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Rachel Bezerra Gurgel A, Augusto Coelho Guimarães J, Chakur Brum P, Carlos Pedroso de Lima A, Giavina-Bianchi P, Henrique Mesquita Peres C, Cristina Peres Braido Francisco M, Garcia Neves dos Santos L, de Cassia Cezar Santos R, Eliana Beseggio Santos R, Corá A, José da Silva Duarte A, dos Santos Lazari C, Jose Pereira A, Cerdeira Sabino E, Corchs F, Cotrim Segurado A, Figueiredo Costa S, Levin AS. Impacts of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic on leisure and transportation physical activity among healthcare workers. Prev Med Rep 2024; 38:102587. [PMID: 38288262 PMCID: PMC10823129 DOI: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2024.102587] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2023] [Revised: 12/29/2023] [Accepted: 01/02/2024] [Indexed: 01/31/2024] Open
Abstract
Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic may lead to reduced physical activity (PA) in health care workers (HCWs). Objective To evaluate leisure and transport-related PA in HCW of a COVID-19-dedicated hospital during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods This is a cross-sectional study with a sample of 1,527 HCWs. Socioeconomic aspects, occupational characteristics, and engagement in leisure and transport-related PA were investigated through an online survey administered in August of 2020. Results More than 80 % HCWs performed < 150 min/week of leisure-related PA, and 85 % performed ≤ 30 min/day transport-related PA. Being male was associated with more PA (OR: 1.93; 95 % CI:1.40-2.66) and transport-related PA; working in nursing, physical therapy, and cleaning/housekeeping services was associated with low PA (OR: 0.70; 95 % CI:0.51-0.95). Physicians and administrative staff were less active in transport-related PA. Conclusions HCWs working in a COVID-19 hospital had low levels of PA in the domains of leisure and transportation.
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Affiliation(s)
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- School of Physical Education and Sport, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Clinical Immunology and Allergy Division, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
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- Divisão de Laboratório Central, Hospital das Clinicas, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
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- Divisão de Laboratório Central, Hospital das Clinicas, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
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- Divisão de Laboratório Central, Hospital das Clinicas, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
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- Divisão de Laboratório Central, Hospital das Clinicas, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
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- Covid-19 Emergency Committee, Hospital das Clinicas, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- LIM-46, Instituto de Medicina Tropical, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Institute and Department of Psychiatry, Hospital das Clinicas, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
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- Divisão de Moléstias Infecciosas, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- LIM-49, Instituto de Medicina Tropical, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- LIM-49, Instituto de Medicina Tropical, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Divisão de Moléstias Infecciosas, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- LIM-49, Instituto de Medicina Tropical, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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Soto GW, Webber BJ, Fletcher K, Chen TJ, Garber MD, Smith A, Wilt G, Conn M, Whitfield GP. Association between passively collected walking and bicycling data and purposefully collected active commuting survey data—United States, 2019. Health Place 2023; 81:103002. [PMID: 36966668 DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.103002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2022] [Revised: 02/28/2023] [Accepted: 03/06/2023] [Indexed: 03/30/2023]
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Commercially-available location-based services (LBS) data derived primarily from mobile devices may provide an alternative to surveys for monitoring physically-active transportation. Using Spearman correlation, we compared county-level metrics of walking and bicycling from StreetLight with metrics of physically-active commuting among U.S. workers from the American Community Survey. Our strongest pair of metrics ranked counties (n = 298) similarly for walking (rho = 0.53 [95% CI: 0.44-0.61]) and bicycling (rho = 0.61 [0.53-0.67]). Correlations were higher for denser and more urban counties. LBS data may offer public health and transportation professionals timely information on walking and bicycling behavior at finer geographic scales than some existing surveys.
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- Graycie W Soto
- Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Hwy, Atlanta, GA, 30341, USA; Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) Research Participation Program, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA.
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- Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Hwy, Atlanta, GA, 30341, USA; Epidemic Intelligence Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd, Atlanta, GA, 30329, USA
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- Geospatial Research, Analysis, and Services Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Hwy, Atlanta, GA, 30341, USA
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- Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Hwy, Atlanta, GA, 30341, USA; McKing Consulting Corporation, 2900 Chamblee Tucker Road, Building 10, Suite 100, Atlanta, GA, 30341, USA
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- Geospatial Research, Analysis, and Services Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Hwy, Atlanta, GA, 30341, USA; Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Environmental Health Building, 1681 Campus Delivery, Fort Collins, CO, 80523, USA
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- Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Hwy, Atlanta, GA, 30341, USA
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- Geospatial Research, Analysis, and Services Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Hwy, Atlanta, GA, 30341, USA
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- Geospatial Research, Analysis, and Services Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Hwy, Atlanta, GA, 30341, USA
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- Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Hwy, Atlanta, GA, 30341, USA
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