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Physical activity and mental well-being under COVID-19 lockdown: a cross-sectional multination study

BACKGROUND: COVID-19 lockdowns have reduced opportunities for physical activity (PA) and encouraged more sedentary lifestyles. A concomitant of sedentariness is compromised mental health. We investigated the effects of COVID-19 lockdown on PA, sedentary behavior, and mental health across four Wester...

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Autores principales: Karageorghis, Costas I., Bird, Jonathan M., Hutchinson, Jasmin C., Hamer, Mark, Delevoye-Turrell, Yvonne N., Guérin, Ségolène M. R., Mullin, Elizabeth M., Mellano, Kathleen T., Parsons-Smith, Renée L., Terry, Victoria R., Terry, Peter C.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8154111/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34039306
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10931-5
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author Karageorghis, Costas I.
Bird, Jonathan M.
Hutchinson, Jasmin C.
Hamer, Mark
Delevoye-Turrell, Yvonne N.
Guérin, Ségolène M. R.
Mullin, Elizabeth M.
Mellano, Kathleen T.
Parsons-Smith, Renée L.
Terry, Victoria R.
Terry, Peter C.
author_facet Karageorghis, Costas I.
Bird, Jonathan M.
Hutchinson, Jasmin C.
Hamer, Mark
Delevoye-Turrell, Yvonne N.
Guérin, Ségolène M. R.
Mullin, Elizabeth M.
Mellano, Kathleen T.
Parsons-Smith, Renée L.
Terry, Victoria R.
Terry, Peter C.
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description BACKGROUND: COVID-19 lockdowns have reduced opportunities for physical activity (PA) and encouraged more sedentary lifestyles. A concomitant of sedentariness is compromised mental health. We investigated the effects of COVID-19 lockdown on PA, sedentary behavior, and mental health across four Western nations (USA, UK, France, and Australia). METHODS: An online survey was administered in the second quarter of 2020 (N = 2541). We measured planned and unplanned dimensions of PA using the Brunel Lifestyle Physical Activity Questionnaire and mental health using the 12-item General Health Questionnaire. Steps per day were recorded only from participants who used an electronic device for this purpose, and sedentary behavior was reported in hours per day (sitting and screen time). RESULTS: In the USA and Australia samples, there was a significant decline in planned PA from pre- to during lockdown. Among young adults, Australians exhibited the lowest planned PA scores, while in middle-aged groups, the UK recorded the highest. Young adults exhibited the largest reduction in unplanned PA. Across nations, there was a reduction of ~ 2000 steps per day. Large increases in sedentary behavior emerged during lockdown, which were most acute in young adults. Lockdown was associated with a decline in mental health that was more pronounced in women. CONCLUSIONS: The findings illustrate the deleterious effects of lockdown on PA, sedentary behavior, and mental health across four Western nations. Australian young and lower middle-aged adults appeared to fare particularly badly in terms of planned PA. The reduction in steps per day is equivalent to the non-expenditure of ~ 100 kcal. Declines in mental health show how harmful lockdowns can be for women in particular. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12889-021-10931-5.
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spelling pubmed-81541112021-05-28 Physical activity and mental well-being under COVID-19 lockdown: a cross-sectional multination study Karageorghis, Costas I. Bird, Jonathan M. Hutchinson, Jasmin C. Hamer, Mark Delevoye-Turrell, Yvonne N. Guérin, Ségolène M. R. Mullin, Elizabeth M. Mellano, Kathleen T. Parsons-Smith, Renée L. Terry, Victoria R. Terry, Peter C. BMC Public Health Research BACKGROUND: COVID-19 lockdowns have reduced opportunities for physical activity (PA) and encouraged more sedentary lifestyles. A concomitant of sedentariness is compromised mental health. We investigated the effects of COVID-19 lockdown on PA, sedentary behavior, and mental health across four Western nations (USA, UK, France, and Australia). METHODS: An online survey was administered in the second quarter of 2020 (N = 2541). We measured planned and unplanned dimensions of PA using the Brunel Lifestyle Physical Activity Questionnaire and mental health using the 12-item General Health Questionnaire. Steps per day were recorded only from participants who used an electronic device for this purpose, and sedentary behavior was reported in hours per day (sitting and screen time). RESULTS: In the USA and Australia samples, there was a significant decline in planned PA from pre- to during lockdown. Among young adults, Australians exhibited the lowest planned PA scores, while in middle-aged groups, the UK recorded the highest. Young adults exhibited the largest reduction in unplanned PA. Across nations, there was a reduction of ~ 2000 steps per day. Large increases in sedentary behavior emerged during lockdown, which were most acute in young adults. Lockdown was associated with a decline in mental health that was more pronounced in women. CONCLUSIONS: The findings illustrate the deleterious effects of lockdown on PA, sedentary behavior, and mental health across four Western nations. Australian young and lower middle-aged adults appeared to fare particularly badly in terms of planned PA. The reduction in steps per day is equivalent to the non-expenditure of ~ 100 kcal. Declines in mental health show how harmful lockdowns can be for women in particular. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12889-021-10931-5. BioMed Central 2021-05-27 /pmc/articles/PMC8154111/ /pubmed/34039306 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10931-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis 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/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Karageorghis, Costas I.
Bird, Jonathan M.
Hutchinson, Jasmin C.
Hamer, Mark
Delevoye-Turrell, Yvonne N.
Guérin, Ségolène M. R.
Mullin, Elizabeth M.
Mellano, Kathleen T.
Parsons-Smith, Renée L.
Terry, Victoria R.
Terry, Peter C.
Physical activity and mental well-being under COVID-19 lockdown: a cross-sectional multination study
title Physical activity and mental well-being under COVID-19 lockdown: a cross-sectional multination study
title_full Physical activity and mental well-being under COVID-19 lockdown: a cross-sectional multination study
title_fullStr Physical activity and mental well-being under COVID-19 lockdown: a cross-sectional multination study
title_full_unstemmed Physical activity and mental well-being under COVID-19 lockdown: a cross-sectional multination study
title_short Physical activity and mental well-being under COVID-19 lockdown: a cross-sectional multination study
title_sort physical activity and mental well-being under covid-19 lockdown: a cross-sectional multination study
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8154111/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34039306
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10931-5
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