- Title
- Should I sit or stand: likelihood of adherence to messages about reducing sitting time
- Creator
- Alley, Stephanie J.; Vandelanotte, Corneel; Duncan, Mitch J.; Short, Camille E.; Maher, Jaclyn P.; Schoeppe, Stephanie; Rebar, Amanda L.
- Relation
- NHMRC.1090517 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1090517
- Relation
- BMC Public Health Vol. 19, no. 871
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7189-z
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- Background: High population levels of sitting is contributing to high rates of chronic health problems. Therefore, the aim of this study was to identify the sitting time messages with the greatest potential to reduce sitting behaviour, as well as identify how this may differ according to demographic, behavioural and psychosocial characteristics. Methods: Australian adults (N = 1460) were asked to report the likelihood that they would adhere to seven messages promoting reduced sitting time and two messages promoting increased physical activity (from 'not at all likely' to 'very likely'). Ordinal regression models were used to compare messages on the likelihood of adherence and whether likelihood of adherence differed as a function of demographic, psychosocial and behavioural characteristics. Results: Likelihood of adherence was highest for the messages, 'Stand and take a break from sitting as frequently as you can' (83% respectively) and 'Avoid sitting for more than 10 hours during the entire day' (82%) and was significantly lower for the message, 'Sit as little as possible on all days of the week' (46%) compared to all other messages. Conclusions: To increase likelihood of adherence messages should be specific, achievable and promote healthy alternatives to sitting (e.g. standing). Messages promoting standing as a healthy alternative to sitting may be more likely to engage people with high sitting behaviour and messages promoting physical activity may be more likely to engage males and retired adults.
- Subject
- health promotion; campaign; mass media; sitting time; sedentary behaviour; behaviour change
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1408415
- Identifier
- uon:35837
- Identifier
- ISSN:1471-2458
- Rights
- © The Author(s). 2019 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
- Language
- eng
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