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Abstract：
The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting lockdown countermeasure may have significantly affected adolescents\' physical and mental health. This study aims to assess adolescents\' recollections of this period, also analyzing their current weight status along with factors they traced back to the epidemic phase and their current sports practice. A survey among 233 Italian adolescents aged 12.4 ± 0.9 years was conducted in October 2023. To achieve the research objectives, a new questionnaire was developed: the COVID-19 AdolesceNt/chilDren Lockdown Experience questionnaire (CANDLE). The new questionnaire was employed to gather data on the adolescents\' recollections of the lockdown situation they experienced. The stature and weight of participants were measured directly. The results indicated that middle schoolers remember both positive and negative experiences of the lockdown: the change perceived as the most positive was spending more time with family, while social detachment from peers represents the most negative aspect. According to multivariate regression analysis, certain behaviors they assumed during the lockdown, such as comfort food consumption in boys and sleeping disturbances in girls, in addition to their current sports practice, affected their actual Body Mass Index. This study supports the evidence that changes caused by the COVID-19 lockdown affected adolescents\' physical and mental health, albeit with sex differences.
摘要：
COVID-19大流行和由此产生的封锁对策可能严重影响了青少年的身心健康。这项研究旨在评估青少年对这一时期的回忆，还分析了他们目前的体重状况，以及他们追溯到流行阶段和当前运动实践的因素。2023年10月对233名12.4±0.9岁的意大利青少年进行了调查。为了实现研究目标，开发了一份新的问卷：COVID-19青少年Nt/children锁定体验问卷（CADLE）。新的问卷被用来收集青少年对他们所经历的封锁情况的回忆数据。直接测量参与者的身材和体重。结果表明，中学生记住了封锁的积极和消极经历：被认为是最积极的变化是花更多的时间与家人在一起，而与同龄人的社会脱离代表了最消极的方面。根据多元回归分析，他们在封锁期间采取的某些行为，例如男孩的舒适食物消费和女孩的睡眠障碍，除了他们目前的运动实践，影响了他们的实际体重指数。这项研究支持了由COVID-19封锁引起的变化影响青少年身心健康的证据，尽管有性别差异。
