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Aoife Stephenson1, Suzanne M McDonough, Marie H Murphy
1Centre for Physical Activity and Health Research, Faculty of Life and Health Sciences, Ulster University, Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland (Dr Stephenson and Dr Murphy); Centre for Health and Rehabilitation Technologies, Institute of Nursing and Health Research, Faculty of Life and Health Sciences, Ulster University, Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland (Dr Stephenson, Dr McDonough and Dr Wilson); Honorary Research Professor, School of Physiotherapy, University of Otago, Otago, New Zealand (Dr McDonough); School of Computing, Faculty of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment, Ulster University, Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland (Dr Nugent); School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland (Dr Wilson); School of Applied Sciences, Edinburgh Napier University, Sighthill Campus, Sighthill Court, Edinburgh, Scotland (Dr Mair).
Objective:
Employee and employer views regarding how technology-supported strategies can best meet their needs to reduce occupational sitting are not well known. This study explored target user and key stakeholder beliefs regarding strategies to reduce occupational sitting focusing on technology-supported approaches.
Methods:
Nine focus groups and two interviews (employees, n = 27; employers, n = 19; board members, n = 2) were conducted, transcribed, and analyzed thematically.
Results:
The main barrier to reducing sitting was job-related tasks taking primary priority. Intervention designers should consider individual preferences, environmental factors, judgmental culture, productivity concerns, and staff knowledge. Technology-supported strategies such as smartphone applications, computer software, wearables, and emails were deemed to be useful tools to provide prompts and allow behavioral self-monitoring in an easily individualized manner.
Conclusions:
Technology-supported strategies were seen to be valuable approaches and might fruitfully be incorporated into future interventions to reduce sitting time.
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