HEHTA collaborates with Queen’s University, Belfast
Published: 28 June 2018
In September 2019, NIHR Journals published 'A loyalty scheme to encourage physical activity in office workers: a cluster RCT', the result of partnership between HEHTA and Queen’s University Belfast
In September 2019, NIHR Journals published 'A loyalty scheme to encourage physical activity in office workers: a cluster RCT', the result of partnership between HEHTA and Queen’s University Belfast.
HEHTA’s Emma McIntosh and Yiqiao Xin were authors on the study, which looked at whether the ‘Physical Activity Loyalty scheme would help employees to get active during the working day by incentivising walking breaks and providing an interactive website with personalised feedback on goal-setting and the accumulation of Physical Activity Loyalty that could be redeemed for modest value retail vouchers’, according to NIHR Journals.
The study concluded that while well-being was slightly better and less hours were taken off work by those taking part in the scheme, they were less active than those not taking part. It was, therefore, deemed unlikely to be cost effective to introduce such schemes for office workers.
It further concluded that new approaches are needed towards such programmes.
First published: 28 June 2018