Carlos Cristi-Montero, Ricardo Martínez-Flores, Juan Pablo Espinoza-Puelles, Laura Favero-Ramirez, Natalia Zurita-Corvalan, Ignacio Castillo Cañete, Jaime Leppe, Gerson Ferrari, Kabir P Sadarangani, Jorge Cancino-López, Sam Hernandez-Jaña, Tuillang Yuing Farias, Vanilson Batista Lemes, Fernando Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Caroline Brand
BACKGROUND: Excessive sedentary time has been negatively associated with several health outcomes, and physical activity alone does not seem to fully counteract these consequences. This panorama emphasizes the essential of sedentary time interruption programs. "The Up Project" seeks to assess the effectiveness of two interventions, one incorporating active breaks led by a professional and the other utilizing a computer application (self-led), of both equivalent duration and intensity. These interventions will be compared with a control group to evaluate their impact on physical activity levels, sedentary time, stress perception, occupational pain, and cardiometabolic risk factors among office workers...
2024: Frontiers in Public Health