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Table 3 Characteristics of early adopters of the BeUpstanding program

From: A RE-AIM evaluation in early adopters to iteratively improve the online BeUpstanding™ program supporting workers to sit less and move more

Characteristics

n (%) or M ± SD

Difference

All

Evaluation group a

p b

Users (champions)

(n = 135)

(n = 18)

 

Age, years

41.6 (11.1)

47.1 (12.2)

0.028

Female, yes

101 (74.8%)

14 (77.8%)

0.756

OHS role in workplace, yes

90 (66.7%)

8 (44.4%)

0.037

Experience delivering workplace health promotion program, yes

67 (49.6%)

5 (27.8%)

0.054

Training in workplace health promotion, yes

86 (63.7%)

9 (50.0%)

0.199

Job classification

0.754

 Employee

66 (48.9%)

10 (55.6%)

 

 Team leader / Middle management

56 (41.5%)

7 (38.9%)

 

 Senior management / Executive

13 (9.6%)

1 (5.6%)

 

Team characteristics c

(n = 135)

(n = 18)

 

N Employees per team

23,154 Total

702 Total

0.328

0

6 (4.4%)

1 (5.6%)

 

1–4

9 (6.7%)

0 (0.0%)

 

5–10

28 (20.7%)

6 (33.3%)

 

11–19

19 (14.1%)

3 (16.7%)

 

20–49

28 (20.7%)

3 (16.7%)

 

≥50

45 (33.3%)

5 (27.8%)

 

Majority do primarily desk-based work, yes

119 (88.1%)

17 (94.4%)

0.390

Proportion in high siting job roles

0.539

 The minority

7 (5.2%)

0 (0.0%)

 

 About half

18 (13.3%)

1 (5.6%)

 

 The majority

49 (36.3%)

7 (38.9%)

 

 Nearly all / all

61 (45.2%)

10 (55.6%)

 

 Meet basic criteria for implementation trial d

109 (80.7%)

17 (94.4%)

0.146

Team members (staff)

(Pre n = 439)

(Pre n = 362)

(Post n = 175)

 

Age, mean (SD)

44.0 (11.7)

44.4 (11.5)

43.4 (12.9)

0.211

Female, % (n)

362 (82.8%)

305 (84.5%)

146 (83.4%)

0.200

University qualified, % (n)

264 (60.4%)

225 (62.3%)

122 (69.7%)

0.539

Exercise at least 5 days a week, % yes (n)

101 (24.9%)

87 (25.8%)

47 (28.1%)

0.212

Employment

0.852

 Full time

263 (60.2%)

214 (59.3%)

106 (60.6%)

 

 Part time

160 (36.6%)

133 (36.8%)

55 (31.4%)

 

 Casual

14 (3.2%)

14 (3.9%)

14 (8.0%)

 

Reported workplace physical activity

 

 Sitting %

73.4 (20.2)

74.0 (19.5)

64.7 (22.3)

0.543

 Standing %

14.8 (15.0)

15.2 (15.3)

22.0 (18.4)

0.391

 Moving %

11.8 (11.4)

10.8 (9.8)

13.3 (11.7)

0.029

Desired workplace physical activity

 

 Sitting %

43.1 (19.7)

43.5 (19.9)

42.0 (20.6)

0.298

 Standing %

31.1 (16.4)

31.5 (16.6)

32.2 (16.2)

0.082

 Moving %

25.8 (15.7)

25.0 (15.6)

25.8 (16.5)

0.033

  1. Table reports n (%) or M ± SD OHS = occupational health and safety
  2. a Included in the evaluation of effectiveness (organisation received responses to both pre and post staff surveys)
  3. b p for difference between those included vs excluded from evaluation group (user-, team- and pre-survey staff characteristics). Tests were from logistic regression or mixed logistic regression models accounting for staff nested in ‘organisational teams’ (i.e., teams from the same organisation combined)
  4. c User-reported team characteristics, treating each user as having one separate team
  5. d Screening criteria for implementation trial: Australian, team size ≥5, and majority of team do primarily desk-based work
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