Project

The evaluation of a computer-tailored intervention to reduced sedentary behavior.

Code

3E009711

Duration

01 October 2011 → 30 September 2017

Funding

Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)

Promotor

Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij

Fellow

Katrien De Cocker

Research disciplines

Social sciences
- Education curriculum
Medical and health sciences
- Public health care
- Public health sciences
- Public health services

Keywords

sitting tailored advice online intervention

Project description

The project will develop, implement and evaluate an online computer-tailored intervention to reduce sitting time in healthy adults. After pilot-testing the program, the intervention will be evaluated conducting a 3-group randomized controlled trial. Short (3 months) and long (12 months) -term effects of participants receiving (1) computer-tailored advice, (2) standard advice and (3) no advice will be compared.