The Effect of Flooring on Office Workers' Health and Behaviors

Healthy Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Effect of Flooring on Office Workers' Health and Behaviors

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Withdrawn

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04130932
• Other study ID #: 19-006733
• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: December 1, 2020
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2021

Study information

• Verified date: October 2021
• Source: Mayo Clinic
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Researchers are trying to better understand how offices and workspaces influence people's performance, behavior and health during the course of weeks and over long periods of time.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Withdrawn
• Enrollment: 0
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2021
• Est. primary completion date: July 31, 2021
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 60 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Ability to provide informed consent

• Must be adults between the ages of 18 and 60

• Ability to relocate to the Well Living Lab for 9 consecutive weeks

• Full-time Mayo Clinic employees (35+ hours per week)

• Report working a sedentary job (e.g., sit for >= 50% of their work time).

• Have a working mobile phone that can receive text messages

• Must be present for 80% of the study (minimum of 4 days per week)

Exclusion Criteria:

• Individuals who are shift-workers

• Individuals diagnosed with vascular diseases (i.e., Raynaud's disease, peripheral artery disease, etc.)

• Individuals with diagnosed neurological and psychiatric disorders that may have physical limitations

• Drug (illegal or prescription narcotic), nicotine, or alcohol dependency

• Women who are lactating, pregnant or intend to become pregnant during the duration of the study

• Individuals who are taking medications (either prescribed or over-the-counter) which may affect comfort levels (e.g., opiate based medications)

• Working in occupation requiring standing/stepping >50% of work time

• Report < 1 year at current job

• Hospitalization from either a physical or mental disorder in the past six months

• History of cardiovascular, pulmonary, metabolic, neurological, or orthopedic limitations that would prohibit occupational physical activity (e.g., standing, stepping, etc.)

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Healthy

Intervention

Other:
• Ergonomic flooring
Specially designed flooring system to optimize ergonomics of participants

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Mayo Clinic in Rochester	Rochester	Minnesota

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Mayo Clinic

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Sickness, absence, presenteeism	Work Limitations Questionnaire	9 weeks

External Links

•   Mayo Clinic Clinical Trials