Physical Activity and Nutritional Status of College Students During Covid-19 Pandemic

Introduction: The Large-Scale Social Restrictions (PSBB) has been carried out in Indonesia in early 2020 as an effort to prevent the global spread of Covid-19. The enforcement of distant learning can cause other problems, such as increased sedentary behaviour and obesity. This study aimed to analyse the physical activity and nutritional status of West Java college students during the Covid-19 pandemic. Methods: This study used a cross-sectional study design and conducted 1-2 months after the enforcement of the Large-Scale Social Restrictions in West Java. 330 students from 11 universities volunteered to become respondents of the study by filling out a questionnaire on Google Form. The IPAQ instrument was used to determine the level of physical activity and BMI to find out the nutritional status. Data were analysed by using the multinomial logistic regression. Results: The results showed 73.3% students have normal nutritional status and 40.6% performed the vigorous physical activity. Nutritional status did not correlate with physical activity of students (p=0.555, p> 0.5) but correlate with characteristics and physical activity as a model (p=0.021, p< 0.05). Study program partially correlate with nutritional status (p=0.008, p<0.05). Conclusion: The study concludes that age, sex, study program, and physical activity had a significant effect on nutritional status, although physical activity did not partially affect them. © 2021 UPM Press. All rights reserved.

Small-scale fishing families and their daily multiple-stressor on climate change and COVID-19: Preliminary findings

The COVID-19 pandemic situation is still ongoing in many countries in the world, including Indonesia. The positive case continues to increase every day and impacts our life, including the fisheries’ family. The fishery is a vulnerable sector to climate change, and this day worsened by a pandemic situation. This paper aims to understand the resources attached to fishing families facing various pressures and risks, forms of response, and adaptation within the fishing families. During COVID-19 pandemic situation, we have to carried out an online ethnographic approach by online-focused group discussion (FGD) to fisherman group and fisherman wives. Purworejo village was selected as a research site because it is the one with the largest number of small-scale fishing families in Java’s northern coastal area. The results show that various pressures and risks faced by fishery families, not only related to climate change and COVID-19 such as fishing season, limited resources, capital, and access, but also a risk on their internal family. In the context of fishery family resilience, each family member has a role in dealing with stressors, especially economic stressors. Fathers look for fish in the sea almost eight hours a day;children also go to sea when economic conditions continue to deteriorate;even a fisherman’s wife has the same responsibilities as her husband.