Physical activity and screen time of children and adolescents before and during the COVID-19 lockdown in Germany: a natural experiment

Abstract The impact of COVID-19 on social life has been drastic and global. However, the different numbers of cases and different actions in different countries have been leading to various interesting yet unexplored effects on human behavior. In the present study, we compare the physical activity a...

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Autores principales:	Steffen C. E. Schmidt, Bastian Anedda, Alexander Burchartz, Ana Eichsteller, Simon Kolb, Carina Nigg, Claudia Niessner, Doris Oriwol, Annette Worth, Alexander Woll
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Publicado:	Nature Portfolio 2020
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:eae5a359159341359e1c0f645acef2922021-12-02T16:18:04ZPhysical activity and screen time of children and adolescents before and during the COVID-19 lockdown in Germany: a natural experiment10.1038/s41598-020-78438-42045-2322https://doaj.org/article/eae5a359159341359e1c0f645acef2922020-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-78438-4https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract The impact of COVID-19 on social life has been drastic and global. However, the different numbers of cases and different actions in different countries have been leading to various interesting yet unexplored effects on human behavior. In the present study, we compare the physical activity and recreational screen time of a representative sample of 1711 4- to 17-year-olds before and during the strictest time of the first COVID-19 lockdown in Germany. We found that sports activity declined whereas recreational screen time increased. However, a substantial increase in habitual physical activities leads to an overall increase in physical activity among children and adolescents in Germany. The effects differ in size but not in their direction between age groups and are stable for boys and girls. We conclude from this natural experiment that physical activity among children and adolescents is highly context-driven and mutual and does not act as a functional opposite to recreational screen time.Steffen C. E. SchmidtBastian AneddaAlexander BurchartzAna EichstellerSimon KolbCarina NiggClaudia NiessnerDoris OriwolAnnette WorthAlexander WollNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2020)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Steffen C. E. Schmidt Bastian Anedda Alexander Burchartz Ana Eichsteller Simon Kolb Carina Nigg Claudia Niessner Doris Oriwol Annette Worth Alexander Woll Physical activity and screen time of children and adolescents before and during the COVID-19 lockdown in Germany: a natural experiment
description	Abstract The impact of COVID-19 on social life has been drastic and global. However, the different numbers of cases and different actions in different countries have been leading to various interesting yet unexplored effects on human behavior. In the present study, we compare the physical activity and recreational screen time of a representative sample of 1711 4- to 17-year-olds before and during the strictest time of the first COVID-19 lockdown in Germany. We found that sports activity declined whereas recreational screen time increased. However, a substantial increase in habitual physical activities leads to an overall increase in physical activity among children and adolescents in Germany. The effects differ in size but not in their direction between age groups and are stable for boys and girls. We conclude from this natural experiment that physical activity among children and adolescents is highly context-driven and mutual and does not act as a functional opposite to recreational screen time.
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author	Steffen C. E. Schmidt Bastian Anedda Alexander Burchartz Ana Eichsteller Simon Kolb Carina Nigg Claudia Niessner Doris Oriwol Annette Worth Alexander Woll
author_facet	Steffen C. E. Schmidt Bastian Anedda Alexander Burchartz Ana Eichsteller Simon Kolb Carina Nigg Claudia Niessner Doris Oriwol Annette Worth Alexander Woll
author_sort	Steffen C. E. Schmidt
title	Physical activity and screen time of children and adolescents before and during the COVID-19 lockdown in Germany: a natural experiment
title_short	Physical activity and screen time of children and adolescents before and during the COVID-19 lockdown in Germany: a natural experiment
title_full	Physical activity and screen time of children and adolescents before and during the COVID-19 lockdown in Germany: a natural experiment
title_fullStr	Physical activity and screen time of children and adolescents before and during the COVID-19 lockdown in Germany: a natural experiment
title_full_unstemmed	Physical activity and screen time of children and adolescents before and during the COVID-19 lockdown in Germany: a natural experiment
title_sort	physical activity and screen time of children and adolescents before and during the covid-19 lockdown in germany: a natural experiment
publisher	Nature Portfolio
publishDate	2020
url	https://doaj.org/article/eae5a359159341359e1c0f645acef292
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Physical activity and screen time of children and adolescents before and during the COVID-19 lockdown in Germany: a natural experiment

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