The Effect of Flooring on Office Workers' Health and Behaviors

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.

Study Overview

• Status: Withdrawn
• Conditions: Healthy
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Ergonomic flooring

• Study Type: Interventional
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Minnesota
    • Rochester, Minnesota, United States, 55905
      • Mayo Clinic in Rochester

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 60 years (Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• 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)

Exclusion Criteria:

• 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.)

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: Double

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
No Intervention: Normal flooring; standard office flooring
Experimental: Ergonomic flooring; Ergonomically designed flooring	Other: Ergonomic flooring; Specially designed flooring system to optimize ergonomics of participants

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Sickness, absence, presenteeism	Work Limitations Questionnaire	9 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Mayo Clinic

Publications and helpful links

Helpful Links

• Mayo Clinic Clinical Trials

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): December 1, 2020
• Primary Completion (Anticipated): July 31, 2021
• Study Completion (Anticipated): December 31, 2021

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: October 16, 2019
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 16, 2019
• First Posted (Actual): October 18, 2019

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): October 29, 2021
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 24, 2021
• Last Verified: October 1, 2021

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: 19-006733

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No