What strategies should workers do to sit less and move more?
Walking meeting? Lunch away from the desk? Stretch breaks? We know from our national implementation trial that BeUpstanding works to help workers to sit less and move more (see our previous blog post to find out more). However, it is unclear just which strategies workers used to sit less and move more. We also wanted to find out how strategy usage changed following intervention, and how this related to changes in work activity and sitting. Are some strategies better than others? Our recent article from our BeUpstanding national implementation trial examined these questions. What did we do? In BeUpstanding, staff are asked to complete surveys before and at the end of the 8-week program. As part of these surveys, they are asked to report on their sitting and activity behaviours at work, including their percentage of worktime sitting and moving, and the percentage of work sitting that is accrued in bouts of 30 minutes or more (what we consider “prolonged sitting”). They are also asked to report on their usage (from never to always/nearly always) of 21 sit less / move more strategies, with 13 of these strategies emphasising the ‘move more’ component. These strategies may or may not be the…
