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No Evidence of Systematic Change of Physical Activity Patterns Before and During the Covid-19 Pandemic and Related Mood States Among Iranian Adults Attending Team Sports Activities Publisher



Aghababa A1 ; Zamani Sani SH2 ; Rohani H3 ; Nabilpour M4 ; Badicu G5 ; Fathirezaie Z6 ; Brand S7, 8, 9, 10
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  1. 1. Department of Sport Psychology, Sport Sciences Research Institute, Tehran, Iran
  2. 2. Department of Motor Behavior, Physical Education and Sport Sciences Faculty, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran
  3. 3. Department of Exercise Physiology, Sport Sciences Research Institute, Tehran, Iran
  4. 4. Department of Sports Physiology, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Mohaghegh Ardabili University, Ardabil, Iran
  5. 5. Department of Physical Education and Special Motricity, Faculty of Physical Education and Mountain Sports, Transilvania University of Brasov, Brasov, Romania
  6. 6. Motor Behavior Faculty, Physical Education and Sport Sciences Faculty, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran
  7. 7. Division of Sport Science, Department of Sport, Exercise and Health, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
  8. 8. Adult Psychiatric Clinics (UPKE), Center for Affective, Stress and Sleep Disorders (ZASS), University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
  9. 9. Substance Use Prevention Research Center and Sleep Disorder Research Center, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
  10. 10. School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Source: Frontiers in Psychology Published:2021


Abstract

Objective: To cope with the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic health authorities released social restrictions. Such social restrictions impacted on the people's possibilities to move deliberately in a public space and to gather with other people. In the present study, we investigated the impact of COVID-19-related restrictions (“confinement”) on physical activity (PA) patterns before and during the confinement among team sports participants. Such PA patterns were further related to current mood states, and possible sex differences were also explored. Methods: A total of 476 adults exercising team sport (football, futsal, volleyball, handball, and basketball; mean age: 24.66 years; 48.1% females) completed a series of self-rating questionnaires covering sociodemographic information, former and current PA patterns, and current mood states. Results: Compared with the period before the confinement, PA intensity decreased, but PA frequency increased during the confinement. Past, current, and changes in physical activity patterns were unrelated to participants' mood states. Sex differences in mood were spurious. Sex differences in physical activity patterns were modest, with male participants reporting a higher physical activity intensity during the confinement. Conclusions: The present pattern of results suggests that the COVID-19-related confinement did not impact in a uniform fashion on PA patterns of adults attending team sports. Furthermore, mood states were unrelated to current physical activity patterns. Given the complex psychosocial situation of COVID-19-related confinement, it appeared very unlikely that sole physical activity patterns could counterbalance possible impaired states of mood and behavior. © Copyright © 2021 Aghababa, Zamani Sani, Rohani, Nabilpour, Badicu, Fathirezaie and Brand.
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