NCT04082624

Workplace Wellness: Improving Your Experience at Work

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 116 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Victoria · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

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.

Conditions

• Sedentary Behavior
• Obesity

Interventions

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

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-09-01
• Primary completion: 2015-04-01
• Completion: 2015-04-01
• First posted: 2019-09-09
• Last updated: 2019-09-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada