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A 6-week workplace intervention successfully strengthened physical activity habits in office workers. While habit formation improved, average weekly step counts did not significantly increase, indicating a need for further research.

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  • Behavioral Science
  • Exercise Physiology

Background:

  • Promoting workplace physical activity is crucial for employee health and well-being.
  • Existing interventions often lack a strong foundation in behavioral theory.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and pilot a 6-week habit-based intervention to foster workplace physical activity habits.
  • To assess changes in habit strength and weekly step counts post-intervention.

Main Methods:

  • A 12-week single-arm study involving 20 sedentary office workers.
  • Participants received 10 top tips for habit formation and wore pedometers.
  • Repeated measures ANOVA compared habit strength and step counts at baseline, 1 week, and 6 weeks post-intervention.

Main Results:

  • Significant increases in workplace physical activity habit strength were observed from baseline to 1 week and maintained at 6 weeks post-intervention.
  • No significant changes in average weekly step counts were detected at any time point.

Conclusions:

  • A habit-based intervention can effectively strengthen workplace physical activity habits.
  • Further research with larger cohorts is recommended to validate these findings.