Breaking the habit of prolonged occupational sitting

Key points

• Sitting is a largely automatic behaviour for most office workers, therefore interventions should focus on increasing awareness of alternatives to sitting and enhance user control over sitting choices.
• Our e-health intervention helped employees become more aware of their sitting, and to realise the control they had over their sitting choices.
• Measuring self-reported habit strength provides a better understanding of the behavioural change process, and the sustainability of long-term interventions.

Our relevant work

• A longitudinal look at habit strength as a measure of success in decreasing prolonged occupational sitting: An evidence-based public health initiative
• Breaking the habit? Identifying discrete dimensions of sitting automaticity and their responsiveness to a sittingreduction intervention