Health-Related Behaviors Among School-Aged Children and Adolescents During the Spanish Covid-19 Confinement
In response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) world pandemic, affected countries such as Spain enacted measures comprising compulsory confinement as well as restrictions regarding free movement. Such measures likely influence children's and adolescents' lifestyles. Our study aimed...
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doaj-a73a5cc43e46447d9f0f1eef5ad4c1992020-11-25T03:42:23ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Pediatrics2296-23602020-09-01810.3389/fped.2020.00573576641Health-Related Behaviors Among School-Aged Children and Adolescents During the Spanish Covid-19 ConfinementRubén López-Bueno0Guillermo F. López-Sánchez1José A. Casajús2Joaquín Calatayud3Alejandro Gil-Salmerón4Igor Grabovac5Mark A. Tully6Lee Smith7Department of Physical Medicine and Nursing, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, SpainFaculty of Sport Sciences, University of Murcia, Murcia, SpainFaculty of Health Sciences, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, SpainExercise Intervention for Health Research Group (EXINH-RG), Department of Physiotherapy, University of Valencia, Valencia, SpainPolibienestar Research Institute, University of Valencia, Valencia, SpainDepartment of Social and Preventive Medicine, Centre for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, AustriaInstitute of Mental Health Sciences, School of Health Sciences, Ulster University, Newtownabbey, United KingdomCambridge Centre for Sport and Exercise Science, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, United KingdomIn response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) world pandemic, affected countries such as Spain enacted measures comprising compulsory confinement as well as restrictions regarding free movement. Such measures likely influence children's and adolescents' lifestyles. Our study aimed to investigate the impact that the Covid-19 confinement has on health-related behaviors (HRBs) among Spanish children and adolescents. An online survey was administered to 516 parents to collect data about 860 children and adolescents (49.2% girls) aged between 3 and 16 years in relation to physical activity, screen exposure, sleep time, and fruit and vegetable consumption during the Covid-19 confinement. Respectively, t-paired test and t-test between groups served to check differences between HRBs levels before and during the confinement as well as between strict and relaxed confinement. Significant differences were found for a reduction of weekly minutes of physical activity during the confinement (−102.5, SD 159.6) (p < 0.001), an increase of daily hours of screen exposure (2.9, SD 2.1) (p < 0.001), and a reduction of daily fruit and vegetable consumption (−0.2, SD 1.6) (p < 0.001). Sleep time showed a significant difference between strict and relaxed confinement (−0.3, SD 0.1) (p < 0.05), whereas binomial logistic regression adjusted for covariates (age, sex, education of the parents, siblings, current condition, exposure to Covid-19, and previous health risk behavior) showed significantly lower odds for screen exposure risk behavior with relaxed confinement (OR 0.60, 95%CI 0.40–0.91). The present study suggests that Covid-19 confinement reduced physical activity levels, increased both screen exposure and sleep time, and reduced fruit and vegetable consumption. Therefore, most HRBs worsened among this sample of Spanish children and adolescents. Closure of schools, online education, and the lack of policies addressing the conciliation between labor and family life could have played an important role in HRBs worsening among pupils, which might be mitigated with adequate conciliation policies, parental guidance, and community support.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fped.2020.00573/fullchildrenadolescentshealth-related behaviorslifestyle habitscoronavirus diseaseconfinement |
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Rubén López-Bueno Guillermo F. López-Sánchez José A. Casajús Joaquín Calatayud Alejandro Gil-Salmerón Igor Grabovac Mark A. Tully Lee Smith Health-Related Behaviors Among School-Aged Children and Adolescents During the Spanish Covid-19 Confinement Frontiers in Pediatrics children adolescents health-related behaviors lifestyle habits coronavirus disease confinement |
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Rubén López-Bueno Guillermo F. López-Sánchez José A. Casajús Joaquín Calatayud Alejandro Gil-Salmerón Igor Grabovac Mark A. Tully Lee Smith |
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Health-Related Behaviors Among School-Aged Children and Adolescents During the Spanish Covid-19 Confinement |
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Health-Related Behaviors Among School-Aged Children and Adolescents During the Spanish Covid-19 Confinement |
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Health-Related Behaviors Among School-Aged Children and Adolescents During the Spanish Covid-19 Confinement |
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Health-Related Behaviors Among School-Aged Children and Adolescents During the Spanish Covid-19 Confinement |
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Health-Related Behaviors Among School-Aged Children and Adolescents During the Spanish Covid-19 Confinement |
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health-related behaviors among school-aged children and adolescents during the spanish covid-19 confinement |
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In response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) world pandemic, affected countries such as Spain enacted measures comprising compulsory confinement as well as restrictions regarding free movement. Such measures likely influence children's and adolescents' lifestyles. Our study aimed to investigate the impact that the Covid-19 confinement has on health-related behaviors (HRBs) among Spanish children and adolescents. An online survey was administered to 516 parents to collect data about 860 children and adolescents (49.2% girls) aged between 3 and 16 years in relation to physical activity, screen exposure, sleep time, and fruit and vegetable consumption during the Covid-19 confinement. Respectively, t-paired test and t-test between groups served to check differences between HRBs levels before and during the confinement as well as between strict and relaxed confinement. Significant differences were found for a reduction of weekly minutes of physical activity during the confinement (−102.5, SD 159.6) (p < 0.001), an increase of daily hours of screen exposure (2.9, SD 2.1) (p < 0.001), and a reduction of daily fruit and vegetable consumption (−0.2, SD 1.6) (p < 0.001). Sleep time showed a significant difference between strict and relaxed confinement (−0.3, SD 0.1) (p < 0.05), whereas binomial logistic regression adjusted for covariates (age, sex, education of the parents, siblings, current condition, exposure to Covid-19, and previous health risk behavior) showed significantly lower odds for screen exposure risk behavior with relaxed confinement (OR 0.60, 95%CI 0.40–0.91). The present study suggests that Covid-19 confinement reduced physical activity levels, increased both screen exposure and sleep time, and reduced fruit and vegetable consumption. Therefore, most HRBs worsened among this sample of Spanish children and adolescents. Closure of schools, online education, and the lack of policies addressing the conciliation between labor and family life could have played an important role in HRBs worsening among pupils, which might be mitigated with adequate conciliation policies, parental guidance, and community support. |
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