ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021
Physical Behaviours in Brazilian Office Workers Working from Home during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Compared to before the Pandemic: A Compositional Data Analysis.
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- The Impact of "Home Office" Work on Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
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- Hybrid office work in women and men: do directly measured physical behaviors differ between days working from home and days working at the office?Annals of work exposures and health · 2023Article
- The Effect of an Electronic Passive Prompt Intervention on Prolonged Occupational Sitting and Light-Intensity Physical Activity in Desk-Based Adults Working from Home during COVID-19 in Ireland.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Changes in lifestyle-related behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan: a questionnaire survey for examinees who underwent an annual health check-up.The Journal of international medical research · 2023Article
- Work from home and the association with sedentary behaviors, leisure-time and domestic physical activity in the ELSA-Brasil study.BMC public health · 2023Article
- The relationship between objectively measured sitting time, posture, and low back pain in sedentary employees during COVID-19.Sport sciences for health · 2023Article
- Sedentary behaviour, physical activity, and sleep among office workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: a comparison of Brazil and Sweden.BMC public health · 2022Article
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- Working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic and its longitudinal association with physical activity and sedentary behavior.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2022Article
- The Impact of Online-Schooling during COVID-19 on Device-Measured 24-Hour Movement Behaviours among High School Students: A Compositional Data Analysis.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- The mediating role of physical activity and sedentary behavior in the association between working from home and musculoskeletal pain during the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Movement behaviours and anxiety symptoms in Chinese college students: A compositional data analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Work from home has increased greatly during the COVID-19 pandemic, and concerns have been raised that this would change physical behaviours. In the present study, 11 Brazilian office workers (five women, six men; mean [SD] age 39.3 [9.6] years) wore two triaxial accelerometers fixed on the upper back and right thigh continuously for five days, including a weekend, before COVID-19 (September 2019), and again while working at home during COVID-19 (July 2020). We determined time used in five behaviours: sedentary, standing, light physical activity (LPA), moderate-to-vigorous activity (MVPA), and time-in-bed. Data on these behaviours were processed using Compositional Data Analysis, and behaviours observed pre-COVID19 and during-COVID19 were compared using repeated-measures MANOVA. On workdays during-COVID19, participants spent 667 min sedentary, 176 standing, 74 LPA, 51 MVPA and 472 time-in-bed; corresponding numbers pre-COVID were 689, 180, 81, 72 and 418 min. Tests confirmed that less time was spent in bed pre-COVID19 (log-ratio -0.12 [95% CI -0.19; -0.08]) and more time in MVPA (log-ratio 0.35, [95% CI 0.08; 0.70]). Behaviours during the weekend changed only marginally. While small, this study is the first to report objectively measured physical behaviours during workdays as well as weekends in the same subjects before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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