The Effect of Flooring on Office Workers' Health and Behaviors

NCT04130932 | Withdrawn

• 1 other identifier: 19-006733
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: N/A
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Researchers are trying to better understand how offices and workspaces influence people's performance, behavior and health during the course of weeks and over long periods of time.

Conditions

Healthy

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Sickness, absence, presenteeism

  Work Limitations Questionnaire

  9 weeks

Study Arms (2)

Normal flooring

NO INTERVENTION

standard office flooring

Ergonomic flooring

EXPERIMENTAL

Ergonomically designed flooring

Other: Ergonomic flooring

Interventions

Ergonomic flooring OTHER

Specially designed flooring system to optimize ergonomics of participants

Ergonomic flooring

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 60 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• Ability to provide informed consent
• Must be adults between the ages of 18 and 60
• Ability to relocate to the Well Living Lab for 9 consecutive weeks
• Full-time Mayo Clinic employees (35+ hours per week)
• Report working a sedentary job (e.g., sit for \>= 50% of their work time).
• Have a working mobile phone that can receive text messages
• Must be present for 80% of the study (minimum of 4 days per week)

You may not qualify if:

• Individuals who are shift-workers
• Individuals diagnosed with vascular diseases (i.e., Raynaud's disease, peripheral artery disease, etc.)
• Individuals with diagnosed neurological and psychiatric disorders that may have physical limitations
• Drug (illegal or prescription narcotic), nicotine, or alcohol dependency
• Women who are lactating, pregnant or intend to become pregnant during the duration of the study
• Individuals who are taking medications (either prescribed or over-the-counter) which may affect comfort levels (e.g., opiate based medications)
• Working in occupation requiring standing/stepping \>50% of work time
• Report \< 1 year at current job
• Hospitalization from either a physical or mental disorder in the past six months
• History of cardiovascular, pulmonary, metabolic, neurological, or orthopedic limitations that would prohibit occupational physical activity (e.g., standing, stepping, etc.)

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Mayo Clinic: lead

Study Sites (1)

Mayo Clinic in Rochester

Rochester, Minnesota, 55905, United States

Location

Related Links

• Mayo Clinic Clinical Trials

Study Officials

• Brent Bauer, MD

  Mayo Clinic

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: DOUBLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT, OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Principal Investigator

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: October 16, 2019
• First Posted: October 18, 2019
• Study Start: December 1, 2020
• Primary Completion: July 31, 2021
• Study Completion: December 31, 2021
• Last Updated: October 29, 2021

Record last verified: 2021-10

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (1)