Physical Activity Patterns in University Students: Do They Follow the Public Health Guidelines?

The actual COVID-19 pandemic scenario has generated a context of uncertainty, helplessness, and inequality. Yet, the perception of COVID-19 risk has influenced nutritional, psychological, and physical activity patterns depending on gender. We conducted the present research with the aim of studying gender differences of university students in the perceived risk of the COVID-19 pandemic, and in psychological, nutritional, oral health, and physical activity habits. To reach the study’s aim, 300 volunteer university students completed an online questionnaire which analyzed variables of perceived risk of the COVID-19 pandemic, psychological profiles, and nutritional, oral health, and physical activity habits. Results showed that females presented a higher perception of danger to the COVID-19 virus than males but showed no differences in how the pandemic has affected personal lives. Females showed higher values of anxiety, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness to experience, while males presented higher values of extraversion. Nutritionally, males presented greater consumption of soft drinks, meat, and pasta or rice, and lower buccal hygiene. Yet, no differences were found regarding physical activity patterns. Results from the present study could be used by various educational institutions to implement multidisciplinary interventions to reduce the stress and risk perception.

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IMPACT OF A HEALTH-RELATED FITNESS COURSE ON PHYSICAL ACTIVITY PATTERNS OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise ◽

10.1097/00005768-200105001-01187 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 33 (5) ◽

pp. S211

Author(s):

M A. Collins ◽

B Goldfine ◽

M V. Nahas ◽

J Petrillo ◽

C Ash ◽

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Keyword(s):

Physical Activity ◽

University Students ◽

Activity Patterns ◽

Physical Activity Patterns ◽

Health Related ◽

Health Related Fitness

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What Psychosocial Factors Determine the Physical Activity Patterns of University Students?

Journal of Physical Activity and Health ◽

10.1123/jpah.2018-0205 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 16 (5) ◽

pp. 325-332 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Joseph J. Murphy ◽

Ciaran MacDonncha ◽

Marie H. Murphy ◽

Niamh Murphy ◽

Alan M. Nevill ◽

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Keyword(s):

Physical Activity ◽

University Students ◽

Psychosocial Factors ◽

Activity Patterns ◽

Physical Activity Patterns

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Physical Activity Patterns Among Patients with Intracardiac Remote Monitoring Devices Before, During, and After COVID-19-related Public Health Restrictions

10.1101/2021.02.27.21252558 ◽

2021 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Yuan Lu ◽

Karthik Murugiah ◽

Paul W Jones ◽

Daisy S Massey ◽

Shiwani Mahajan ◽

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Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Physical Activity ◽

New York ◽

Remote Monitoring ◽

Activity Patterns ◽

Saint Paul ◽

Unintended Consequences ◽

Mitigation Strategies ◽

Physical Activity Patterns ◽

Cardiac Devices

ABSTRACTNationwide public health restrictions due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic have disrupted people’s routine physical activities, yet little objective information is available on the extent to which physical activity has changed among patients with pre-existing cardiac diseases. Using remote monitoring data of 9,924 patients with pacemakers and implantable cardiac defibrillators (ICDs) living in New York City and Minneapolis/Saint Paul, we assessed physical activity patterns among these patients in 2019 and 2020 from January through October. We found marked declines in physical activity among patients with implantable cardiac devices during COVID-19-related restrictions and the reduction was consistent across age and sex subgroups. Moreover, physical activity among these vulnerable patients did not return to pre-restrictions levels several months after COVID-19 restrictions were eased. Our findings highlight the need to consider the unintended consequences of mitigation strategies and develop approaches to encourage safe physical activity during the pandemic.

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Using Mobile Health Intervention to Explore the Daily Physical Activity Patterns among University Students: Observational Study (Preprint)

10.2196/preprints.19208 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Shao-Wei Yeh ◽

Chun-Yan Yuan ◽

Yu-Feng Wu ◽

Rui Shen

Keyword(s):

Physical Activity ◽

Physical Exercise ◽

University Students ◽

Mobile Health ◽

Activity Patterns ◽

Exercise Duration ◽

School Intervention ◽

Sedentary Behaviors ◽

Exercise Participation ◽

Daily Exercise

BACKGROUND Promoting physical activity for adolescence is a global challenge in public health. Physical inactivity and sedentary behaviors have been regarded to cause harmful chronic diseases to adolescent lifespan. However, high engagement in mobile technology for students may provide opportunities to help change adolescent unhealthy behaviors. Therefore, school sectors may play an important key role, such as implementing mobile health (mHealth) intervention to change students’ unhealthy behaviors and promote regular physical exercise behaviors, especially during the transition from adolescence to young adult. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to explore university students’ daily exercise patterns upon intervention of school-based mHealth project. METHODS Students’ physical exercise participation was recorded with students’ mobile application. With 4152 university freshmen (1476 males, 2676 females) and 335898 of their exercise records were analyzed (mean frequency of 38.2 ±16.10 in males, 45.1±10.81 in females) during the semester. RESULTS Under the school intervention project, students that exercised on Friday and Saturday was lower than that on other days, which indicated that the participation in exercise were more active on weekdays than on weekends. Among the participants who completed the requirement set by the school intervention project, both males and females used weekends to do exercise. On the other hand, overweight male university students participated in physical activity more than the requirement of the school intervention project and their exercise duration were found to be significantly higher than other participants. CONCLUSIONS Understanding a week of daily exercise patterns among youth upon the school mHealth Apps intervention can benefit in developing efficient and flexible projects to promote physical health and improve regular exercise participation in youth.

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