Effects on musculoskeletal pain from “Take a stand!”: A cluster-randomized controlled trial reducing sitting time among office workers

Ida Høgstedt Danquah; Stine Kloster; Andreas Holtermann; Mette Aadahl; Janne Schurmann Tolstrup

doi:10.5271/sjweh.3639

Effects on musculoskeletal pain from “Take a stand!”: A cluster-randomized controlled trial reducing sitting time among office workers

Ida Høgstedt Danquah, Stine Kloster, Andreas Holtermann, Mette Aadahl, Janne Schurmann Tolstrup^*

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Department of Public Health

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Abstract

Objectives: Prolonged sitting at work has been found to increase risk for musculoskeletal pain. The office-based intervention “Take a Stand!” was effective in reducing sitting time at work. We aimed to study the effect of the intervention on a secondary outcome: musculoskeletal pain.

Methods: Take a Stand! included 19 offices (317 workers) at four workplaces cluster randomized to intervention or control. The multicomponent intervention lasted three months and included management support, environmental changes, and local adaptation. Control participants behaved as usual. Musculoskeletal pain was measured by self-report questionnaire assessing pain in neck-shoulders, back and extremities in three categories at baseline, and one and three months follow-up.

Results: At one month, there was no difference in odds ratio (OR) for pain in neck-shoulders between the two groups. However, after three months, the OR was 0.52 [95% confidence interval (95% CI) 0.30–0.92] for pain in neck-shoulders in the intervention compared to the control group. No differences were found between the intervention and control group for pain in back and extremities over the three months. For total pain score a slight reduction was found in the intervention compared to the control group at one and three months [-0.13 (95% CI -0.23– -0.03) and -0.17 (95% CI -0.32– -0.01)].

Conclusions: The secondary analyses showed that the office-based intervention Take a Stand! reduced neck-shoulder pain after three months and total pain score after one and three months among office workers, but not neck-shoulder pain after one month or pain in the back and extremities.

Original language	English
Journal	Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health
Volume	43
Issue number	4
Pages (from-to)	350-357
Number of pages	8
ISSN	0355-3140
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5271/sjweh.3639
Publication status	Published - 2017

Keywords

Intervention
Low-back pain
Musculoskeletal disorder
Neck
Occupational sitting
Sedentary behavior
Shoulder
Workplace

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Effects on musculoskeletal pain from “Take a stand!”: A cluster-randomized controlled trial reducing sitting time among office workers. / Danquah, Ida Høgstedt; Kloster, Stine; Holtermann, Andreas et al.
In: Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health, Vol. 43, No. 4, 2017, p. 350-357.

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