COVID-19 SOCIAL ISOLATION IN BRAZIL: EFFECTS ON THE PHYSICAL ACTIVITY ROUTINE OF FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN.
Rev Paul Pediatr
; 39: e2020159, 2020.
Article
in English, Portuguese
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-934371
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
To identify how Brazilian families with children aged under 13 years face the period of social isolation resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, especially regarding the time spent on physical activity (PA), intellectual activity, games, outdoor activities and screen.METHODS:
An anonymous online survey was launched on March 24, 2020 in Brazil to assess how families with children aged up to 12 years are adjusting their daily routines to this situation. In the survey, each family reported the daily time each child spent in sedentary activity (sum of intellectual activities, play time on screen, playing without PA) and PA (sum of playing with PA and PA).RESULTS:
The main findings based on data from 816 children indicate that most parents consider there was a reduction in the time that children spend practicing PA; increase in screen play time and family activities, differences between sex were found regarding screen play time (boys>girls) and in playing without PA (girls>boys), and there was an age effect for all categories analyzed, with a tendency to increase the total time of sedentary lifestyle and complementary reducing the time of PA over age.CONCLUSIONS:
The household routines of families during the period of social isolation resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic confirm the general reduction tendency in PA time during childhood.
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Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pneumonia, Viral
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Social Isolation
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Exercise
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Child Behavior
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Coronavirus Infections
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Sedentary Behavior
Type of study:
Experimental Studies
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Observational study
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Randomized controlled trials
Limits:
Child
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Child, preschool
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Country/Region as subject:
South America
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Brazil
Language:
English
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Portuguese
Journal:
Rev Paul Pediatr
Year:
2020
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
1984-0462
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