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

Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Perceived Exercise Benefits and Barriers: Cross Sectional Study on Turkish Society and Interpretation With Physical Activity Level

Status
Completed
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Observational
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT04412278
Enrollment
392
Registered
2020-06-02
Start date
2020-06-01
Completion date
2020-06-08
Last updated
2020-06-11

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Conditions

COVID, Isolation, Social

Keywords

Covid 19, Physical activity level, Exercise benefits and barriers, Turkish Society, Social Isolation

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.

Interventions

OTHEROnline Survey

Volunteer individuals enrolled the study after approval an online informed consent form. Sociodemographic data of the participants recorded as an online survey. Then, patient reported outcomes were used to assess physical activity level (International Physical Actvity Questionairre) and Exercise Benefits and Barriers (Exercise Benefits and Barriers Scale).

Sponsors

Okan University
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Observational model
ECOLOGIC_OR_COMMUNITY
Time perspective
CROSS_SECTIONAL

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
15 Years to 65 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes

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

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Exercise Benefits and Barriers Scalethree months after Covid 19 recognised as pandemicThe 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 informationthree months after Covid 19 recognised as pandemicParticipants will be asked to give information about: age, gender, educational status, height, weight, occupation, working status, whether they have a chronic disease.

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
International Physical Activity Questionairrethree months after Covid 19 recognised as pandemicThe 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.

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026