Table 4.
Self-reported perceptions about work, work-related energy, and feelings at work at baseline, 4, and 19 weeks post-installation of sit-stand desks (intervention), in the Opt to Stand Study, Sydney, Australia. .1
| Question | Control |
Intervention |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baseline |
4 weeks |
19 weeks |
Baseline |
4 weeks |
19 weeks |
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| N | Mean (SE) | N | Mean (SE) | N | Mean (SE) | F | p | N | Mean (SE) | N | Mean (SE) | N | Mean (SE) | F | p | |
| The physical working conditions at my location are satisfactory | 9 | 3.67 (1.22) | 6 | 3.67 (1.50) | 6 | 3.83 (1.56) | 1.58 | 0.30 | 8 | 3.25 (0.37) | 10 | 4.30 (0.13) | 5 | 4.60 (0.13) | 3.09 | 0.11 |
| I am able to sustain the level of energy I need throughout the work day | 9 | 3.22 (1.07) | 6 | 3.00 (1.22) | 6 | 3.83 (1.56) | 1.57 | 0.30 | 8 | 2.63 (0.32) | 10 | 3.90 (0.11) | 5 | 3.20 (0.11) | 6.44 | 0.02 |
| I feel positive at work most of the time | 9 | 3.78 (1.26) | 6 | 3.67 (1.50) | 6 | 3.50 (1.43) | 1.64 | 0.28 | 8 | 3.25 (0.25) | 10 | 3.70 (0.09) | 5 | 4.00 (0.09) | 2.61 | 0.15 |
| There are no substantial obstacles at work to doing my job well | 9 | 3.56 (1.19) | 6 | 3.50 (1.43) | 6 | 3.67 (1.50) | 1.55 | 0.31 | 8 | 3.63 (0.18) | 10 | 3.80 (0.06) | 5 | 4.00 (0.06) | 3.46 | 0.09 |
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Questions were rated from 1 “strongly disagree” to 5 “strongly agree”; mean scores shown here, where a score of “4” means the average was “agree,” or 5 “strongly agree”; increasing scores indicate increasing agreement.