Impact of Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) lockdown on physical activity and energy expenditure among physiotherapy professionals and students using web-based open E-survey sent through WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram messengers | Zendy

Adarsh Kumar Srivastav | Zendy; Neha Sharma | Zendy; Asir John Samuel | Zendy

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Impact of Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) lockdown on physical activity and energy expenditure among physiotherapy professionals and students using web-based open E-survey sent through WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram messengers

Author(s) -

Adarsh Kumar Srivastav,

Neha Sharma,

Asir John Samuel

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

clinical epidemiology and global health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.361

H-Index - 13

eISSN - 2452-0918

pISSN - 2213-3984

DOI - 10.1016/j.cegh.2020.07.003

Subject(s) - covid-19 , medicine , population , physical activity , social distance , pandemic , physical therapy , disease , psychology , environmental health , infectious disease (medical specialty)

Coronavirus disease - 19 (COVID-19) spread throughout the world and become pandemic. To stop and control the rapid infection of COVID-19 lockdown is the best option. Sudden lockdown implies change in entire lifestyle of the population. Social isolation affects individual's lives by greater reduction in their physical activity, which might increase the chance of infection by reducing immunity. To what extent, the physical activity is reduced during this lockdown period among physiotherapy professionals, and students who propagate physical activity is not known. Hence, we aimed to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on physical activity level and energy expenditure among physiotherapy professionals and students.

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