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Comparison of Interventions to Promote Health in Workers

NCT01484834 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 190

Last updated 2017-08-15

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Summary

The goal of this research was to investigate different intervention strategies in the workplace and their impact on quality of life of workers from companies in the city of Londrina, Parana, Brazil.

The interventions were composed by exercise in the workplace and educational interventions.

Conditions

  • Health Behavior

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Exercise and Education

Exercise were prescribed three times a week with duration of fifteen minutes for three months. Educational Intervention were composed by a quality of life computer software and poster with tips on health behaviors

BEHAVIORAL

Exercise

Exercise were prescribed three times a week with duration of fifteen minutes for three months.

BEHAVIORAL

Educational Intervention

This company received a quality of life software and poster intervention with tips on health lifestyle. The posters were printed in A3 paper and eight of them were put up per month in different parts of the companies (near water fountains, rest places, cafeterias, near the restrooms and change rooms). The used messages, both by the posters and the software were basedon scientific evidence related to quality of life and health

OTHER

Control Company

No intervention was applied for the participants of this group

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Universidade Metodista de Piracicaba

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Antonio J Grande, PhD · Universidade Metodista de Piracicaba

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
50 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-08-31
Primary Completion
2011-11-30
Completion
2011-11-30

Countries

  • Brazil

Study Locations

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