ArticleAnnals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine2023
Changes in Population Health-Related Behaviors During a COVID-19 Surge: A Natural Experiment.
Article in Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 16 citations in OpenAlex.
- Changes in Sleep Duration and Sleep Timing in the General Population from before to during the First COVID-19 Lockdown: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Pooled it
- Incidence, timing, and prognosis of heart failure after treatment for large B-cell lymphoma in Sweden during 2007-2022.Blood advances · 2026Article
- Risk, determinants, and persistence of long-COVID in a population-based cohort study in Catalonia.BMC medicine · 2025Article
- Sex-specific chrono-nutritional patterns and association with body weight in a general population in Spain (GCAT study).The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2024Article
- Changes in Daily life due to the COVID-19 Pandemic and Mental Health Status in Korean Adolescents.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2024Article
- Decoding depression by exploring the exposome-genome edge amidst COVID-19 lockdown.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Alcohol's impact on fine motor skills: Insights from minimally invasive surgical simulation.Heliyon · 2024Article
- The potential impact of removing a ban on electronic nicotine delivery systems using the Mexico smoking and vaping model (SAVM).medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024Article
- Changes in Teleworking and Physical Activity Behaviors in the United States Before and After Emergence of COVID-19.Journal of occupational and environmental medicine · 2023Article
- Perceived impact of the COVID-19 pandemic among people with spinal cord injury: A descriptive study.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translation · 2023Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
16 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundThe study of impact of lockdowns on individual health-related behaviors has produced divergent results. PURPOSE: To identify patterns of change in multiple health-related behaviors analyzed as a whole, and their individual determinants.
methodsBetween March and August 2020, we collected data on smoking, alcohol, physical activity, weight, and sleep in a population-based cohort from Catalonia who had available pre-pandemic data. We performed multiple correspondence and cluster analyses to identify patterns of change in health-related behaviors and built multivariable multinomial logistic regressions to identify determinants of behavioral change.
resultsIn 10,032 participants (59% female, mean (SD) age 55 (8) years), 8,606 individuals (86%) modified their behavior during the lockdown. We identified five patterns of behavioral change that were heterogeneous and directed both towards worsening and improvement in diverse combinations. Patterns ranged from "global worsening" (2,063 participants, 21%) characterized by increases in smoking, alcohol consumption, and weight, and decreases in physical activity levels and sleep time, to "improvement" (2,548 participants, 25%) characterized by increases in physical activity levels, decreases in weight and alcohol consumption, and both increases and decreases in sleep time. Being female, of older age, teleworking, having a higher education level, assuming caregiving responsibilities, and being more exposed to pandemic news were associated with changing behavior (all p < .05), but did not discriminate between favorable or unfavorable changes.
conclusionsMost of the population experienced changes in health-related behavior during lockdowns. Determinants of behavior modification were not explicitly associated with the direction of changes but allowed the identification of older, teleworking, and highly educated women who assumed caregiving responsibilities at home as susceptible population groups more vulnerable to lockdowns.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.