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    "title": "TAP reading note: \"Give me a break!\" A systematic review and meta-analysis on the efficacy of micro-breaks for increasing well-being and performance",
    "description": "Micro-breaks produced small average improvements in vigor and fatigue. The pooled effect on overall performance was not statistically significant, so feeling better and performing better should be reported separately.",
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      "id": "albulescu-2022",
      "title": "\"Give me a break!\" A systematic review and meta-analysis on the efficacy of micro-breaks for increasing well-being and performance",
      "authors": "Patricia Albulescu · Irina Macsinga · Andrei Rusu · Coralia Sulea · Alexandra Bodnaru · Bogdan Tudor Tulbure",
      "journal": "PLOS ONE",
      "year": "2022",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0272460",
      "doi": "10.1371/journal.pone.0272460",
      "pmid": "36044424"
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      {
        "id": "albulescu-2022",
        "title": "\"Give me a break!\" A systematic review and meta-analysis on the efficacy of micro-breaks for increasing well-being and performance",
        "authors": "Patricia Albulescu · Irina Macsinga · Andrei Rusu · Coralia Sulea · Alexandra Bodnaru · Bogdan Tudor Tulbure",
        "journal": "PLOS ONE",
        "year": "2022",
        "url": "https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0272460",
        "doi": "10.1371/journal.pone.0272460",
        "pmid": "36044424"
      }
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      {
        "id": "finding",
        "title": "What the study found",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Micro-breaks produced small average improvements in vigor and fatigue. The pooled effect on overall performance was not statistically significant, so feeling better and performing better should be reported separately."
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "limits",
        "title": "Scope & limitations",
        "paragraphs": [
          "19 records yielding 22 independent samples (2,335 participants); outcome-specific samples differ.",
          "Tasks, break activities and measures varied. The review cannot identify one best break schedule or establish long-term changes in allostatic load."
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "sample",
        "title": "Population & sample",
        "paragraphs": [
          "19 records yielding 22 independent samples (2,335 participants); outcome-specific samples differ."
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "exposure",
        "title": "Exposure or intervention",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Breaks of up to ten minutes in experimental and quasi-experimental studies."
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "outcomes",
        "title": "Outcomes",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Vigor, fatigue and performance analyzed separately. The overall performance analysis used 15 samples and 1,132 participants."
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "duration",
        "title": "Time frame",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Short-term break outcomes in literature searched through April 2021; no common long-term follow-up."
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "funding",
        "title": "Research funding",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Andrei Rusu reported support from the Romanian Ministry of Education and Research, CNCS–UEFISCDI, project PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2019-2032."
        ]
      },
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        "id": "conflicts",
        "title": "Research conflicts of interest",
        "paragraphs": [
          "The authors declared no competing interests."
        ]
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        "id": "basis",
        "title": "Reading scope",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Based on the publication’s text, including Abstract, Results, limitations and funding/competing-interest statements. This reading note has not undergone independent scientific review."
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