Accepted for/Published in: JMIR Research Protocols
Date Submitted: Aug 5, 2019
Date Accepted: Feb 6, 2020
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Study Protocol for The National Implementation Trial of BeUpstanding™: A Broad-Reach Technology-Supported Program for Workers To Sit Less and Move More
ABSTRACT
Background:
The online BeUpstandingTM Champion Toolkit was developed to support work teams in addressing the emergent work health and safety issue of excessive sitting. It provides a step-by-step guide and associated resources that equip a workplace representative — the “champion” — to adopt and deliver the eight-week intervention program (BeUpstanding) to their work team. The evidence-informed program has been iteratively developed and optimised through a multi-phase process to ensure that it is fit-for-purpose for wide-scale implementation. This paper describes the current version of BeUpstanding, and the methods and protocol for a national implementation trial.
Methods:
The trial will be conducted in collaboration with five Australian workplace health and safety policy and practice partners. Desk-based work teams from a variety of industries will be recruited from across Australia via partner-led referral pathways. Recruitment will target sectors (small business, rural/regional, call centre, blue-collar, and government) that are of priority to the policy and practice partners. A minimum of 50 work teams will be recruited per priority sector with a minimum of 10,000 employees exposed to the program. A single-arm repeated measures design will assess the short-term (end of program) and long-term (nine months post-program) impacts. Data will be collected online via surveys and toolkit analytics, and by the research team via telephone calls with champions. The RE-AIM Framework will guide the evaluation, with assessment of: the adoption/reach of the program (the number and characteristics of work teams and participating staff); program implementation (completion by the champion of core program components); effectiveness (on workplace sitting, standing and moving); and, maintenance (sustainability of changes). There will be an economic evaluation of the costs and outcomes of scaling up to national implementation, including intervention affordability and sustainability. Discussion: The implementation and multi-method evaluation of BeUpstanding will provide the practice-based evidence needed for informing the potential broader dissemination of the program.
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