Method inventory for assessment of physical activity at VDU workplaces.
Physical inactivity and prolonged static work tasks may seriously affect health. There are numerous indications that promoting physical activity (PA) at sedentary workplaces can reduce these health risks. However, PA interventions have so far been documented rarely on the basis of medical parameters...
| Publicado en: | Work Vol. 41; pp. 2355 - 2360 |
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| Formato: | clinical trial research tables/charts randomized controlled trial Journal Article |
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Sage Publications Inc.
2012 Supplement
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=104522960&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 104522960 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 10519815 3RC jtl: Work issn: 10519815 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2012 Supplement vid: 41 pid: 344 pub: Sage Publications Inc. place: Thousand Oaks, California artinfo: ui: 104522960 71928595 10.3233/wor-2012-0464-2355 104522960 ppf: 2355 ppct: 5 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Method inventory for assessment of physical activity at VDU workplaces. aug: au: Soares, Marcelo M. Jacobs, Karen Ellegast, Rolf Weber, Britta Mahlberg, Rena affil: Institute for Occupational Safety and Health of the German Social Accident Insurance (IFA) Division Ergonomics - Physical Environmental Factors, Alte Heerstraße 111, 53757 Sankt Augustin, Germany sug: subj: Physical Activity Evaluation Work Environment Occupational Health Health Promotion Methods Computer Terminals Human Pilot Studies Male Female Randomized Controlled Trials Clinical Trials Questionnaires Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test Two-Way Analysis of Variance Descriptive Statistics Pretest-Posttest Design Sitting Standing Time Factors Male Female ab: Physical inactivity and prolonged static work tasks may seriously affect health. There are numerous indications that promoting physical activity (PA) at sedentary workplaces can reduce these health risks. However, PA interventions have so far been documented rarely on the basis of medical parameters. Effects on the PA behavior are often studied only through the methods of subjective self-assessment. For this reason an extensive method inventory was developed consisting of objective PA assessment methods and various methods for documenting PA related health outcomes. The developed method inventory has been tested in a pilot intervention study at office workplaces. The current paper presents and discusses a part of the applied inventory. The methods considered here demonstrated several positive intervention effects: intervention subjects were more active, felt better, increased muscle strength and showed improvements in resting heart rate and BMI. Not all data has been analyzed to date, but the preliminary results suggest that most of the investigated methods turned out to be suitable for the documentation of intervention effects. Among the methods for which no effects were found, the question remains whether this is due to a lack of sensitivity of the method or due to aspects related to the study design. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: clinical trial research tables/charts randomized controlled trial Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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