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

Completed

• Conditions: COVID; Isolation, Social
• Interventions: Other: Online Survey

• Registration Number: NCT04412278
• Lead Sponsor: Okan University

Brief Summary

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.

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 Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2020-05-30
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-05-30
• Status Verified: 2020-06
• Study Start: 2020-06-01
• Study First Posted: 2020-06-02
• Primary Completion: 2020-06-08
• Study Completion: 2020-06-08
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-06-08
• Last Update Posted: 2020-06-11

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 392

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 & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Turkish society	Online Survey	Individuals speak Turkish and lives in Turkey, ages between 15 - 65, literate and with internet access

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Exercise Benefits and Barriers Scale	three months after Covid 19 recognised as pandemic	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.
Sociodemographic information	three months after Covid 19 recognised as pandemic	Participants will be asked to give information about: age, gender, educational status, height, weight, occupation, working status, whether they have a chronic disease.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
International Physical Activity Questionairre	three months after Covid 19 recognised as pandemic	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.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Istanbul Okan University; 🇹🇷 Istanbul, Turkey