How to Measure Sedentary Behavior at Work?

Gil Boudet; Pierre Chausse; David Thivel; Sylvie Rousset; Martial Mermillod; Julien S. Baker; Lénise Parreira; Yolande Esquirol; Martine Duclos; Frédéric Dutheil

doi:https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2019.00167

doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2019.00167

How to Measure Sedentary Behavior at Work?

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Frontiers in Public Health5.20

Volume: 7

Published: Jul 5, 2019

Abstract

Prolonged sedentary behavior (SB) is associated with increased risk for chronic conditions, and due to technological advances, the working population is located in an office setting with high occupational exposure to SB. There is a new focus in assessing, understanding and reducing SB in the work setting. So, measuring accurately SB at work is a new goal. There are many subjective (questionnaires) and objective methods (monitoring with wearable...