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Physical activity to ameliorate the negative mental health effects of COVID-19-induced confinement
Mental health is strongly affected by physical (PA) and sedentary (SA) activity. In the current study, the relationships of PA and sedentary activity (SA) with mental status amid confinement caused by COVID-19 were examined. The study is self-reporting, survey-based, and cross-sectional in design. T...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9132429/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35637899 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.imu.2022.100976 |
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author | Alomari, Mahmoud A. Alzoubi, Karem H. Khabour, Omar F. Zraigat, Lama A. |
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description | Mental health is strongly affected by physical (PA) and sedentary (SA) activity. In the current study, the relationships of PA and sedentary activity (SA) with mental status amid confinement caused by COVID-19 were examined. The study is self-reporting, survey-based, and cross-sectional in design. The study was conducted in Jordan and included 1744 participants (≥18 years old). The participants' mental status was obtained using the Depression-Anxiety-Stress Scale (DASS). The results showed involvement in both PA and SA during COVID-19-induced confinement. The involvement includes walking (77.2%), running (70.3%), cycling (84.9%), swimming (83.1%), sports (82.9%), weightlifting (86.4%), watching TV (79.4%), using electronics (86.3%), and logging to social media (85.1%). Lower DASS scores were associated (p < 0.05) with lower walking, running, and weightlifting but not (p > 0.05) with cycling and swimming PA. Additionally, DASS scores (p < 0.05) were associated with changes in television viewing but not (p > 0.05) with electronics and social media use during confinement. In conclusion, individuals who experienced higher levels of stress, anxiety, and depression were more likely to turn to more PA and less SA. These findings are important and suggest that individuals during confinement find PA a useful strategy to mitigate the negative mental effects of the pandemic. |
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spelling | pubmed-91324292022-05-26 Physical activity to ameliorate the negative mental health effects of COVID-19-induced confinement Alomari, Mahmoud A. Alzoubi, Karem H. Khabour, Omar F. Zraigat, Lama A. Inform Med Unlocked Article Mental health is strongly affected by physical (PA) and sedentary (SA) activity. In the current study, the relationships of PA and sedentary activity (SA) with mental status amid confinement caused by COVID-19 were examined. The study is self-reporting, survey-based, and cross-sectional in design. The study was conducted in Jordan and included 1744 participants (≥18 years old). The participants' mental status was obtained using the Depression-Anxiety-Stress Scale (DASS). The results showed involvement in both PA and SA during COVID-19-induced confinement. The involvement includes walking (77.2%), running (70.3%), cycling (84.9%), swimming (83.1%), sports (82.9%), weightlifting (86.4%), watching TV (79.4%), using electronics (86.3%), and logging to social media (85.1%). Lower DASS scores were associated (p < 0.05) with lower walking, running, and weightlifting but not (p > 0.05) with cycling and swimming PA. Additionally, DASS scores (p < 0.05) were associated with changes in television viewing but not (p > 0.05) with electronics and social media use during confinement. In conclusion, individuals who experienced higher levels of stress, anxiety, and depression were more likely to turn to more PA and less SA. These findings are important and suggest that individuals during confinement find PA a useful strategy to mitigate the negative mental effects of the pandemic. The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2022 2022-05-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9132429/ /pubmed/35637899 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.imu.2022.100976 Text en © 2022 The Authors Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Alomari, Mahmoud A. Alzoubi, Karem H. Khabour, Omar F. Zraigat, Lama A. Physical activity to ameliorate the negative mental health effects of COVID-19-induced confinement |
title | Physical activity to ameliorate the negative mental health effects of COVID-19-induced confinement |
title_full | Physical activity to ameliorate the negative mental health effects of COVID-19-induced confinement |
title_fullStr | Physical activity to ameliorate the negative mental health effects of COVID-19-induced confinement |
title_full_unstemmed | Physical activity to ameliorate the negative mental health effects of COVID-19-induced confinement |
title_short | Physical activity to ameliorate the negative mental health effects of COVID-19-induced confinement |
title_sort | physical activity to ameliorate the negative mental health effects of covid-19-induced confinement |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9132429/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35637899 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.imu.2022.100976 |
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