- Title
- Understanding occupational sitting: prevalence, correlates and moderating effects in Australian employees
- Creator
- De Cocker, Katrien; Duncan, Mitch J.; Short, Camille; van Uffelen, Jannique G. Z.; Vandelanotte, Corneel
- Relation
- NHMRC.519778
- Relation
- Preventive Medicine Vol. 67, p. 288-294
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2014.07.031
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- Objective: To (1) compare occupational sitting between different socio-demographic, health-related, work-related and psychosocial categories, (2) identity socio-demographic, health-related, work-related and psychosocial correlates of occupational sitting, and (3) examine the moderating effect of work-related factors in the relation between correlates and occupational sitting. Methods: Randomly-selected Australian adults completed a web-based survey assessing socio-demographic (country of birth, gender, age, education, income), health-related (general health, weight, physical activity), work-related (employment status, occupational task, occupational classification) and sedentary-specific psychosocial (social norm, social support, self-efficacy, control, advantages, disadvantage, intention) factors, and occupational sitting-time. t-tests, ANOVAs and multiple linear regression analyses were conducted (in 2013) on a sample of employees (n = 993). Results: Respondents sat on average for 3.75 (SD = 2.45) h/day during work. Investigated correlates explained 41% of the variance in occupational sitting. More occupational sitting was associated with being male, being younger, higher education and income, part-time and full-time employment, sedentary job tasks, white-collar/professional occupations, higher BMI, and perceiving more advantages of sitting less at work. Employment status and occupational classification moderated the association between control to sit less and occupational sitting. A lack of control to sit less was associated with higher occupational sitting in part-time and full-time workers, but not in casual workers; and in white-collar and professional workers, but not in blue-collar workers. Conclusions: Most important contributors to occupational sitting were work-related and socio-demographic correlates. More research is needed to confirm present results.
- Subject
- sedentary behaviour; cross-sectional study; workplace; online survey
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1293902
- Identifier
- uon:18701
- Identifier
- ISSN:0091-7435
- Language
- eng
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