Perspectives on Integrating Activity Breaks into the Work Day: A Focus Group Study of University of Otago Employees Working in Sedentary Occupations

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Perspectives on Integrating Activity Breaks into the Work Day: A Focus Group Study of University of Otago Employees Working in Sedentary Occupations

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University of Otago

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Background: Prolonged sitting increases the risk of cardiometabolic disease. Regularly interrupting prolonged sitting with short bouts of activity has been shown to acutely lower postprandial glucose and lipid concentrations in a laboratory setting. However, more research is needed to find out how we can incorporate this pattern of activity into a workplace environment and what the most effective way would be to do this. Objective: To investigate perspectives on integrating regular activity b...

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Scholarly text / Thesis

Thesis level

Masters

Date created

2019

Creator

Hayr, Kirsty

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https://hdl.handle.net/10523/9112

Related subjects

Sedentary / Behaviour / Workplace / Activity / breaks / Perspectives

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