Method
Recruitment
An information e-mail was sent in November 2016 to all staff in the Health Sciences Faculty of a Western Australian University inviting volunteers with no injuries and with access to video attachments via email to participate in the study. After signing consent forms and demonstrating understanding of the introductory information, participants were invited to fill in the pre-study questionnaire via a Qualtrics anonymous link.
The exercise intervention start date was fixed at 2ndJanuary 2017 and the end date at 27th January 2017.
The exercise program provided coordination challenges that could be met by practicing for one-two minutes several times a day. Participants received a demonstration video every working day by email. The 5 videos delivered Monday to Friday made up a dance; week 1, Disco; week 2, Bollywood; week 3, Salsa; week 4, Cha-Cha-Cha.
A Project Coordinator normalized this activity by practising the moves with participants in their office. An optional meeting was organized to practice at 12pm from Monday to Friday for ten to fifteen minutes.
A questionnaire composed of questions previously used to evaluate well-being [7, 8] was filled in at the start and the end of the 4-week program for comparison.
The subjects accessed the questionnaires via an anonymous link to the Qualtrics website. The data was analysed using Graphpad Prism.
Ethics
Ethical approval was obtained from Curtin University’s Human Ethics Committee (Approval number HRE2016-0348).