Table 1 Process evaluation methods and data collected for intervention and control participants
From: Reducing sitting at work: process evaluation of the SMArT Work (Stand More At Work) intervention
Focus | Intervention participants | Control participants | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
6-month questionnaire (n = 58, 88% RR) | 12-month questionnaire (n = 55, 87% RR) | Focus group (n = 29, 46% RR) | 12-month questionnaire (n = 37, 80% RR) | Focus group (n = 5, 11% RR) | |
Height-adjustable workstation | |||||
Use | √ | √ | √ | ||
Usability | √ | √ | √ | ||
Experiences | √ | √ | √ | ||
Perceptions | √ | √ | √ | ||
Strategies for use | √ | √ | √ | ||
External support for use | √ | ||||
Education seminar | |||||
Perceptions of content | √ | √ | |||
Increased awareness and motivation | √ | ||||
Key messages | √ | √ | |||
Impact on behaviour | √ | ||||
Wider dissemination | |||||
Sitting diary (for goal setting/self-monitoring behaviour) | |||||
Use | √ | √ | |||
Usefulness | √ | √ | |||
Improvements | √ | √ | |||
Sitting behaviour feedback | |||||
Use | √ | √ | |||
Usefulness | √ | √ | |||
Increased motivation | √ | √ | |||
Assisted with goal setting | √ | √ | |||
Darma cushion | |||||
Use | √ | √ | |||
Usefulness | √ | √ | |||
Usability of device | √ | √ | |||
Ease of use | √ | √ | |||
Facilitated behaviour change | √ | √ | |||
Alternative support for self-monitoring and/or prompt | |||||
Use of other self-monitoring or prompt tools | √ | √ | |||
Educational leaflet | |||||
Use | √ | ||||
Usefulness | √ | ||||
Perceptions of content | √ | ||||
Progress chats (coaching) with research team | |||||
Usefulness | √ | ||||
Perceptions | √ | ||||
Motivations for remaining in study | √ | ||||
Workplace managerial support | √ | √ | |||
Strategies used to change sitting behaviour (desk, goal setting, prompting, education) | √ | ||||
Behaviour changes resulting from participating in study | √ | √ | |||
Motivators for behaviour change | √ | ||||
Facilitators to behaviour change | √ | ||||
Impact of colleagues on behaviour | √ | ||||
Reducing sitting outside of work | √ | ||||
Benefits of reducing sitting and negative/adverse events | √ | ||||
Behaviour change maintenance | √ | ||||
Wider policy changes at work | √ | ||||
Other lifestyle changes | √ | √ | √ | ||
Impact of measurement sessions on behaviour | √ | √ | √ | ||