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Physical Activity versus Selected Health Behaviors, Subjective Physical and Psychological Health and Multimorbidity in a Large Cohort of Polish Seniors during the COVID-19 Pandemic (Results of the National Test for Poles’ Health )

National Test for Poles’ Health is an online study conducted on a large group of Polish Internet users. For the purpose of this study, 64,732 subjects (48.8% female) over 65 years old were included. Subjects provided answers on the level of physical activity (PA) they engage in, prevalence of non-co...

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Autores principales: Szychowska, Agnieszka, Zimny-Zając, Anna, Dziankowska-Zaborszczyk, Elżbieta, Grodzicki, Tomasz, Drygas, Wojciech, Zdrojewski, Tomasz
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9819469/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36612878
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20010556
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author Szychowska, Agnieszka
Zimny-Zając, Anna
Dziankowska-Zaborszczyk, Elżbieta
Grodzicki, Tomasz
Drygas, Wojciech
Zdrojewski, Tomasz
author_facet Szychowska, Agnieszka
Zimny-Zając, Anna
Dziankowska-Zaborszczyk, Elżbieta
Grodzicki, Tomasz
Drygas, Wojciech
Zdrojewski, Tomasz
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description National Test for Poles’ Health is an online study conducted on a large group of Polish Internet users. For the purpose of this study, 64,732 subjects (48.8% female) over 65 years old were included. Subjects provided answers on the level of physical activity (PA) they engage in, prevalence of non-communicable diseases (obesity, hypertension, diabetes, heart diseases, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), depression, cancer) and subjective physical and psychological health. Additionally, their Body Mass Index (BMI) and prevalence of multimorbidity was assessed. We found that older people who engage in at least 2 h of physical activity/week had significantly lower prevalence of hypertension, obesity and heart diseases than those who engaged in 1–1.5 h/week or less than 1 h/week. Multimorbidity was present in 33.2% of subjects from the most active group and 52.6% of the least active ones. Subjective physical and psychological health was rated as “very good” by 26.6% and 41.2%, respectively, by subjects from the most active group. Only 9.1% of the least active subjects rated their physical health as “very good” and only 27.4% rated their psychological health as such. Regular physical activity may be a helpful tool in combating the reduced well-being of older people affected by the isolation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, over 65% of respondents claimed to engage in less than 1 h of PA a week or less.
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spelling pubmed-98194692023-01-07 Physical Activity versus Selected Health Behaviors, Subjective Physical and Psychological Health and Multimorbidity in a Large Cohort of Polish Seniors during the COVID-19 Pandemic (Results of the National Test for Poles’ Health ) Szychowska, Agnieszka Zimny-Zając, Anna Dziankowska-Zaborszczyk, Elżbieta Grodzicki, Tomasz Drygas, Wojciech Zdrojewski, Tomasz Int J Environ Res Public Health Article National Test for Poles’ Health is an online study conducted on a large group of Polish Internet users. For the purpose of this study, 64,732 subjects (48.8% female) over 65 years old were included. Subjects provided answers on the level of physical activity (PA) they engage in, prevalence of non-communicable diseases (obesity, hypertension, diabetes, heart diseases, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), depression, cancer) and subjective physical and psychological health. Additionally, their Body Mass Index (BMI) and prevalence of multimorbidity was assessed. We found that older people who engage in at least 2 h of physical activity/week had significantly lower prevalence of hypertension, obesity and heart diseases than those who engaged in 1–1.5 h/week or less than 1 h/week. Multimorbidity was present in 33.2% of subjects from the most active group and 52.6% of the least active ones. Subjective physical and psychological health was rated as “very good” by 26.6% and 41.2%, respectively, by subjects from the most active group. Only 9.1% of the least active subjects rated their physical health as “very good” and only 27.4% rated their psychological health as such. Regular physical activity may be a helpful tool in combating the reduced well-being of older people affected by the isolation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, over 65% of respondents claimed to engage in less than 1 h of PA a week or less. MDPI 2022-12-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9819469/ /pubmed/36612878 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20010556 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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Zimny-Zając, Anna
Dziankowska-Zaborszczyk, Elżbieta
Grodzicki, Tomasz
Drygas, Wojciech
Zdrojewski, Tomasz
Physical Activity versus Selected Health Behaviors, Subjective Physical and Psychological Health and Multimorbidity in a Large Cohort of Polish Seniors during the COVID-19 Pandemic (Results of the National Test for Poles’ Health )
title Physical Activity versus Selected Health Behaviors, Subjective Physical and Psychological Health and Multimorbidity in a Large Cohort of Polish Seniors during the COVID-19 Pandemic (Results of the National Test for Poles’ Health )
title_full Physical Activity versus Selected Health Behaviors, Subjective Physical and Psychological Health and Multimorbidity in a Large Cohort of Polish Seniors during the COVID-19 Pandemic (Results of the National Test for Poles’ Health )
title_fullStr Physical Activity versus Selected Health Behaviors, Subjective Physical and Psychological Health and Multimorbidity in a Large Cohort of Polish Seniors during the COVID-19 Pandemic (Results of the National Test for Poles’ Health )
title_full_unstemmed Physical Activity versus Selected Health Behaviors, Subjective Physical and Psychological Health and Multimorbidity in a Large Cohort of Polish Seniors during the COVID-19 Pandemic (Results of the National Test for Poles’ Health )
title_short Physical Activity versus Selected Health Behaviors, Subjective Physical and Psychological Health and Multimorbidity in a Large Cohort of Polish Seniors during the COVID-19 Pandemic (Results of the National Test for Poles’ Health )
title_sort physical activity versus selected health behaviors, subjective physical and psychological health and multimorbidity in a large cohort of polish seniors during the covid-19 pandemic (results of the national test for poles’ health )
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9819469/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36612878
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20010556
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