Differences in free-living patterns of sedentary behaviour between office employees with diabetes and office employees without diabetes: a principal component analysis for clinical practice
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AIMS: To identify principal components of free-living patterns of sedentary behaviour in office employees with type 2 diabetes (T2D) compared to normal glucose metabolism (NGM) office employees, using principal component analysis (PCA). METHODS: = 132 with NGM) wore an activPAL inclinometer 24 h a day for 7 consecutive days. Comparions of sedentary behaviour patterns between adults with T2D and NGM determined the dimensions that best characterise the sedentary behaviour patterns of office employees with T2D at work, outside work and at weekends. RESULTS: The multivariate PCA technique identified two components that explained 60% of the variability present in the data of sedentary behaviour patterns in the population with diabetes. This was characterised by a fewer number of daily breaks and breaks in time intervals of less than 20 min both at work, outside work and at weekends. On average, adults with T2D took fewer 31 breaks/day than adults without diabetes. CONCLUSION: Effective interventions from clinical practice to tackle prolonged sedentary behaviour in office employees with T2D should focus on increasing the number of daily sedentary breaks.
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Adults with type 2 diabetes have a pattern of sedentary behaviour different from adults without diabetes, characterized by fewer daily sedentary breaks and less time sitting in short periods of less than 20 min.
“Adults with T2D have shown to have a pattern of SB that is different from adults without diabetes [11], characterized by having fewer daily SB interruptions and spending less time sitting in short periods of less than 20 min [11].”
From Impact of a primary care-based mobile health intervention to ‘sit less and move more’ on HbA1c, blood pressure, and other clinical outcomes in office employees with type 2 diabetes: A randomized controlled trial (2025) · cites this paper as [11]
The Results (§3.1) report that participants with T2D took fewer daily sedentary breaks and spent less time in sedentary periods under 20 minutes than participants with normal glucose metabolism. The claim generalizes this finding to adults broadly, whereas the study examined office employees. (LLM, conf=0.86)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredThe increase in sedentary breaks, mainly breaks <20 min, can justify the clinical improvements observed.
“In our results there was a greater number of SB breaks in the intervention group, increasing 7.7 interruptions/day, mainly due to the increase in interruptions in periods of time less than 20 min, modifying the characteristic pattern in adults with T2D compared to adults without T2D [11], which can justify the results in the clinical improvements.”
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- Authors
- Colomer, F. A., Cugat, M. À. C., Bort-Roig, J., Chirveches-Pérez, E., Zaldúa, Y. C., Martín-Cantera, C., Franch-Nadal, J., & Puig-Ribera, A.
- Affiliations
- Primary Healthcare Centre Passeig de Sant Joan, Catalan Health Institute, 08010 Barcelona, Spain
- Department of Mathematics, ETSEA, University of Lleida, 25198 Lleida, Spain
- Sport and Physical Activity Research Group, Centre for Health and Social Care Research, University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia, 08500 Vic, Spain
- Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya (ES)
- Institut Català de la Salut (ES)
- Institut Universitari d'Investigació en Atenció Primària Jordi Gol (ES)
- Member of the redGDPS Foundation, 08204 Sabadell, Spain
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- Venue
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
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- MDPI AG
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- 2022-09-27
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- 12245
- ISSN
- 1660-4601 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC9566776
- OpenAlex
- W4297539462
- Cited by
- 7
- References
- 30
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 1
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- Funders
- Fondo de Investigación Sanitaria, Instituto de Salud Carlos III (PI17/01788, DEP2021-37169, redgdps/BJLTB/02/2022)
- the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (PI17/01788, DEP2021-37169, redgdps/BJLTB/02/2022)
- grant Jose Luís Torres from redGDPS Foundation (PI17/01788, DEP2021-37169, redgdps/BJLTB/02/2022)
- the Spanish Society of Family and Community Medicine (PI17/01788, DEP2021-37169, redgdps/BJLTB/02/2022)
- the Càtedra Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)—Novartis for research in Family and Community Medicine (PI17/01788, DEP2021-37169, redgdps/BJLTB/02/2022)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Physical Activity and Health
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Ergonomics and Musculoskeletal Disorders
- Keywords
- sedentary behavior, type 2 diabetes, office workers, sedentary breaks, workplace physical activity, sedentary behavior interventions
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Glucose, Habits, Humans, Workplace, Principal Component Analysis, Sedentary Behavior
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