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    Study protocol and rationale of “the UP project”: evaluating the effectiveness of active breaks on health indicators in desk-based workers
    (2024)
    Carlos Cristi-Montero
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    Ricardo Martínez-Flores
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    Juan Pablo Espinoza-Puelles
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    Laura Favero-Ramirez
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    Natalia Zurita-Corvalan
    <jats:sec><jats:title>Background</jats:title><jats:p>Excessive sedentary time has been negatively associated with several health outcomes, and physical activity alone does not seem to fully counteract these consequences. This panorama emphasizes the essential of sedentary time interruption programs. “The Up Project” seeks to assess the effectiveness of two interventions, one incorporating active breaks led by a professional and the other utilizing a computer application (self-led), of both equivalent duration and intensity. These interventions will be compared with a control group to evaluate their impact on physical activity levels, sedentary time, stress perception, occupational pain, and cardiometabolic risk factors among office workers.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods</jats:title><jats:p>This quasi-experimental study includes 60 desk-based workers from universities and educational institutes in Valparaiso, Chile, assigned to three groups: (a) booster breaks led by professionals, (b) computer prompts that are unled, and (c) a control group. The intervention protocol for both experimental groups will last 12 weeks (only weekdays). The following measurements will be performed at baseline and post-intervention: cardiometabolic risk based on body composition (fat mass, fat-free mass, and bone mass evaluated by DXA), waist circumference, blood pressure, resting heart rate, and handgrip strength. Physical activity and sedentary time will be self-reported and device-based assessed using accelerometry. Questionnaires will be used to determine the perception of stress and occupational pain.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Discussion</jats:title><jats:p>Governments worldwide are addressing health issues associated with sedentary behavior, particularly concerning individuals highly exposed to it, such as desk-based workers. Despite implementing certain strategies, there remains a noticeable gap in comprehensive research comparing diverse protocols. For instance, studies that contrast the outcomes of interventions led by professionals with those prompted by computers are scarce. This ongoing project is expected to contribute to evidence-based interventions targeting reduced perceived stress levels and enhancing desk-based employees’ mental and physical well-being. The implications of these findings could have the capacity to lay the groundwork for future public health initiatives and government-funded programs.</jats:p></jats:sec>
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    Relationship between job satisfaction, burnout syndrome and depressive symptoms in physicians: a cross-sectional study based on the employment demand–control model using structural equation modelling
    (2022)
    David Villarreal-Zegarra
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    Wilder Iván Lázaro-Illatopa
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    Ronald Castillo-Blanco
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    CABIESES VALDES, BALTICA BEATRIZ  
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    Alice Blukacz
    <jats:sec><jats:title>Objective</jats:title><jats:p>To evaluate the relationship between job satisfaction, burnout syndrome (BS) and depressive symptoms (DS) based on the job demand–control framework model on a nationally representative sample of physicians working in the Peruvian Health System.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Setting</jats:title><jats:p>We carried out a secondary data analysis of the National Survey of Satisfaction of Users in Health 2016 in Peru.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Primary and secondary outcome measures</jats:title><jats:p>Our study assessed the development of the predictive model and had two parts: (1) to evaluate the association among the variables based on the job demand–control framework, and (2) to assess the proposed model acceptability using the structural equation modelling approach to estimate goodness-of-fit indices (GOFIs).</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Participants</jats:title><jats:p>We excluded physicians older than 65 years, who did not report income levels or who had missing data related to the workplace. Thus, we analysed 2100 participants.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results</jats:title><jats:p>The prevalence of DS was 3.3%. Physicians’ work-related illnesses had more probability to result in DS (prevalence ratio=2.23). DS was moderately related to BS dimensions (r&gt;0.50); nevertheless, the relationships between DS and the three job satisfaction scales were weak (r&lt;0.30). The first predictive model based on the variables, DS, BS and job satisfaction, had low GOFIs (comparative fit index (CFI)=0.883; root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA)=0.125). In a second evaluation, we used models with correlated errors obtaining optimal GOFIs (CFI=0.974; RMSEA=0.060).</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions</jats:title><jats:p>Our study identified a stable model to explain the relationship between job satisfaction, BS and DS among physicians. The results are consistent with the job demand–control framework. They could be applied to decision-making in occupational contexts in Latin American low/middle-income countries.</jats:p></jats:sec>
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    Violence and burnout in health care emergency workers in Santiago, Chile: A survey-based cross-sectional study
    (2019)
    Rosa E. Jiménez
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    Vivienne C. Bachelet
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    Patricio Gomolán
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    Luis Álvaro Lefio
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    Matías Goyenechea
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