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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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
by Francesc Alòs Colomer 1,2,*ORCID,Mª Àngels Colomer Cugat 3,Judit Bort-Roig 4,Emilia Chirveches-Pérez 5,Yoseba Cánovas Zaldúa 1,6ORCID,Carlos Martín-Cantera 7ORCID,Josep Franch-Nadal 2,8 andAnna Puig-Ribera 4ORCID
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Primary Healthcare Centre Passeig de Sant Joan, Catalan Health Institute, 08010 Barcelona, Spain
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Member of the redGDPS Foundation, 08204 Sabadell, Spain
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Department of Mathematics, ETSEA, University of Lleida, 25198 Lleida, Spain
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Sport and Physical Activity Research Group, Centre for Health and Social Care Research, University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia, 08500 Vic, Spain
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Research Group on Methodology, Methods, Models and Outcomes of Health and Social Sciences, Centre for Health and Social Care Research, University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia, 08500 Vic, Spain
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Head of Training, Catalan Health Institute, 08006 Barcelona, Spain
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Barcelona Research Support Unit, Foundation Primary Care Research Institute IDIAP Jordi Gol, 08025 Barcelona, Spain
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CIBER of Diabetes and Associated Metabolic Disease (CIBERDEM), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), 28029 Madrid, Spain
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Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(19), 12245; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191912245
Submission received: 26 July 2022 / Revised: 11 September 2022 / Accepted: 23 September 2022 / Published: 27 September 2022
(This article belongs to the Section Exercise and Health)
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Abstract
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: 213 office employees (n = 81 with T2D; n = 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.