COVID-19大流行影响了个人身体活动水平。关于大流行期间社会人口统计学和建筑环境等因素与身体活动参与的关系知之甚少。了解这些因素对于告知未来的传染病缓解政策至关重要,而不是阻碍身体活动。这项研究的目的是评估大流行开始(2020年4月至6月)期间身体活动水平的预测因素,包括在家逗留时间和订单,邻里安全,和社会人口特征。
数据包括517名参与者,他们回答了匿名在线调查。使用改良的Godin休闲时间运动问卷评估身体活动。我们使用逻辑回归模型来估计独立变量之间的关联的未调整和调整后的比值比(aOR)及其95%置信区间(CI)(例如,人口统计学变量,邻里安全,COVID呆在家里的顺序和时间长度)和未达到的身体活动水平(即,<600代谢当量的任务[MET]-分钟/周)或符合指南(即,≥600MET-分钟/周)。我们使用R-Studio开源版本来清理和编码数据,并使用SASV9.4进行分析。
大多数参与者年龄在18-45岁(58%),女性(79%)西班牙裔(58%),和大学/研究生(76%)。大多数(70%)报告符合身体活动指南。在按收入分层的多变量调整分析中,在收入最高的人群(≥$70,000)中,拥有宠物与满足体育活动指南的较高几率相关(aOR=2.37,95%CI:1.23,4.55),但是这种关联对于其他收入群体并不存在。我们还发现,较低的感知社区安全性与满足体力活动指南的几率显着降低相关(aOR=0.15,95%CI:0.04-0.61),但仅限于收入最低的人群(<40,000美元)。在这个最低收入范围内,我们还发现,较低的教育水平与满足体育活动指南的几率降低相关.
我们发现感知到的邻里安全,在COVID-19大流行的最初几个月,教育和拥有宠物与达到体育活动指南有关,但协会因收入而异。这些发现可以为在随后的COVID-19浪潮或未来大流行期间促进身体活动提供有针对性的方法。
The COVID-19 pandemic impacted individual physical activity levels. Less is known regarding how factors such as sociodemographic and built environment were associated with physical activity engagement during the pandemic. Understanding these factors is critical to informing future infectious disease mitigation policies that promote, rather than hinder physical activity. The purpose of this study was to assess predictors of physical activity levels during the beginning of the pandemic (April-June 2020), including Stay-at-Home length and orders, neighborhood safety, and sociodemographic characteristics.
Data included 517 participants who responded to an anonymous online survey. Physical activity was assessed with a modified Godin Leisure-time exercise questionnaire. We used logistic regression models to estimate unadjusted and adjusted odds ratios (aOR) and their 95% confidence intervals (CI) for the associations between independent variables (e.g., demographic variables, neighborhood safety, COVID Stay-at-Home order and length of time) and physical activity levels that did not meet (i.e., < 600 metabolic equivalents of task [MET]-minutes/week) or met
guidelines (i.e., ≥ 600 MET-minutes/week). We used R-Studio open-source edition to clean and code data and SAS V9.4 for analyses.
Most participants were 18-45 years old (58%), female (79%), Hispanic (58%), and college/post-graduates (76%). Most (70%) reported meeting physical activity
guidelines. In multivariate-adjusted analyses stratified by income, in the highest income bracket (≥ $70,000) pet ownership was associated with higher odds of meeting physical activity
guidelines (aOR = 2.37, 95% CI: 1.23, 4.55), but this association did not persist for other income groups. We also found lower perceived neighborhood safety was associated with significantly lower odds of meeting physical activity
guidelines (aOR = 0.15, 95% CI:0.04-0.61), but only among individuals in the lowest income bracket (< $40,000). Within this lowest income bracket, we also found that a lower level of education was associated with reduced odds of meeting physical activity
guidelines.
We found that perceived neighborhood safety, education and pet ownership were associated with meeting physical activity guidelines during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, but associations differed by income. These findings can inform targeted approaches to promoting physical activity during subsequent waves of COVID-19 or future pandemics.