- Title
- The effect of an e-health intervention designed to reduce prolonged occupational sitting on mean arterial pressure
- Creator
- Mainsbridge, Casey; Cooley, Dean; Fraser, Sharon; Pedersen, Scott
- Date
- 2014
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/168935
- Identifier
- vital:13916
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1097/JOM.0000000000000243
- Identifier
- ISBN:1076-2752
- Abstract
- Objective: To evaluate the effect of a workplace health intervention designed to reduce prolonged occupational sitting on the mean arterial pressure (MAP) of desk-based employees. Methods: This randomized controlled trial involved an experimental group who received an e-health intervention and a control group who did not. The 13-week intervention passively prompted participants to stand and engage in short bouts of office-based physical activity by interrupting prolonged occupational sitting time periodically throughout the workday. Mean arterial pressure was measured at pretest and posttest. Results: Between pretest and posttest the experimental group significantly reduced their MAP, whereas MAP in the control group did not. Conclusions: A workplace e-health intervention designed to reduce prolonged occupational sitting was effective in decreasing MAP in desk-based employees.
- Publisher
- American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
- Relation
- Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine Vol. 56, no. 11 (2014), p. 1189-1194
- Rights
- Copyright American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
- Rights
- This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1110 Nursing; 1117 Public Health and Health Services
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