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Home working has increased due to COVID-19, but little is known about how this change has impacted the health risk behaviour of elevated sedentary time. The aim of this cross-sectional exploratory study was to assess occupational sitting behaviour when working at home, and use the Capability Opportunity Motivation-Behaviour (COM-B) model to identify influences on this behaviour. University staff (n=267; 69% female; 92% white) who were predominantly working from home completed a questionnaire to assess sitting time, sitting breaks, demographic and occupational characteristics, and a 7-item COM-B questionnaire and open-ended questions to assess influences on time spent sitting whilst working from home. Data were analysed descriptively, a repeated measures ANOVA was used to determine differences in the COM-B items, and binary logistic regression was used to examine predictors of sitting time. Staff spent on average 89.5% (SD=17.1) of their time sitting whilst working at home, and took an average of 1.36 (1.38) sitting breaks per hour. There were significant and meaningful differences in the influence of the COM factors on ability and willingness to reduce sitting behaviour (p
Original language | English |
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Number of pages | 1 |
Journal | Occupational Health Science |
Early online date | 29 Nov 2022 |
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Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 29 Nov 2022 |
Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- sitting behaviour
- intervention development
- occupational
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Are we working (too) comfortably? Developing and testing an evidence-informed toolkit to reduce sedentary behaviour when working at home
Sarah Morton (Speaker), Ailsa Niven (Contributor) & Claire Fitzsimons (Assessor)
2023Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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