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. 2018 Jun 20;2018(6):CD010912. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD010912.pub4
Methods Random allocation
Study duration: 13 days
Dropout: 32%
Location: Canada
Recruitment: email sent by human resource personnel on the researchers' behalf to potential participants.
Participants Population: office workers employed in the head office of one large private company in Canada
High personal/high contextual norm (n = 35), high personal/low contextual norm (n = 36), low personal/high contextual norm (n = 35) and low personal/low contextual norm (n = 36)
Demographics:
Mean age in years: 40.30 (SD 12.02)
66% of participants were females
Interventions Duration: 10 days
High personal/high contextual norm vs. high personal/ ow contextual norm vs. low personal/high contextual norm vs. low personal/low contextual norm
Outcomes Outcome name, measurement time (units of measurement)
  • Prolonged sitting time (minutes/workday) assessed by self report

  • Standing, walking, and stair use were reported as number of times during the workday assessed by self report

Notes This work was supported by a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (first author) from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Low risk Participants were manually randomly assigned using random number tables to one of four conditions.
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Unclear risk Not reported
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) All outcomes Unclear risk Not reported
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) All outcomes Unclear risk Not reported
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) All outcomes High risk Very high dropout (32% attrition)
Selective reporting (reporting bias) Low risk No protocol. All the outcomes mentioned in the method section were reported.
Baseline comparability/ imbalance Unclear risk Not reported
Validity of outcome measure Unclear risk Not reported