Workplace Wellness: Improving Your Experience at Work

Obesity Clinical Trial

Official title:

Workplace Wellness: Improving Your Experience at Work

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04082624
• Other study ID #: 13-108
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: September 2014
• Est. completion date: April 2015

Study information

• Verified date: September 2019
• Source: University of Victoria
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The primary objective of study was to compare affective (i.e., highlighted emotional benefits), instrumental (i.e., highlighted other health benefits), and self-regulation (i.e., demonstrated ways to plan, set goals, etc.) interventions in terms of their ability to motivate less sitting in the workplace. Research of this type is important because people sit for long periods of time at work which adversely affects their health and productivity.

It was hypothesized that the affective and self-regulation groups would sit less than the instrumental and control groups based on evidence indicating that affective attitude (i.e., emotional evaluation of the behavior) and self-regulation techniques tend to predict behavior.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 116
• Est. completion date: April 2015
• Est. primary completion date: April 2015
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• From a local workplace in Victoria

• Full-time employee (i.e., greater than 35 hours per week)

• Reported over 5.5 hours of sitting per day at work

• Agreed to attend the 3 intervention sessions

Exclusion Criteria:

• Not from a local workplace in Victoria

• Not a full-time employee (i.e., 35 hours or less per week)

• Reported less than 5.5 hours of sitting per day at work

• Did not agree to attend the 3 intervention sessions

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Obesity
• Sedentary Behavior

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Nutrition condition
Received nutritional information in in-person PowerPoint presentations.
• Affective condition
Received information about affective benefits of less sitting in the workplace in in-person PowerPoint presentations.
• Instrumental condition
Received information about instrumental benefits of less sitting in the workplace in in-person PowerPoint presentations.
• Self-regulation condition
Learned how to self-regulate behavior to sit less in the workplace in in-person PowerPoint presentations.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Canada	Behavioural Medicine Laboratory	Victoria	British Columbia

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Victoria	Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Canada, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Sitting time	Average hours of sitting time per day at work	Twelve weeks post-baseline