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Stay home and stay active? The impact of stay-at-home restrictions on physical activity routines in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Eshelby, Victoria, Sogut, Muhammed, Jolly, Kate, Vlaev, Ivo and Elliott, Mark T. (2022) Stay home and stay active? The impact of stay-at-home restrictions on physical activity routines in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Sports Sciences, 40 (3). pp. 310-322. doi:10.1080/02640414.2021.1992885 ISSN 0264-0414.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02640414.2021.1992885
Abstract
We investigated which population groups were impacted most in terms of physical activity levels during the restrictions applied during the COVID-19 pandemic. We surveyed UK residents, sampled through users of a rewards-for-exercise app (Sweatcoin; n = 749) and an online panel (Prolific; n = 907). Of the app users, n = 487 further provided daily step-count data collected by the app, prior to, and during the periods of restrictions in the UK between March-June 2020. Regression models were used to investigate factors associated with self-reported change in physical activity and change in daily step-count during the periods of restrictions. Significant factors associated with self-reported change in physical activity included rural residents (positive, b = 0.87, p < 0.001), relative to urban dwellers, people classed as obese (negative, b = −0.51, p = 0.008, relative to healthy weight) and gym users (negative, b = −1.10, p < 0.001, relative to walkers). All groups had reduced step counts during restrictions, with Black, Asian and minority ethnic groups showing greater reductions compared to White British ethnicity (negative, b = −0.18, p = 0.008). Targeted interventions are required to ensure that physical and mental health impacts of sedentary behaviour are not exacerbated over the long-term by significant reductions in physical activity identified in these groups particularly those who are also more vulnerable to COVID-19.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Behavioural Science Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Engineering > WMG (Formerly the Warwick Manufacturing Group) |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- , COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- Great Britain, COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- Great Britain -- Health aspects, Exercise -- Health aspects, Restraining orders, Social isolation-- Health aspects | ||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Sports Sciences | ||||||||||||
Publisher: | Taylor and Francis | ||||||||||||
ISSN: | 0264-0414 | ||||||||||||
Official Date: | 2022 | ||||||||||||
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Volume: | 40 | ||||||||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 310-322 | ||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/02640414.2021.1992885 | ||||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 25 October 2021 | ||||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 10 November 2021 | ||||||||||||
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