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Title: | A blended intervention to promote physical activity, health and work productivity among office employees using intervention mapping : a study protocol for a cluster-randomized controlled trial | Authors: | Sun, Y Wang, AW Yu, SY Hagger, MS Chen, XY Fong, SSM Zhang, CQ Huang, WY Baker, JS Dutheil, F Gao, Y |
Issue Date: | 2020 | Source: | BMC public health, 2020, v. 20, 994, p. 1-12 | Abstract: | Background: Regular participation in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) is related to decreased risk of morbidity and mortality. Among working populations, lack of MVPA may also be a risk factor for absenteeism and presenteeism. Both traditional workplace-based and web-based interventions have been suggested as being effective in promoting participation MVPA, health-related outcomes, and work-related productivity. However, several challenges limit their application in real world contexts. A 'blended' intervention approach combining the two intervention strategies is proposed to overcome these limitations. The proposed intervention aims to utilize the blended approach to increase participation in MVPA, health-related outcomes, and work productivity among inactive workers. Methods: The study will comprise of a three-group cluster randomized controlled trial (cluster-RCT), comprising a three-month actual intervention and a nine-month behavioral follow-up period. The three groups will be: a web-based intervention group, a blended intervention group combining the web-based components with face-to-face workshops and posters, and a control group. Physically inactive office employees (N = 495) from 33 companies (i.e., clusters) will be recruited and randomly assigned to the three groups by cluster randomization. The intervention mapping (IM) framework will be used for selecting and applying effective health behavioral theories and behavioral change techniques (BCTs) to the development, implementation and assessment of the intervention, which will be personally tailored. The primary outcome variable will be objectively-measured MVPA using an accelerometer. Secondary outcomes will consist of indices of health including adiposity, blood pressure, blood sugar, blood lipids, self-reported depression, anxiety, stress, health-related quality of life and work-related variables including absenteeism and presenteeism. Discussion: The proposed study adopts a robust blended intervention approach that is expected to overcome challenges in applying workplace-based and web-based interventions separately and yield larger effects in promoting MVPA participation, health-related outcomes and work productivity. Improvements in work productivity outcomes will be of particular interest to employers. If more effective, the new blended intervention has the potential to be implemented on a larger scale to benefit workplace populations. |
Keywords: | Physical activity Health promotion Work productivity Office employees Blended intervention Web-based intervention |
Publisher: | BioMed Central | Journal: | BMC public health | EISSN: | 1471-2458 | DOI: | 10.1186/s12889-020-09128-z | Rights: | © The Author(s). 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. The following publication Sun, Y., Wang, A. W., Yu, S. Y., Hagger, M. S., Chen, X. Y., Fong, S. S. M., . . . Gao, Y. (2020). A blended intervention to promote physical activity, health and work productivity among office employees using intervention mapping: A study protocol for a cluster-randomized controlled trial. Bmc Public Health, 20, 1-12 is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09128-z |
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