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dc.contributor.authorAinsworth, Barbara E.en_US
dc.contributor.authorAnanian, Cheryl Deren_US
dc.contributor.authorSoroush, Alien_US
dc.contributor.authorWalker, Jenelleen_US
dc.contributor.authorSwan, Pamelaen_US
dc.contributor.authorPoortvliet, Ericen_US
dc.contributor.authorYngve, Agnetaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-04-22T09:19:56Z
dc.date.available2013-04-22T09:19:56Z
dc.date.issued2012-08-15en_US
dc.identifier.citationAinsworth, B., Der Ananian, C., Soroush, A., Walker, J., Swan, P., Poortvliet, E., & Yngve, A. (2012). “ASUKI Step” pedometer intervention in university staff: rationale and design. BMC public health, 12(1), 657.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1471-2458en_US
dc.identifier.otherFRIDAID 939679en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10642/1440
dc.description.abstractBackground We describe the study design and methods used in a 9-month pedometer-based worksite intervention called “ASUKI Step” conducted at the Karolinska Institutet (KI) in Stockholm, Sweden and Arizona State University (ASU) in the greater Phoenix area, Arizona. Methods/design “ASUKI Step” was based on the theory of social support and a quasi-experimental design was used for evaluation. Participants included 2,118 faculty, staff, and graduate students from ASU (n = 712) and KI (n = 1,406) who participated in teams of 3–4 persons. The intervention required participants to accumulate 10,000 steps each day for six months, with a 3-month follow-up period. Steps were recorded onto a study-specific website. Participants completed a website-delivered questionnaire four times to identify socio-demographic, health, psychosocial and environmental correlates of study participation. One person from each team at each university location was randomly selected to complete physical fitness testing to determine their anthropometric and cardiovascular health and to wear an accelerometer for one week. Study aims were: 1) to have a minimum of 400 employee participants from each university site reach a level of 10, 000 steps per day on at least 100 days (3.5 months) during the trial period; 2) to have 70% of the employee participants from each university site maintain two or fewer inactive days per week, defined as a level of less than 3,000 steps per day; 3) to describe the socio-demographic, psychosocial, environmental and health-related determinants of success in the intervention; and 4) to evaluate the effects of a pedometerbased walking intervention in a university setting on changes in self-perceived health and stress level, sleep patterns, anthropometric measures and fitness. Incentives were given for compliance to the study protocol that included weekly raffles for participation prizes and a grand finale trip to Arizona or Sweden for teams with most days over 10,000 steps. Discussion “ASUKI Step” is designed to increase the number of days employees walk 10,000 steps and to reduce the number of days employees spend being inactive. The study also evaluates the intra- and interpersonal determinants for success in the intervention and in a sub-sample of the study, changes in physical fitness and body composition during the study.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherBioMed Centralen_US
dc.subjectVDP::Medisinske Fag: 700::Helsefag: 800::Forebyggende medisin: 804en_US
dc.subjectPhysical activityen_US
dc.subjectExerciseen_US
dc.subjectWorksite health promotionen_US
dc.subjectPhysical fitnessen_US
dc.title“ASUKI Step” pedometer intervention in university staff: rationale and designen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.description.version© 2012 Ainsworth et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-12-657


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