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Swimming at the Time of COVID-19: A Cross-Sectional Study among Young Italian Competitive Athletes
During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, several restriction measures were imposed to control the virus transmission, with important repercussions on different sectors, including sport. This study aimed to explore the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Italian competitive swimmers b...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9603593/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36293816 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013236 |
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author | Gallè, Francesca Protano, Carmela Zaccarin, Matteo Zanni, Stefano Valeriani, Federica Liguori, Giorgio Romano Spica, Vincenzo Vitali, Matteo |
author_facet | Gallè, Francesca Protano, Carmela Zaccarin, Matteo Zanni, Stefano Valeriani, Federica Liguori, Giorgio Romano Spica, Vincenzo Vitali, Matteo |
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description | During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, several restriction measures were imposed to control the virus transmission, with important repercussions on different sectors, including sport. This study aimed to explore the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Italian competitive swimmers by analyzing how the disease and the restriction measures affected their training. In total, 396 competitive swimmers (mean age 16.0 ± 3.2 years) participated. A questionnaire was used to collect their general information, to assess whether they had had COVID-19 and the number of training days lost due to the disease or to the closure of swimming facilities, and the possible alternative training adopted. Twenty-four (6.1%) participants had had COVID-19 and lost, on average, 32 training days. The closure of facilities caused an interruption in swimming training for about 18% of the participants. The majority of these continued their training, mainly through home-based exercise, but reduced their weekly training time (-8 median hours/week). A positive association was found between regularly adopted weekly training volume and that assumed during pandemic closure (OR 9.433, CI95% 1.644–54.137, p = 0.012), suggesting that the previous level of engagement in sport can represent a predictor of exercise maintenance in challenging situations such as a pandemic. Further studies are needed to identify personal, environmental, and social resources that can help individuals to counteract the negative effects of restriction measures. |
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spelling | pubmed-96035932022-10-27 Swimming at the Time of COVID-19: A Cross-Sectional Study among Young Italian Competitive Athletes Gallè, Francesca Protano, Carmela Zaccarin, Matteo Zanni, Stefano Valeriani, Federica Liguori, Giorgio Romano Spica, Vincenzo Vitali, Matteo Int J Environ Res Public Health Article During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, several restriction measures were imposed to control the virus transmission, with important repercussions on different sectors, including sport. This study aimed to explore the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Italian competitive swimmers by analyzing how the disease and the restriction measures affected their training. In total, 396 competitive swimmers (mean age 16.0 ± 3.2 years) participated. A questionnaire was used to collect their general information, to assess whether they had had COVID-19 and the number of training days lost due to the disease or to the closure of swimming facilities, and the possible alternative training adopted. Twenty-four (6.1%) participants had had COVID-19 and lost, on average, 32 training days. The closure of facilities caused an interruption in swimming training for about 18% of the participants. The majority of these continued their training, mainly through home-based exercise, but reduced their weekly training time (-8 median hours/week). A positive association was found between regularly adopted weekly training volume and that assumed during pandemic closure (OR 9.433, CI95% 1.644–54.137, p = 0.012), suggesting that the previous level of engagement in sport can represent a predictor of exercise maintenance in challenging situations such as a pandemic. Further studies are needed to identify personal, environmental, and social resources that can help individuals to counteract the negative effects of restriction measures. MDPI 2022-10-14 /pmc/articles/PMC9603593/ /pubmed/36293816 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013236 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/). |
spellingShingle | Article Gallè, Francesca Protano, Carmela Zaccarin, Matteo Zanni, Stefano Valeriani, Federica Liguori, Giorgio Romano Spica, Vincenzo Vitali, Matteo Swimming at the Time of COVID-19: A Cross-Sectional Study among Young Italian Competitive Athletes |
title | Swimming at the Time of COVID-19: A Cross-Sectional Study among Young Italian Competitive Athletes |
title_full | Swimming at the Time of COVID-19: A Cross-Sectional Study among Young Italian Competitive Athletes |
title_fullStr | Swimming at the Time of COVID-19: A Cross-Sectional Study among Young Italian Competitive Athletes |
title_full_unstemmed | Swimming at the Time of COVID-19: A Cross-Sectional Study among Young Italian Competitive Athletes |
title_short | Swimming at the Time of COVID-19: A Cross-Sectional Study among Young Italian Competitive Athletes |
title_sort | swimming at the time of covid-19: a cross-sectional study among young italian competitive athletes |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9603593/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36293816 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013236 |
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