Do active design buildings change health behaviour and workplace perceptions?

Occupational Medicine
L EngelenA E Bauman

Abstract

Occupying new, active design office buildings designed for health promotion and connectivity provides an opportunity to evaluate indoor environment effects on healthy behaviour, sedentariness and workplace perceptions. To determine if moving to a health-promoting building changed workplace physical activity, sedentary behaviour, workplace perceptions and productivity. Participants from four locations at the University of Sydney, Australia, relocated into a new active design building. After consent, participants completed an online questionnaire 2 months before moving and 2 months after. Questions related to health behaviours (physical activity and sitting time), musculoskeletal issues, perceptions of the office environment, productivity and engagement. There were 34 participants (60% aged 25-45, 78% female, 84% employed full-time); 21 participants provided complete data. Results showed that after the move participants spent less work time sitting (83-70%; P < 0.01) and more time standing (9-21%; P < 0.01), while walking time remained unchanged. Participants reported less low back pain (P < 0.01). Sixty per cent of participants in the new workplace were in an open-plan office, compared to 16% before moving. Participants perceive...Continue Reading

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Feb 18, 2017·Work : a Journal of Prevention, Assessment, and Rehabilitation·Lina EngelenAdrian Bauman
Feb 7, 2018·Frontiers in Psychology·Susana Sanduvete-ChavesFrancisco P Holgado-Tello
May 8, 2019·International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health·Birgit Wallmann-SperlichIngo Froboese
Oct 29, 2019·Work : a Journal of Prevention, Assessment, and Rehabilitation·Lina EngelenJosephine Y Chau
Jun 2, 2018·The International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity·Kazuhiro WatanabeShigeru Inoue
Dec 17, 2020·International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health·Lina Engelen
Jul 3, 2021·International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health·José Antonio Lozano-LozanoFrancisco Pablo Holgado-Tello

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