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What Is This Study About? To find out if a short, easy-to-do resistance band workout can help people who work both at home and in the office feel stronger, less stressed, and more productive.
What Can Be learnt?
Two groups will be compared:
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
|---|---|---|---|
| Control | No Intervention | Usual routine | |
| Resistance band training | Experimental |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Resistance band training | Behavioral | Four-week resistance band training intervention (15 mins 3x per week). Written and video instructions on the exercises were provided inlcuding guidance on increasing resistance over the weeks. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Sit to stand | Number of sit to stands in 30 seconds - Higher score are positive | at baselines and then one week after the intervention ended |
| Push-up | Number of push ups in 30 seconds - Higher scores are positive | Baseline and one week after the intervention |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
|---|---|---|
| Stress | Perceived stress was measured using the 10 item Cohen-Perceived Stress Scale. This instrument is designed to measure psychological stress and to evaluate the stressful situations of daily life by measuring the degree an individual feels their life has been unpredictable, uncontrollable and overloaded during the past month. Questions were rated on a five-point Likert scale ranging from never (0) to almost always (4) with the ratings for each question summed to create an overall stress score. Higher scores indicate more perceived stress with the possible range of summed scores ranging from zero to 40. Scores of 13 are classified as average stress levels and scores of 20 or above indicate high stress levels. |
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Exclusion Criteria:
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| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| University of Glasgow | Glasgow | G12 8QQ | United Kingdom |
Annonymised participant data will be made available by the author upon request.
Data and study protocol will be made available as part of publication.
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| Baselines until one week after the intervention |
| Productivity | The Health and Work Questionnaire (HWQ) measures employee productivity and health. The survey consists of 24 questions (3 with sub-questions) used to create an overall HWQ score and six subscales; productivity, concentration/focus, supervisor relations, impatience/irritability, work satisfaction, and non-work satisfaction. Questions are rated on a 10-point Likert scale from a negative rating (1) to a positive rating (10). Scores for each subscale are calculated from the sum of responses to all the items comprising the subscale divided by the number of items in the subscale. An overall HWQ score is produced from the average of all six subscales. Scores closer to 10 indicate desirable productivity outcomes. | Baselines until one week after the intervention |
| Work engagement | The Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES) measures work engagement, which can be described as the opposite of burnout. The UWES-17 consists of 17 statements used to create an overall engagement score and three subscales: vigor, absorption, and dedication. Statements are rated on a 7-point Likert scale from never had this feeling (0) to always every day (6). Scores for each subscale are calculated from the sum of responses to all the items within that subscale, divided by the number of items in the subscale. An overall engagement score is produced from the average of all 17 subscales. Normative scores range from very low to very high, with very low scores for vigor, dedication, absorption and total engagement reported as ≤2.17, ≤1.60, ≤1.60 and ≤1.93, respectively, and very high scores reported as ≥5.61, ≥5.80, ≥5.36 and ≥5.54, respectively. | Baselines until one week after the intervention |