2023
DOI: 10.1186/s12966-023-01441-1
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Short and medium-term effects of the COVID-19 lockdowns on child and parent accelerometer-measured physical activity and sedentary time: a natural experiment

Abstract: Background The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in marked impacts on children’s physical activity, with large reductions in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) reported during lockdowns. Previous evidence showed children’s activity levels were lower and sedentary time higher immediately post-COVID lockdown, while there was little change in parental physical activity. We need to know if these patterns persist. Methods Active-6 is a natural e… Show more

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“…Active-6 quantitative methods have been published in detail elsewhere [ 12 , 15 ]. In short, B-Proact1v was a five-year longitudinal study of children and their parents/carers.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Active-6 quantitative methods have been published in detail elsewhere [ 12 , 15 ]. In short, B-Proact1v was a five-year longitudinal study of children and their parents/carers.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…To evaluate the impact of the pandemic on children’s physical activity in England, we developed the Active-6 project, adopting a repeated cross-sectional natural experiment design which compared an existing pre-pandemic dataset of children aged 10–11 years’ physical activity levels collected in 2017/18 to new data collected during/after the pandemic [ 12 – 19 ]. Findings from this project suggest that, after a short-term drop in 2021, average children’s MVPA had recovered to pre-pandemic levels by mid-2022, although weekday sedentary time remained elevated by around 13 min per day [ 15 , 20 ]. Despite this recovery, it is important to highlight that the majority of children (59%) in the study still did not meet physical activity guidelines [ 15 ].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Variation in levels of physical activity have been found to be driving health inequalities highlighting the importance of tracking levels of activity and identifying correlates of activity among populations [1][2][3]. The COVID-19 pandemic had a major impact on levels of physical activity [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]. Among the identified impacts of lockdown is an avoidance of larger events found in runners in Greece [4].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This leaves a key question. If lockdown impacted the demographics of those engaging in physical exercise do those impacts extend into the post-lockdown era [10]? Large-scale studies investigating changes in the patterns of exercising are urgently needed to address this question [12].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%