Exploring sedentary behaviour in those with lower limb osteoarthritis
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Exploring perspectives on sedentary behaviour and ways to overcome prolonged sedentary behaviour in a lower limb, osteoarthritic population
IRAS ID
327258
Contact name
Zoe Dawson
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
York St John University
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 0 months, 1 days
Research summary
There is a lack of research that focuses on reducing sedentary behaviour (SB) within an osteoarthritic (OA) population (Powell et al., 2021). Understanding key behavioral issues and challenges and exploring their perspectives would improve the quality of an intervention to facilitate long term change and promote cardiovascular health (Powell et al., 2021). A previous study highlighted SB in adults has negative affects on cognitive function, depression, function and disability, physical activity levels and physical health-related quality of life (Saunders et al., 2020). They also demonstrated how reducing SB can have positive influences on cardiometabolic risk (Saunders et al., 2020). This further emphasises the need to explore the values and beliefs of this population for effective interventions to reduce SB.
To date, one study has attempted to explore OA adult’s beliefs and preferences concerning SB (Powell et al., 2021), however, due to the close-ended questionnaires interpretation and understanding is limited. It would therefore be worthwhile gaining a more in-depth perspective on way to reduce their SB through the use of open-ended questions, interviews and focus groups to gain more insightful knowledge as to what they would want to see in a SB intervention.
The study will be of qualitative design using interpretive description to explore the beliefs and views of an OA population to identify key behavioral issues, needs and challenges on how best to implement an effective SB intervention. It will add rich data to the SB field and inform the development and implementation of future SB interventions that are focused on behavior change and the populations capabilities. The study is part of a PhD thesis funded and run through York St John University. The study is wanting to recruit those diagnosed with knee or hip osteoarthritis.
REC name
East of England - Cambridge East Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
23/EE/0167
Date of REC Opinion
28 Jul 2023
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion