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Influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on running behaviors, motives, and running-related injury: A one-year follow-up survey

The purpose of this study was to compare running behaviors, motives, and injury during the first full year of the pandemic compared to the year prior, and month of eased restrictions. 466 runners responded to this follow-up survey. Paired t-tests were used to compare timepoints. Logistic regressions...

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Autores principales: DeJong Lempke, Alexandra F., Hertel, Jay
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8967014/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35353824
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264361
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description The purpose of this study was to compare running behaviors, motives, and injury during the first full year of the pandemic compared to the year prior, and month of eased restrictions. 466 runners responded to this follow-up survey. Paired t-tests were used to compare timepoints. Logistic regressions were used to assess demographic influences on behaviors. During the first full year of the pandemic, runners were more likely to increase their weekly runs (Mean Differences [MD]: 0.29±0.10, p < .001), yet had fewer motives (MD: -0.20±0.06, p = .02) compared to the month of eased restrictions. 18–25-year-olds were most likely to increase running volume (Odds Ratio [OR]: 2.79 [1.06, 7.32], p = .04) during the first full year of the pandemic compared to the year prior. Inexperienced runners reported fewer motives (OR: 3.00–4.41, p = .02-.04), and reduced sustained runs (OR: 2.36 [1.13, 4.96], p = .02) during the first full year of the pandemic compared to the year prior. Inexperienced runners and runners who lost access to preferred locations were at increased injury risk (OR: 1.98–2.63, p: .01-.04) during the first full year of the pandemic compared to the year prior. Our findings highlight pandemic-related changes among the running community that are likely to influence behaviors and injury risk.
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spelling pubmed-89670142022-03-31 Influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on running behaviors, motives, and running-related injury: A one-year follow-up survey DeJong Lempke, Alexandra F. Hertel, Jay PLoS One Research Article The purpose of this study was to compare running behaviors, motives, and injury during the first full year of the pandemic compared to the year prior, and month of eased restrictions. 466 runners responded to this follow-up survey. Paired t-tests were used to compare timepoints. Logistic regressions were used to assess demographic influences on behaviors. During the first full year of the pandemic, runners were more likely to increase their weekly runs (Mean Differences [MD]: 0.29±0.10, p < .001), yet had fewer motives (MD: -0.20±0.06, p = .02) compared to the month of eased restrictions. 18–25-year-olds were most likely to increase running volume (Odds Ratio [OR]: 2.79 [1.06, 7.32], p = .04) during the first full year of the pandemic compared to the year prior. Inexperienced runners reported fewer motives (OR: 3.00–4.41, p = .02-.04), and reduced sustained runs (OR: 2.36 [1.13, 4.96], p = .02) during the first full year of the pandemic compared to the year prior. Inexperienced runners and runners who lost access to preferred locations were at increased injury risk (OR: 1.98–2.63, p: .01-.04) during the first full year of the pandemic compared to the year prior. Our findings highlight pandemic-related changes among the running community that are likely to influence behaviors and injury risk. Public Library of Science 2022-03-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8967014/ /pubmed/35353824 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264361 Text en © 2022 DeJong Lempke, Hertel https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on running behaviors, motives, and running-related injury: A one-year follow-up survey
title Influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on running behaviors, motives, and running-related injury: A one-year follow-up survey
title_full Influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on running behaviors, motives, and running-related injury: A one-year follow-up survey
title_fullStr Influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on running behaviors, motives, and running-related injury: A one-year follow-up survey
title_full_unstemmed Influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on running behaviors, motives, and running-related injury: A one-year follow-up survey
title_short Influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on running behaviors, motives, and running-related injury: A one-year follow-up survey
title_sort influence of the covid-19 pandemic on running behaviors, motives, and running-related injury: a one-year follow-up survey
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8967014/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35353824
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264361
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