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Table 3 Three-month mean changes in activity outcomes, and differences between interventions, adjusting for confounders

From: Evaluating the effectiveness of organisational-level strategies with or without an activity tracker to reduce office workers’ sitting time: a cluster-randomised trial

 

Group ORG (n = 87)a

Group ORG + Tracker (n = 66)a

Between group differencea b(Group ORG + Tracker vs. Group ORG)

Outcome

Adjusted mean change (95 % CI)

Adjusted mean change (95 % CI)

Adjusted mean difference (95 % CI)

Work hours

 Sitting, min/10 h

−3.8 min (−17.4, 9.9), p = 0.588

−10.7 min (−26.8, 5.4), p = 0.194

−6.6 min (−35.0, 21.7), p = 0.645

 Prolonged sitting, min/10 h

−9.9 min (−29.8, 9.9), p = 0.326

−6.0 min (−33.0, 21.0), p = 0.665

+11.1 min (−27.5, 49.8), p = 0.572

 Time between sitting bouts

+0.2 min (−1.2, 1.7), p = 0.761

+0.4 min (−1.3, 2.0), p = 0.642

+0.5 min (−2.9, 3.9), p = 0.763

 Standing, min/10 h

+4.9 min (−6.3, 16.2), p = 0.390

+9.4 min (−3.8, 22.5), p = 0.162

+3.4 min (−19.8, 26.6), p = 0.775

 Stepping, min/10 h

−1.1 min (−4.9, 2.8), p = 0.580

+1.9 min (−3.4, 7.2), p = 0.483

+4.2 min (−6.0, 14.4), p = 0.420

 Number of steps/10 h

−35.5 steps (−231.8, 160.8), p = 0.723

+123.9 steps (−148.6, 396.5), p = 0.372

+227.7 steps (−307.8, 763.2), p = 0.404

Overall hours

 Sitting, min/16 h

−14.3 min (−29.6, 0.9), p = 0.066

−7.4 min (−29.8, 14.9), p = 0.513

+1.8 min (−41.9, 45.4), p = 0.937

 Prolonged sitting, min/16 h

−7.5 min (−26.9, 12.0), p = 0.450

−2.8 min (−30.1, 24.5), p = 0.841

+6.9 min (−36.0, 49.7), p = 0.753

 Time between sitting bouts

+0.2 min (−0.3, 0.8), p = 0.391

+0.7 min (−0.1, 1.4), p = 0.092

+0.9 min (−0.7, 2.4), p = 0.266

 Standing, min/16 h

+14.6 min (2.5, 26.8), p= 0.018

+16.0 min (−1.4, 33.4), p = 0.071

+2.1 min (−28.6, 32.8), p = 0.892

 Stepping, min/16 h

−0.5 min (−6.6, 5.5), p = 0.860

−6.5 min (−14.9, 1.9), p = 0.131

+1.2 min (−14.4, 16.8), p = 0.876

 Number of steps/16 h

−42.3 steps (−330.5, 245.8), p = 0.773

−259.1 steps (−631.6, 113.3), p = 0.172

+60.1 steps (−600.1, 720.4), p = 0.858

  1. Significant changes or differences (p < 0.05) are in bold
  2. aMissing data imputed by chained equations (m = 70 imputations)
  3. bModels adjust for baseline values of the outcome and confounders (see Additional file 5)