Stand Up for Your Health: The Up Project

Participants in this group will receive interventions in the form of active breaks, administered by professionals in the relevant field, such as Physical Education teachers, for a period of 12 weeks. The active breaks will comprise exercises of light-to-moderate intensity, based on the guidelines provided by the Chilean safety association (ACHS), with an average duration of 14-16 minutes per day from Monday to Friday. The exercise types and progression will be elaborated in our protocol and published as supplementary material.

"Participants in this group will receive interventions in the form of active breaks, facilitated through an application called Ponte de pie por tu salud, proposed by the Chilean Ministry of Health. This off-line application will be configured to generate breaks every hour, lasting for 2 minutes per break, over the course of 8 hours. This ensures that an average of 14-16 minutes of active breaks are accumulated throughout the day. Our research team will install the application on the participants' work computers and collect data from these computers weekly. At the end of the intervention period, the application will be uninstalled if necessary."