The lockdown and social distancing caused by Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) may have changed Physical Activity Level (PAL), eating behavior, and health habits due to long-term confinement worldwide.<\/p>\n
This study aimed to evaluate the PAL, eating behavior, Quality of Life (QoL), General Health (GH), and mood states during COVID-19 confinement in a large sample of Iraqi adults.<\/p>\n
3738 healthy adults (age 18\u201370 years) residing in Halabjeh, Iraq answered the online questionnaires including the short form of international physical activity, GH, three-factor eating (TFEQ-R18), and a short form of the profile of mood states (POMS-SF) questionnaires. Data analysis was done by Chi-square, and Spearman\u2019s correlation using SPSS statistical software at a significant level of (P\u2009<\u20090.05).<\/p>\n
The results showed unfavorable PAL, eating behavior, QoL, GH, and mood states in the total population. Low PAL was observed in 69.96% of the men and 75.99% of the women; only 3.60% of the men and 0.77% of the women had a high PAL. There was a significantly positive relationship between low PAL and the incidence of COVID-19 both in men and women (P\u2009=\u20090.801; r\u2009=\u20090.001; and P\u2009=\u20090.682; r\u2009=\u20090.011), respectively; While a significant negative relationship was observed between the moderate and high PAL and the incidence of COVID-19 in men (P\u2009=\u20090.011; r=-0.682 and P\u2009=\u20090.027, r=-0.589), and women (P\u2009=\u20090.001; r=-0.796 and P\u2009=\u20090.018, r=-0.623). No significant relationships were observed between PAL and eating behavior (men: P\u2009=\u20090.086; r\u2009=\u20090.256 and women: P\u2009=\u20090.365, r=-0.121); While, the results show significant positive relationships between PAL with QoL in men (P\u2009=\u20090.012; r\u2009=\u20090.623) and women (P\u2009=\u2009=\u20090.001; r\u2009=\u20090.837). based on the results, significant negative relationships between PAL with GH and mood state scores were observed in both men (P\u2009=\u20090.001; r=-0.837 and P\u2009=\u20090.001, r=-0.786) and women (P\u2009=\u20090.010; r=-0.652 and P\u2009=\u20090.001, r=-0.745), respectively.<\/p>\n
The Iraqi adult population showed low PAL, GH, QoL, and mood state during COVID-19 which might be due to the confinement. Also, the significant relationships between low PAL with GH, and mood state recommends physical activity as a valuable health optimizing factor during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5693,"template":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uoh.edu.iq\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/researcharchive\/5692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uoh.edu.iq\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/researcharchive"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uoh.edu.iq\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/researcharchive"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uoh.edu.iq\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uoh.edu.iq\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uoh.edu.iq\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}