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Design, rationale, and analysis plan for the Stand Up for Health trial in contact centres: a stepped wedge feasibility study
Ruth Jepson
The University of Edinburgh
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ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9446-445X
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Background: Contact centres are one of the most sedentary workplaces, with employees spending a very high proportion of their working day sitting down. About a quarter of contact centre staff regularly experience musculoskeletal health problems due to high levels of sedentary behaviour, including lower back pain. There have been no previous randomised studies specifically aiming to reduce sedentary behaviour in contact centre staff. To address this gap, the Stand Up for Health (SUH) study aims to test the feasibility and acceptability of a complex theory-based intervention to reduce sedentary behaviour in contact centres. Methods: The Stand Up for Health study has a stepped wedge cluster randomised trial design, which is a pragmatic design whereby clusters (contact centres) are randomised to time points at which they will begin to receive the intervention. All contact centre staff have the opportunity to experience the intervention. To minimise the resource burden in this feasibility study, data collection is not continuous, but undertaken on a selective number of occasions, so the stepped wedge design is “incomplete”. Eleven contact centres in England and Scotland have been recruited, and the sample size is approximately 27 per centre (270 in total. The statistical analysis will predominantly focus on assessing feasibility, including the calculation of recruitment rates and rates of attrition. Exploratory analysis will be performed to compare objectively measured sedentary time in the workplace (measured using an activPAL™ device) between intervention and control conditions using a linear mixed effects regression model. Discussion: This is the first stepped wedge feasibility study seeking to reduce sedentary behaviour in call centres. We employ an incomplete stepped wedge design to restrict data collection to certain time points to make data collection feasible. This trial will potentially inform the design of a future large multi-centre stepped wedge trial.
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Study Protocol
Design, rationale, and analysis plan for the Stand Up for Health trial in contact centres: a stepped wedge feasibility study
Ruth Jepson
The University of Edinburgh
Corresponding Author
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9446-445X
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CURRENT STATUS: Published
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Posted 17 Jan, 2020
Published
On 23 Sep, 2020
No community comments so far
Editorial decision: Accept
On 04 Sep, 2020
Review #2 received
Received 30 Aug, 2020
Reviewer #2 agreed
On 17 Aug, 2020
Review #1 received
Received 15 Jun, 2020
Reviewers invited
Invitations sent on 27 May, 2020
Reviewer #1 agreed
On 27 May, 2020
Editor assigned
On 15 Jan, 2020
Submission checks complete
On 14 Jan, 2020
Editor invited
On 14 Jan, 2020
First submitted
On 13 Jan, 2020
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This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License. Read Full License
View the published version at Pilot and Feasibility Studies.
Background: Contact centres are one of the most sedentary workplaces, with employees spending a very high proportion of their working day sitting down. About a quarter of contact centre staff regularly experience musculoskeletal health problems due to high levels of sedentary behaviour, including lower back pain. There have been no previous randomised studies specifically aiming to reduce sedentary behaviour in contact centre staff. To address this gap, the Stand Up for Health (SUH) study aims to test the feasibility and acceptability of a complex theory-based intervention to reduce sedentary behaviour in contact centres. Methods: The Stand Up for Health study has a stepped wedge cluster randomised trial design, which is a pragmatic design whereby clusters (contact centres) are randomised to time points at which they will begin to receive the intervention. All contact centre staff have the opportunity to experience the intervention. To minimise the resource burden in this feasibility study, data collection is not continuous, but undertaken on a selective number of occasions, so the stepped wedge design is “incomplete”. Eleven contact centres in England and Scotland have been recruited, and the sample size is approximately 27 per centre (270 in total. The statistical analysis will predominantly focus on assessing feasibility, including the calculation of recruitment rates and rates of attrition. Exploratory analysis will be performed to compare objectively measured sedentary time in the workplace (measured using an activPAL™ device) between intervention and control conditions using a linear mixed effects regression model. Discussion: This is the first stepped wedge feasibility study seeking to reduce sedentary behaviour in call centres. We employ an incomplete stepped wedge design to restrict data collection to certain time points to make data collection feasible. This trial will potentially inform the design of a future large multi-centre stepped wedge trial.
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