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Texas A&M Ergonomics Center Mark Benden CPE, PhD
For Adam Pickens, MPH, PhD
6-Month Follow-Up: Comparison of Sit-to-Stand and Stand-Biased
Desks in a Call Center
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How do we get people to sit less?
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Stand-biased Sit-stand Adjustable
Stand-capable
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Baseline 3 months 6 months
X X X
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X
X X
Study Design
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Data Collection
Online survey Accelerometers
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STAND-BIASED GROUP SIT-TO-STAND GROUP
48 employees contacted 50 employees contacted
45 enrolled in the study 46 enrolled in the study
32 measured at 3 months 33 measured at 3 months
13 lost to follow-up 13 lost to follow-up
3 lost to follow-up
29 measured at 6 months
10 lost to follow-up
23 measured at 6 months
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Study Population
• 67% female
• Average age 29-35
• 59% achieving moderate or high PA
• 43% normal weight BMI
• 22% African American, 70% white
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Baseline Data
Sit-to-
stand
group
(n=45)
Stand-biased
group
(n=46)
Seated
control
group
(n=47)
% time Sedentary 79% 72% 78%
Steps per minute 3.7 5.0 4.7
Calories per minute 1.8 1.9 1.8
% time self reported sitting 75% 65% 91%
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Generalized Linear Mixed Models
• Statistically significant:
• Age
• Race
• BMI
• Not statistically significant:
• Workstation
• Gender
• Time
• Statistically significant:
• Workstation
• BMI
• Not statistically significant:
• Gender
• Time
• Age
• Race
% Time sedentary % Time seated
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normal weight overweight obese
s2s SB seated s2s SB seated s2s SB seated
Reported proportion of workday spent seated by workstation type and BMI category
s2s: sit-to-stand SB: stand-biased
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• 76% of time sedentary
• 4.2 steps per minute
• 78% of time sitting
– 1 hour 2 minutes less than seated users
• 75% of time sedentary
• 5.2 steps per minute
• 67% of time sitting
– 1 hour 55 minutes less than seated users
After 6 Months
Sit-stand adjustable Stand-biased
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Summary
Standing habits at 6 months for all stand-capable desk users (n=52)
% of Population that reported standing at all 88%
Average % of time reported standing 29%
(range 0-100%)
Average transitions reported from seated to
standing per day
3.1
(range 1-10)
* Combined sit-stand and stand-biased participants
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Subjective Feedback
Reasons to stand
1) Increased body comfort (74%)
2) To stay alert (64%)
3) To burn more calories (52%)
Reasons not to stand
1) None (49%)
2) Decreased body comfort (26%)
3) Energy required (9%)
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Subjective Feedback
• 91% would make the switch again
• 49% experienced increased focus and alertness
• 40% experienced increased levels of energy
• 29% experienced increased productivity
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Discomfort
• Statistically significant differences in pain prevalence between standing participants and seated controls
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Initial Productivity Data
2.21 2.24 2.33
2.08 2.13
1.95
1.78 1.69
1.58
1.37 1.47
1.33
0
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
3
Feb March April May June July August Sep
AVG Monthly Successful Encounters per Hour by Health Coach Type
Standing HC
Sitting HC
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Questions?