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Table 1 Intervention strategies employed during the first three months of the study

From: Evaluating the effectiveness of organisational-level strategies with or without an activity tracker to reduce office workers’ sitting time: a cluster-randomised trial

Strategy

Week 1

Weeks 3–4

Week 6

Weeks 7–8

Weeks 9–10

Weeks 11–13

Organisational

Introductory email to announce program from champion

+ workplace summary activity data

+ links to relevant news articles

Information booklet including:

• Health impacts of sitting

• Tips to ‘Stand Up, Sit Less and Move More’

First tip email from championa

Tip: have a standing or walking meeting

Second tip emailb

Tip: walking meetings increase creativity

Third tip email

Focus on increasing step count

+ Table of step count classifications compared to baseline averagec

+ Walking step count guide of locations around Sydney officed

Tip: walking meetings increase step count

Fourth tip email

Focus on standing more and sitting less outside of work

Tips:

• Walk during commercial breaks

• Do household chores while watching TV

• Stand to read newspaper

• Hand wash car

• Move around house when checking emails and texts on phone

• Take your coffee standing

• Stand up every time there is a goal in the World Cup

• Stand up while commuting to work

Fifth tip email

Focus on using the stairs

Tip: take the stairs instead of the lift

Individual

Activity tracker to Group ORG + Tracker participants

Baseline activity monitor feedback sent

    
  1. asent in week 1 for location B; bsent in week 4 for location B; cstep count classifications from Tudor-Locke 2004 [61]; dlocation A only