Exercise frequency during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal probability survey of the US population.

ABSTRACT: Regular physical activity is important for general health and reduces the risk for COVID-19 infections and for severe outcomes among infected people. However, measures to mitigate COVID-19 likely decrease population physical activity. This study aimed to examine 1) changes in exercise frequency in a representative sample of US adults during the pandemic (04/01/2020-07/21/2021), and 2) how sociodemographic characteristics, pre-COVID health-related behaviors and outcomes, and state-level stringency of COVID-19 containment measures predict exercise frequency. Self-reported exercise frequency and its individual-level predictors were determined based on 151,155 observations from 6,540 adult participants (aged ≥ 18 years) in all US states from the Understanding America Study. State-level stringe

SUBMITTER: Wijngaards I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8710431 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature