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Trial reportScientific reports2021

Longitudinal changes in physical activity during and after the first national lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic in England.

Feifei Bu, Jessica K Bone, John J Mitchell, Andrew Steptoe, Daisy Fancourt

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Trial report in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 67 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

67 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Feifei BuDepartment of Behavioral Science and Health, University College London, 1-19 Torrington Place, London, WC1E 7HB, UK. f.bu@ucl.ac.uk.
Jessica K BoneDepartment of Behavioral Science and Health, University College London, 1-19 Torrington Place, London, WC1E 7HB, UK.
John J MitchellInstitute of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK.
Andrew SteptoeDepartment of Behavioral Science and Health, University College London, 1-19 Torrington Place, London, WC1E 7HB, UK.
Daisy FancourtDepartment of Behavioral Science and Health, University College London, 1-19 Torrington Place, London, WC1E 7HB, UK.

Funding

Nuffield Foundation WEL/FR-000022583UK Research and Innovation ES/S002588/1Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 205407/Z/16/ZWellcome Trust 221400/Z/20/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent studies have shown reduced physical activity at early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, there is a lack of investigation on longitudinal changes in physical activity beyond lockdowns and stay-at-home orders. Moreover, it is unclear if there is heterogeneity in physical activity growth trajectories. This study aimed to explore longitudinal patterns of physical activity and factors associated with them. Data were from the UCL COVID-19 Social Study. The analytical sample consisted of 35,915 adults in England who were followed up for 22 weeks from 24th March to 23rd August 2020. Data were analysed using growth mixture models. Our analyses identified six classes of growth trajectories, including three stable classes showing little change over time (62.4% in total), two classes showing decreasing physical activity (28.6%), and one class showing increasing physical activity over time (9%). A range of factors were found to be associated the class membership of physical activity trajectories, such as age, gender, education, income, employment status, and health. There is substantial heterogeneity in longitudinal changes in physical activity during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, a substantial proportion of our sample showed persistent physical inactivity or decreasing physical activity. Given the well-established link between physical activity and health, persistent or increased physical inactivity is likely to have both immediate and long-term implications for people's physical and mental health, as well as general wellbeing. More efforts are needed to promote physical activity during the pandemic and beyond.

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COVID-19ExerciseMental HealthQuarantineSARS-CoV-2AdolescentAdultAgedEnglandFemaleFollow-Up StudiesHumansMaleMiddle Aged

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PMID34475465
PMCPMC8413348

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