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    Can E-mail Support Increase Physical Activity Within the Workplace?

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    Woolmer, Jillian
    Howat, Peter
    Sauer, Kay
    Date
    2005
    Type
    Conference Paper
    
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    Woolmer, Jillian and Howat, Peter and Sauer, Kay. 2005. Can E-mail Support Increase Physical Activity Within the Workplace? in The Mark Liveris Health Sciences Research Student Seminar 2005. Perth, WA: Curtin University of Technology.
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    School of Public Health
    Division of Health Sciences
    School
    Health Promotion
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    The Mark Liveris Health Sciences Research Student Seminar 2005.

    The Mark Liveris Seminar series provides a forum for postgraduate students in the Division to give a public presentation of their work and for the wider community to gain an appreciation of the breadth and depth of the research work in the Division of Health Sciences.

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19462
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    A brief intervention was conducted to assess the effectiveness of a walking based intervention to motivate Curtin university staff to be more active. Thirty staff participated in a blind trial with half the participants randomly allocated to the control group (given pedometers to record their normal daily steps) and intervention group (given pedometers and additional email motivation to increase their daily step count). It was found that University staff physical activity levels (7,605 mean steps per day) were significantly lower than physical activity levels of the general population in Western Australia (9,695 mean steps per day). This is of concern as it places University staff at higher risk of mortality and morbidity from chronic diseases. Regular motivational emails were found to be useful in encouraging staff to be more active as staff liked the social support, sense of belonging and encouragement. Group 1 (email motivation) increased their mean steps significantly from 7,578 in Week 1 to 9,128 in Week 2 while the control group did not change. Many workplaces have staff with sedentary jobs that could be targeted by similar flexible physical activity interventions.

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