Longitudinal associations between physical activity and other health behaviours during the COVID-19 pandemic: a fixed effects analysis
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Abstract
Government enforced restrictions on movement during the COVID-19 pandemic are likely to have had profound impacts on the daily behaviours of many individuals, including physical activity (PA). Given the associations between PA and other health behaviours, changes in PA during the pandemic may have been detrimental for other health behaviours. This study aimed to evaluate whether changes in PA during and after the first national lockdown in the United Kingdom (UK) were associated with concurrent changes in alcohol consumption, sleep, nutrition quality, diet quantity and sedentary time. Data were derived from the UCL COVID-19 Social Study, in which 52,784 adults were followed weekly across 22 weeks of the pandemic from 23rd March to 23rd August 2020. Fixed effects regression models showed that greater PA was positively associated with improved sleep and nutrition quality. However, increases in PA also showed modest associations with increased alcohol consumption and sedentary time. Encouraging people to engage in PA may lead to wider changes in other health behaviours in times of adversity. These associations could be a result of increases in available leisure time for many people during COVID-19 restrictions and are of ongoing importance given the emerging long-term changes to lifestyle and working patterns.
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SciScore for 10.1101/2022.04.07.22273555: (What is this?)
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Table 1: Rigor
NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.Table 2: Resources
No key resources detected.
Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your data.
Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:Further limitations include the use of a self-selected sample. Despite this, the large sample shows wide heterogeneity and good stratification across all major socio-demographic groups. Further efforts to improve sample representativeness included the use of weighting to align with national population statistics, making the sample comparable to the sample of another nationally representative study [80]. However, despite all efforts to make our …
SciScore for 10.1101/2022.04.07.22273555: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.Table 2: Resources
No key resources detected.
Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your data.
Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:Further limitations include the use of a self-selected sample. Despite this, the large sample shows wide heterogeneity and good stratification across all major socio-demographic groups. Further efforts to improve sample representativeness included the use of weighting to align with national population statistics, making the sample comparable to the sample of another nationally representative study [80]. However, despite all efforts to make our sample inclusive and representative of the adult population, we cannot rule out the possibility of potential biases due to omitting other demographic factors that could be associated with survey participation in the weighting process. Additionally, our survey did not utilise a validated tool of daily PA, instead focussing on ‘dedicated’ or ‘leisure-time’ PA. Although this approach is widely used, it is less reflective of total daily movement. Lastly, we cannot rule out the possibility of reporting biases including social desirability in participant’s responses given the reliance on self-report tools, although use of a self-completed online survey may in-part have buffered this risk.
Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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