 2016 conference in Belfast, United Kingdom, September 2016. We randomly allocated 14 oral sessions to either the intervention group (standing tables + PODPs; n = 7) or the control group (PODPs only; n = 7). Conference volunteers discreetly recorded the number of attendees standing and sitting and estimated the number of women and attendees aged 40 years or older.
Results:
There was a significant difference (P = .04) in the proportion of attendees standing during the intervention (mean = 16.8%; SD = 9.5%) than during control sessions (mean = 6.0%; SD = 5.8%). There was no differential response between gender and age groups in the proportion standing during intervention sessions (P > .05).
Conclusions:
Providing standing tables may be a feasible and effective strategy to reduce sitting at physical activity conferences.
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