Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Perceived Exercise Benefits and Barriers

Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Perceived Exercise Benefits and Barriers: Cross Sectional Study on Turkish Society and Interpretation With Physical Activity Level

It is aimed to determine the physical activity level and exercise benefits and barriers caused by Covid-19 pandemic and reveal the relationship between them.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: COVID; Isolation, Social
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Online Survey

Detailed Description

Study hypothesis that people are tend to be physically inactive while Covid-19 pandemic. It is aimed to determine the exercise benefits and barriers caused by Covid-19 pandemic and reveal the relationship among gender, age, marial status and physical activity level.

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 392

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Turkey
  • Istanbul, Turkey, 34959
    • Istanbul Okan University

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 15 years to 65 years (Child, Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

The population of the individuals between 15 - 65 ages in Turkey is 56.391.925 people. It is calculated that there are 42.463.119 individuals cover the criterion as universe of the study.

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• being Turkish
• understanding Turkish
• being between the age of 15 - 65
• being literate
• have internet access

Exclusion Criteria:

• having a disable condition to exercise
• having missing value on outcome measures
• giving incomprehensible answering

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Number of groups / cohorts

1

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort	Intervention / Treatment
Turkish society; Individuals speak Turkish and lives in Turkey, ages between 15 - 65, literate and with internet access	Other: Online Survey; Volunteer individuals enrolled the study after approval an online informed consent form. Sociodemographic data of the participants recorded as an online survey. Then, patient reported outcomes were used to assess physical activity level (International Physical Actvity Questionairre) and Exercise Benefits and Barriers (Exercise Benefits and Barriers Scale).

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Exercise Benefits and Barriers Scale	The Exercise Benefits/Barriers Scale (EBBS) was developed in response to a need for an instrument to determine perceptions of individuals concerning the benefits of and barriers to participating in exercise. The instrument may be scored and used in its entirety or as two separate scales. The instrument has a four-response, forced-choice Likert-type format with responses ranging from 4 (strongly agree) to 1 (strongly disagree). Scores on the total instrument can range from 43 to 172. The higher the score, the more positively the individual perceives exercise. When the Benefits Scale is used alone, the score range is between 29 and 116. When the Barriers Scale is used alone, scores range between 14 and 56. If used alone, the Barriers Scale does not need to be reverse-scored. In this instance, the higher the score on the Barriers Scale, the greater the perception of barriers to exercise.	three months after Covid 19 recognised as pandemic
Sociodemographic information	Participants will be asked to give information about: age, gender, educational status, height, weight, occupation, working status, whether they have a chronic disease.	three months after Covid 19 recognised as pandemic

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
International Physical Activity Questionairre	The IPAQ-S developed for participants to report activities performed for at least 10 minutes during the last 7 days. Respondents will be asked to report time spent in physical activity performed across leisure time, work, domestic activities, and transport at each of 3 intensities: walking, moderate, and vigorous. Using the instrument's scoring protocol total weekly physical activity was estimated by weighting time spent in each activity intensity with its estimated metabolic equivalent (MET) energy expenditure. The IPAQ scoring protocol assigns the following MET values to walking, moderate, and vigorous intensity activity: 3.3 METs, 4.0 METs, and 8.0 METs, respectively. Participants will be considered to have met American Collage of Sports Medicine physical activity recommendations. if they reported at least 150 min/wk of walking, moderate, or vigorous intensity physical activity.	three months after Covid 19 recognised as pandemic

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Okan University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): June 1, 2020
• Primary Completion (Actual): June 8, 2020
• Study Completion (Actual): June 8, 2020

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: May 30, 2020
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 30, 2020
• First Posted (Actual): June 2, 2020

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): June 11, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 8, 2020
• Last Verified: June 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Covid 19; Social Isolation; Physical activity level; Turkish Society; Exercise benefits and barriers
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Coronavirus Infections; Coronaviridae Infections; Nidovirales Infections; RNA Virus Infections; Virus Diseases; Infections; Respiratory Tract Infections; Respiratory Tract Diseases; Pneumonia, Viral; Pneumonia; Lung Diseases; COVID-19
• Other Study ID Numbers: 500600127

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO
• IPD Plan Description: Data wil be stored by researches, if needed for scientific purposes, it can be discussed to share .

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No