Changes in lifestyle and emotions during the covid-19 lockdown
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In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic caused many countries around the world to adopt measures based on home containment. The aim was to stop the spread, as well as the hospital crisis and deaths resulting from SARS-CoV-2 infection. People had to readjust their living habits to adapt to the new situation. The main objective of this research was to assess the population perception of lifestyle changes experienced during their home confinement around four parameters: (a) their diet, (b) frequency and intensity of physical exercise, (c) emotional state and (d) use of digital health digital media (eHealth). On March 31 and April 1, 2020, the link to a survey designed specifically for this purpose on Google Forms was sent via WhatsApp. A sample of 320 subjects was recruited, aged between 15 and 78 years (= 32.97; s =11.51), residents of different American and European countries, mainly from the Dominican Republic (73.8%) and Spain (17.2%). The results evidenced, with respect to diet, that 27.2% felt that their diet had worsened (37.8% that it was the same, while 35.0% that it had even improved); with respect to exercise, 52.5% stated that it had decreased in frequency/intensity (23.1% that it was the same, while 24.4% that it had increased); at the emotional level, 34.4% stated that it had worsened (51.6% that it was the same, while 14.0% that it was more positive). A statistically significant association was observed between changesin the use of eHealth toolsin eating (c2[4, n = 320] =11,75, p =.019) and exercise c2 [4, n= 320] = 85,35, p =.000). No statistically significant association was observed between emotional changes and the use of eHealth tools.
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