Changes in Sitting Time, Screen Exposure and Physical Activity during COVID-19 Lockdown in South American Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study

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Changes in Sitting Time, Screen Exposure and Physical Activity during COVID-19 Lockdown in South American Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study

Gabriela Fernanda De Roia David Martínez-gómez David Martínez-gómez Carlos Cristi-montero Pablo Lobo Jacob D. Meyer Igor Grabovac Marco Solmi Cristina M. Caperchione Mark A. Tully Alejandro Gil-salmerón Gerson Ferrari Kabir P. Sadarangani Kabir P. Sadarangani Hosam Alzahrani Felipe Barreto Schuch Nicola Veronese Lee Smith Robinson Chavez

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Adult medicine.medical_specialty Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Medicina Cross-sectional study Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Argentina Physical activity Toxicology Article 03 medical and health sciences Screen time 0302 clinical medicine Humans Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Chile Health behavior Exercise Public health Sitting Position SARS-CoV-2 business.industry Public health R Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health COVID-19 030229 sport sciences Sedentary behavior Screen time Sitting time Sedentary behavior Cross-Sectional Studies South american Communicable Disease Control Medicine business Demography

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The worldwide prevalence of insufficient physical activity (PA) and prolonged sedentary behavior (SB) were high before the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Measures that were taken by governments (such as home confinement) to control the spread of COVID-19 may have affected levels of PA and SB. This cross-sectional study among South American adults during the first months of COVID-19 aims to (i) compare sitting time (ST), screen exposure, moderate PA (MPA), vigorous PA (VPA), and moderate-to-vigorous PA (MVPA) before and during lockdown to sociodemographic correlates and (ii) to assess the impact of lockdown on combinations of groups reporting meeting/not-meeting PA recommendations and engaging/not-engaging excessive ST (≥7 h/day). Bivariate associations, effect sizes, and multivariable linear regressions were used. Adults from Argentina (n = 575) and Chile (n = 730) completed an online survey with questions regarding demographics, lifestyle factors, and chronic diseases. Mean reductions of 42.7 and 22.0 min./day were shown in MPA and VPA, respectively

year	journal	country	edition	language
2021-05-14	International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18105239