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Physical activity and screen time of children and adolescents before and during the COVID-19 lockdown in Germany: a natural experiment

The impact of COVID-19 on social life has been drastic and global. However, the different numbers of cases and different actions in different countries have been leading to various interesting yet unexplored effects on human behavior. In the present study, we compare the physical activity and recrea...

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Autores principales: Schmidt, Steffen C. E., Anedda, Bastian, Burchartz, Alexander, Eichsteller, Ana, Kolb, Simon, Nigg, Carina, Niessner, Claudia, Oriwol, Doris, Worth, Annette, Woll, Alexander
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Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7733438/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33311526
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-78438-4
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author Schmidt, Steffen C. E.
Anedda, Bastian
Burchartz, Alexander
Eichsteller, Ana
Kolb, Simon
Nigg, Carina
Niessner, Claudia
Oriwol, Doris
Worth, Annette
Woll, Alexander
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Anedda, Bastian
Burchartz, Alexander
Eichsteller, Ana
Kolb, Simon
Nigg, Carina
Niessner, Claudia
Oriwol, Doris
Worth, Annette
Woll, Alexander
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description The impact of COVID-19 on social life has been drastic and global. However, the different numbers of cases and different actions in different countries have been leading to various interesting yet unexplored effects on human behavior. In the present study, we compare the physical activity and recreational screen time of a representative sample of 1711 4- to 17-year-olds before and during the strictest time of the first COVID-19 lockdown in Germany. We found that sports activity declined whereas recreational screen time increased. However, a substantial increase in habitual physical activities leads to an overall increase in physical activity among children and adolescents in Germany. The effects differ in size but not in their direction between age groups and are stable for boys and girls. We conclude from this natural experiment that physical activity among children and adolescents is highly context-driven and mutual and does not act as a functional opposite to recreational screen time.
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spelling pubmed-77334382020-12-15 Physical activity and screen time of children and adolescents before and during the COVID-19 lockdown in Germany: a natural experiment Schmidt, Steffen C. E. Anedda, Bastian Burchartz, Alexander Eichsteller, Ana Kolb, Simon Nigg, Carina Niessner, Claudia Oriwol, Doris Worth, Annette Woll, Alexander Sci Rep Article The impact of COVID-19 on social life has been drastic and global. However, the different numbers of cases and different actions in different countries have been leading to various interesting yet unexplored effects on human behavior. In the present study, we compare the physical activity and recreational screen time of a representative sample of 1711 4- to 17-year-olds before and during the strictest time of the first COVID-19 lockdown in Germany. We found that sports activity declined whereas recreational screen time increased. However, a substantial increase in habitual physical activities leads to an overall increase in physical activity among children and adolescents in Germany. The effects differ in size but not in their direction between age groups and are stable for boys and girls. We conclude from this natural experiment that physical activity among children and adolescents is highly context-driven and mutual and does not act as a functional opposite to recreational screen time. Nature Publishing Group UK 2020-12-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7733438/ /pubmed/33311526 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-78438-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2020, corrected publication 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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Anedda, Bastian
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Eichsteller, Ana
Kolb, Simon
Nigg, Carina
Niessner, Claudia
Oriwol, Doris
Worth, Annette
Woll, Alexander
Physical activity and screen time of children and adolescents before and during the COVID-19 lockdown in Germany: a natural experiment
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title_full_unstemmed Physical activity and screen time of children and adolescents before and during the COVID-19 lockdown in Germany: a natural experiment
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7733438/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33311526
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-78438-4
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