School of Physical Education, Sport & Exercise Sciences, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand (Dr Hargreaves), Department of Human Nutrition, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand (Miss Hayr), School of Physical Education, Sport & Exercise Sciences, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand; Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand (Dr Jenkins), Division of Sciences, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand (Dr Perry) and Department of Human Nutrition, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand (Dr Peddie).
Address correspondence to: Elaine Anne Hargreaves, PhD, School of Physical Education, Sport & Exercise Sciences, PO Box 56, University of Otago, Dunedin, 9056, New Zealand ([email protected]).
Funding: No funding was received for this study.
The authors report no conflicts of interest.
Clinical significance: High levels of sedentary behavior is detrimental to health, taking regular activity breaks can mitigate the risk, and improve health outcomes. Our results show the barriers and facilitators to performing activity breaks which should inform intervention strategies to increase the number of activity breaks taken throughout the day in office-based employees.
