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Comparison of Physical Fitness Profiles Obtained before and during COVID-19 Pandemic in Two Independent Large Samples of Children and Adolescents: DAFIS Project

COVID-19 pandemic restrictions might have negatively affected the health-related physical fitness of children and adolescents. The aim of this study was to contrast the body composition and physical fitness data of two independent samples of children and adolescents obtained from an online database...

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Autores principales: Rúa-Alonso, María, Rial-Vázquez, Jessica, Nine, Iván, Lete-Lasa, Jose Ramón, Clavel, Iván, Giráldez-García, Manuel A., Rodríguez-Corral, Miguel, Dopico-Calvo, Xurxo, Iglesias-Soler, Eliseo
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8998010/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35409645
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19073963
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author Rúa-Alonso, María
Rial-Vázquez, Jessica
Nine, Iván
Lete-Lasa, Jose Ramón
Clavel, Iván
Giráldez-García, Manuel A.
Rodríguez-Corral, Miguel
Dopico-Calvo, Xurxo
Iglesias-Soler, Eliseo
author_facet Rúa-Alonso, María
Rial-Vázquez, Jessica
Nine, Iván
Lete-Lasa, Jose Ramón
Clavel, Iván
Giráldez-García, Manuel A.
Rodríguez-Corral, Miguel
Dopico-Calvo, Xurxo
Iglesias-Soler, Eliseo
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description COVID-19 pandemic restrictions might have negatively affected the health-related physical fitness of children and adolescents. The aim of this study was to contrast the body composition and physical fitness data of two independent samples of children and adolescents obtained from an online database (DAFIS project) before (n = 15,287) and during (n = 2101) the first academic year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The results revealed higher values for the body mass index (p = 0.002), waist circumference (p < 0.001), and waist to hip and waist to height ratios (p < 0.001) during than before the pandemic, particularly in the case of boys. On the other hand, lower muscular fitness was observed for girls during the pandemic. Quantitative and qualitative analysis did not detect relevant changes in cardiorespiratory fitness in children or adolescents (p > 0.05). Our data suggested that pandemic constraints might have affected body composition and muscular fitness of children and adolescents. These results might be of interest for designing specific interventions oriented toward counteracting the negative effects of pandemic restrictions on health-related physical fitness.
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spelling pubmed-89980102022-04-12 Comparison of Physical Fitness Profiles Obtained before and during COVID-19 Pandemic in Two Independent Large Samples of Children and Adolescents: DAFIS Project Rúa-Alonso, María Rial-Vázquez, Jessica Nine, Iván Lete-Lasa, Jose Ramón Clavel, Iván Giráldez-García, Manuel A. Rodríguez-Corral, Miguel Dopico-Calvo, Xurxo Iglesias-Soler, Eliseo Int J Environ Res Public Health Article COVID-19 pandemic restrictions might have negatively affected the health-related physical fitness of children and adolescents. The aim of this study was to contrast the body composition and physical fitness data of two independent samples of children and adolescents obtained from an online database (DAFIS project) before (n = 15,287) and during (n = 2101) the first academic year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The results revealed higher values for the body mass index (p = 0.002), waist circumference (p < 0.001), and waist to hip and waist to height ratios (p < 0.001) during than before the pandemic, particularly in the case of boys. On the other hand, lower muscular fitness was observed for girls during the pandemic. Quantitative and qualitative analysis did not detect relevant changes in cardiorespiratory fitness in children or adolescents (p > 0.05). Our data suggested that pandemic constraints might have affected body composition and muscular fitness of children and adolescents. These results might be of interest for designing specific interventions oriented toward counteracting the negative effects of pandemic restrictions on health-related physical fitness. MDPI 2022-03-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8998010/ /pubmed/35409645 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19073963 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Rúa-Alonso, María
Rial-Vázquez, Jessica
Nine, Iván
Lete-Lasa, Jose Ramón
Clavel, Iván
Giráldez-García, Manuel A.
Rodríguez-Corral, Miguel
Dopico-Calvo, Xurxo
Iglesias-Soler, Eliseo
Comparison of Physical Fitness Profiles Obtained before and during COVID-19 Pandemic in Two Independent Large Samples of Children and Adolescents: DAFIS Project
title Comparison of Physical Fitness Profiles Obtained before and during COVID-19 Pandemic in Two Independent Large Samples of Children and Adolescents: DAFIS Project
title_full Comparison of Physical Fitness Profiles Obtained before and during COVID-19 Pandemic in Two Independent Large Samples of Children and Adolescents: DAFIS Project
title_fullStr Comparison of Physical Fitness Profiles Obtained before and during COVID-19 Pandemic in Two Independent Large Samples of Children and Adolescents: DAFIS Project
title_full_unstemmed Comparison of Physical Fitness Profiles Obtained before and during COVID-19 Pandemic in Two Independent Large Samples of Children and Adolescents: DAFIS Project
title_short Comparison of Physical Fitness Profiles Obtained before and during COVID-19 Pandemic in Two Independent Large Samples of Children and Adolescents: DAFIS Project
title_sort comparison of physical fitness profiles obtained before and during covid-19 pandemic in two independent large samples of children and adolescents: dafis project
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8998010/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35409645
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19073963
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