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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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Outcomes |
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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 |