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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 of up to ten minutes showed small average benefits for vigour and fatigue: vigour d=.36 (95% CI .16–.55), fatigue improvement d=.35 (.19–.50). The primary performance estimate, d=.16 (−.04 to .37), was not significant; subjective improvement does not establish better work performance.",
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      "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",
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        "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",
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          "Micro-breaks of up to ten minutes showed small average benefits for vigour and fatigue: vigour d=.36 (95% CI .16–.55), fatigue improvement d=.35 (.19–.50). The primary performance estimate, d=.16 (−.04 to .37), was not significant; subjective improvement does not establish better work performance."
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          "19 reports, 22 independent samples and 2,335 healthy employees or students, synthesised separately by outcome.",
          "Activities, tasks and designs varied; inclusion required English, a specified publication period and accessible full text. Performance showed a publication-bias signal, and sensitivity estimates do not replace the main analysis. Its P value is .17 in the text and .116 in Table 3; both are nonsignificant, but the exact value remains unresolved."
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          "19 reports, 22 independent samples and 2,335 healthy employees or students, synthesised separately by outcome."
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          "Experimental or quasi-experimental comparisons of micro-breaks lasting ≤10 minutes."
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          "Vigour, fatigue and performance, with 9, 9 and 15 effect groups respectively."
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        "id": "duration",
        "title": "Time frame",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Brief breaks and short-term task outcomes; no established long-term workplace-policy effect."
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        "title": "Research funding",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Andrei Rusu reported Romanian Ministry of Education and Research, CNCS–UEFISCDI support, project PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2019-2032."
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          "The authors declared no competing interests."
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          "Full-text eligibility, risk-of-bias assessment, Table 3, publication bias and discussion. Individual-study bias and performance-model output remain to be checked."
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