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Work from home and the association with sedentary behaviors, leisure-time and domestic physical activity in the ELSA-Brasil study

BACKGROUND: Work from home (WFH) can impact workers´ sedentary behaviors and levels of physical activity. The aim of this study was to estimate the association between WFH and workers´ sedentary behaviors, leisure-time and domestic physical activities during the COVID-19 pandemic and verify whether...

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Autores principales: de Oliveira da Silva Scaranni, Patricia, Griep, Rosane Härter, Pitanga, Francisco José Gondim, Barreto, Sandhi Maria, Matos, Sheila Maria Alvim, de Jesus Mendes da Fonseca, Maria
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9912204/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36765304
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-15167-z
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Pitanga, Francisco José Gondim
Barreto, Sandhi Maria
Matos, Sheila Maria Alvim
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Pitanga, Francisco José Gondim
Barreto, Sandhi Maria
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description BACKGROUND: Work from home (WFH) can impact workers´ sedentary behaviors and levels of physical activity. The aim of this study was to estimate the association between WFH and workers´ sedentary behaviors, leisure-time and domestic physical activities during the COVID-19 pandemic and verify whether age and sex may act as effect modifiers. METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional study of 2544 participants in the supplementary study on COVID-19 in the Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil) from July 2020 to February 2021. We assessed screen time (≤ 8 h/day versus > 8 h/day), accumulated sitting time (≤ 8 h/day versus > 8 h/day) as sedentary behaviors on a typical day, and leisure-time (active versus inactive, according to World Health Organization recommendations) and domestic (low versus high, according to median) physical activity, using the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ), before and during social distancing. Logistic regression models were used. RESULTS: Participants that were working from home during social distancing showed increased odds of screen time and sitting time greater than 8 h/day (OR = 3.12; 95%CI: 2.32–4.20 and OR = 2.68; 95%CI: 2.02–3.56, respectively) and higher odds of high domestic physical activity (OR = 1.29; 95%CI: 0.99–1.67) when compared to those not working from home. There was no association between WFH and leisure-time physical activity (OR = 0.99, 95%CI: 0.75,1.31). Age was an effect modifier in the association between WFH and leisure-time physical activity and domestic activity. Older people working from home showed higher odds of physical inactivity (OR = 1.84, 95%CI: 1.07,3.16) and high domestic physical activity (OR = 1.92, 95%CI: 1.12,3.27) compared to older people not working from home. CONCLUSION: WFH was associated with sedentary behavior > 8 h/day and high domestic physical activity. In the older people, WFH was associated with physical inactivity and high domestic physical activity. As sedentary behavior and physical inactivity are consistently negatively associated with health, it is important to discuss policies to manage WFH that allow pauses from physical activities and performance of hours of work within preestablished limits to reduce sedentary behavior. In addition, individuals working from home, especially the older people, should be encouraged to engage in leisure-time physical activity as a form of health promotion.
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spelling pubmed-99122042023-02-10 Work from home and the association with sedentary behaviors, leisure-time and domestic physical activity in the ELSA-Brasil study de Oliveira da Silva Scaranni, Patricia Griep, Rosane Härter Pitanga, Francisco José Gondim Barreto, Sandhi Maria Matos, Sheila Maria Alvim de Jesus Mendes da Fonseca, Maria BMC Public Health Research BACKGROUND: Work from home (WFH) can impact workers´ sedentary behaviors and levels of physical activity. The aim of this study was to estimate the association between WFH and workers´ sedentary behaviors, leisure-time and domestic physical activities during the COVID-19 pandemic and verify whether age and sex may act as effect modifiers. METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional study of 2544 participants in the supplementary study on COVID-19 in the Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil) from July 2020 to February 2021. We assessed screen time (≤ 8 h/day versus > 8 h/day), accumulated sitting time (≤ 8 h/day versus > 8 h/day) as sedentary behaviors on a typical day, and leisure-time (active versus inactive, according to World Health Organization recommendations) and domestic (low versus high, according to median) physical activity, using the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ), before and during social distancing. Logistic regression models were used. RESULTS: Participants that were working from home during social distancing showed increased odds of screen time and sitting time greater than 8 h/day (OR = 3.12; 95%CI: 2.32–4.20 and OR = 2.68; 95%CI: 2.02–3.56, respectively) and higher odds of high domestic physical activity (OR = 1.29; 95%CI: 0.99–1.67) when compared to those not working from home. There was no association between WFH and leisure-time physical activity (OR = 0.99, 95%CI: 0.75,1.31). Age was an effect modifier in the association between WFH and leisure-time physical activity and domestic activity. Older people working from home showed higher odds of physical inactivity (OR = 1.84, 95%CI: 1.07,3.16) and high domestic physical activity (OR = 1.92, 95%CI: 1.12,3.27) compared to older people not working from home. CONCLUSION: WFH was associated with sedentary behavior > 8 h/day and high domestic physical activity. In the older people, WFH was associated with physical inactivity and high domestic physical activity. As sedentary behavior and physical inactivity are consistently negatively associated with health, it is important to discuss policies to manage WFH that allow pauses from physical activities and performance of hours of work within preestablished limits to reduce sedentary behavior. In addition, individuals working from home, especially the older people, should be encouraged to engage in leisure-time physical activity as a form of health promotion. BioMed Central 2023-02-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9912204/ /pubmed/36765304 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-15167-z Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver ( http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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de Oliveira da Silva Scaranni, Patricia
Griep, Rosane Härter
Pitanga, Francisco José Gondim
Barreto, Sandhi Maria
Matos, Sheila Maria Alvim
de Jesus Mendes da Fonseca, Maria
Work from home and the association with sedentary behaviors, leisure-time and domestic physical activity in the ELSA-Brasil study
title Work from home and the association with sedentary behaviors, leisure-time and domestic physical activity in the ELSA-Brasil study
title_full Work from home and the association with sedentary behaviors, leisure-time and domestic physical activity in the ELSA-Brasil study
title_fullStr Work from home and the association with sedentary behaviors, leisure-time and domestic physical activity in the ELSA-Brasil study
title_full_unstemmed Work from home and the association with sedentary behaviors, leisure-time and domestic physical activity in the ELSA-Brasil study
title_short Work from home and the association with sedentary behaviors, leisure-time and domestic physical activity in the ELSA-Brasil study
title_sort work from home and the association with sedentary behaviors, leisure-time and domestic physical activity in the elsa-brasil study
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9912204/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36765304
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-15167-z
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