Reducing sitting at work: process evaluation of the SMArT Work (Stand More At Work) intervention

Stand More AT Work (SMArT Work): using the behaviour change wheel to develop an intervention to reduce sitting time in the workplace

BACKGROUND Sitting (sedentary behaviour) is widespread among desk-based office workers and a high level of sedentary behaviour is a risk factor for poor health. Reducing workplace sitting time is therefore an important prevention strategy. Interventions are more likely to be effective if they are theory and evidence-based. The Behaviour Change Wheel (BCW) provides a framework for intervention d...

Practitioner Evaluation at Work

Practitioner involvement in evaluation, research, development, and other forms of disciplined inquiry that are small scale, local, grounded, and carried out by professionals who directly deliver those services is embraced across a wide range of professions as essential to good professional practice. However, little is known about the character, homogeneity or diversity, outcomes, motives, and p...

Performance at work: Identifying the smart workforce

Background to sitting at work: research-based requirements for the design of work seats.

The body's responses to sitting are complex and involve the anatomy and physiology of the sitter as well as the structure of the seat, the desk and the environment. In the light of recent research, the major reactions of the spine, the muscles and the spinal discs are discussed. Their interactions when adopting sitting postures are described. Reasons are given why certain sitting postures are t...

Fixed-term work and violence at work.

OBJECTIVES This study investigated the effect of a fixed-term job contract on encounters of violence at work. We assumed that fixed-term employees encountered more violence or threats of violence at their work than permanent employees. METHODS This study is based on 3 large statistical data sets: (a) the Work and Health surveys carried out by the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health in 19...