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ArticleHeliyon2020

Physical inactivity and sedentary behaviors in the Bangladeshi population during the COVID-19 pandemic: An online cross-sectional survey.

Md Estiar Rahman, Md Saiful Islam, Md Sajan Bishwas, Mst Sabrina Moonajilin, David Gozal

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Article in Heliyon, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Md Estiar RahmanDepartment of Public Health and Informatics, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka 1342, Bangladesh.
Md Saiful IslamDepartment of Public Health and Informatics, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka 1342, Bangladesh.
Md Sajan BishwasDepartment of Public Health and Informatics, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka 1342, Bangladesh.
Mst Sabrina MoonajilinDepartment of Public Health and Informatics, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka 1342, Bangladesh.
David GozalDepartment of Child Health and the Child Health Research Institute, The University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, MO 65201, USA.
Jahangirnagar University · BDBangladesh Livestock Research Institute · BDUniversity of Missouri Health System · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study aimed to determine the prevalence of physical inactivity and sedentary behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic among Bangladeshi people. An online survey was conducted among 2,028 people over a period of 10 days on June, 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic at a time that the number of newly diagnosed cases was increasing, lockdown was still in place. Survey questions included socio-demographics and an adapted version of the IPAQ-SF to assess physical activity and sedentary behaviors. The prevalence rates of physical inactivity (<600 MET-minutes/week) and high sedentary behaviors (≥8 h/day) among Bangladeshi people were 37.9% and 20.9%, respectively. Regression analyses revealed that young age, being a student, from a middle-class family, or upper-class family, living with nuclear family, urban living, and suffering from no chronic diseases were all associated with physical inactivity and high sedentary behaviors. Moreover, physical inactivity and high sedentary behavior were strongly interrelated. However, many of the univariate risk factors exhibited interdependency. During the COVID-19 pandemic coinciding with lockdown measures a sizeable proportion of Bangladeshi people were physically inactive and reported sedentary behaviors ≥8 h/day. Public campaigns and media-based interventions encouraging home-based physical activities should be promoted to attenuate the impact of lockdown measures during a pandemic.

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CategoriesEpidemiologyHealth educationLeisureLockdownPhysical activityPhysical exercisePublic healthQuality of lifeQuarantine

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PMID33163666
PMCPMC7598079
OpenAlexW3096372866

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