title: Novel strategies for sedentary behavior research.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This article reports on the "Novel Strategies for Sedentary Behavior Research" session of the Sedentary Behavior: Identifying Research Priorities workshop.
  
  
  METHODS
  The purpose of this session of the workshop were to propose strategies for accomplishing a research agenda in dealing with sedentary behavior and to consider research priorities for people at high risk for excess sedentary behavior.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The four major recommendations from this workshop were as follows: 1) To add repeated objective measures of physical activity and sedentary behavior to existing cohort studies and standardize approaches to measurement and analysis. Epidemiologic studies will be the most efficient design for addressing some research questions. 2) To increase research efficiency, consider the advantages of a network of connected research studies and health systems. Advantages include access to existing data in electronic health records. 3) To carefully select a variety of high-risk study populations and preplan collaboration among studies in intervention research. This strategy can efficiently address the breadth of issues in sedentary behavior research. 4) To include comparative effectiveness designs and pure environmental interventions in intervention research. This strategy facilitates and enhances translation of interventions into practice.
authors.affiliation: 1Group Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA; 2Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; 3Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Pasadena, CA; 4George Mason University, College of Health and Human Services, Fairfax, VA; 5Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA; and 6University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, Champaign, IL.
authors.forename: Dori E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Rosenberg
authors.forename: I-Min
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Deborah Rohm
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Young
authors.forename: Thomas R
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Prohaska
authors.forename: Neville
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Owen
authors.forename: David M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Buchner
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D054555:National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (U.S.); D012106:Research; D057185:Sedentary Behavior; D014481:United States