Did COVID-19 Pandemic Change People’s Physical Activity Distribution, Eating, and Alcohol Consumption Habits as well as Body Mass Index?

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dc.creatorSkurvydas, Albertas
dc.creatorLisinskiene, Ausra
dc.creatorLochbaum, Marc (TTU)
dc.creatorMajauskiene, Daiva
dc.creatorValanciene, Dovile
dc.creatorDadaliene, Ruta
dc.creatorFatkulina, Natalja
dc.creatorSarkauskiene, Asta
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-09T20:14:00Z
dc.date.available2022-05-09T20:14:00Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description© 2021 by the authors. 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/).en_US
dc.description.abstractThis cross-sectional study aimed to evaluate whether COVID-19 had an impact on people’s (aged 18–74) physical activity distribution, eating, and alcohol consumption habits as well as body mass index. We interviewed 6369 people (4545 women and 1824 men) in Lithuania before the COVID-19 pandemic started and 2392 during COVID-19 (1856 women and 536 men). They were aged 18–74 years. We found that both genders had not stopped their physical activity (PA) completely because of lockdown imitations (for example, prohibition from attending sport clubs), but they started doing different physical exercises at sport clubs. We determined the PA distribution according to the Danish Physical Activity Questionnaire (DPAQ). Despite increases in independent PA and the quantity of light PA, the amount of total energy used in metabolic equivalent of task (MET) units per day decreased significantly for both genders irrespective of age. Although the amounts of sedentary behavior, moderate PA (MPA), vigorous PA (VPA) or a combination of MPA and VPA (MVPA) did not change significantly. Surprisingly, lockdown reduced the duration of sleep for older women but increased their amount of intense VPA (>6 METs). However, the amount of intense VPA decreased for men. Both genders reported overeating less during the pandemic than before it, but did not start consuming more alcohol, and their body mass index did not change. Thus, the COVID-19 in Lithuania represented ‘good stress’ that mobilized these individuals to exercise more independently and overeat less.en_US
dc.identifier.citationSkurvydas A, Lisinskiene A, Lochbaum M, Majauskiene D, Valanciene D, Dadeliene R, Fatkulina N, Sarkauskiene A. Did COVID-19 Pandemic Change People’s Physical Activity Distribution, Eating, and Alcohol Consumption Habits as well as Body Mass Index? International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021; 18(23):12405. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182312405en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182312405
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2346/89166
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.subjectCOVID-19en_US
dc.subjectPhysical Activityen_US
dc.subjectEatingen_US
dc.subjectAlcohol Consumption Habitsen_US
dc.subjectBody Mass Indexen_US
dc.titleDid COVID-19 Pandemic Change People’s Physical Activity Distribution, Eating, and Alcohol Consumption Habits as well as Body Mass Index?en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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