Inatividade física no lazer durante a pandemia da COVID-19 em universitários de Minas Gerais

Abstract

The objectives of the study were to estimate the prevalence of leisure-time physical inactivity and to analyze the association between past physical activity practices in childhood and adolescence, in the classes of Physical Education and outside the school context, under physical inactivity during leisure-time in COVID-19 pandemic. A cross-sectional study was carried out with college and postgraduate students (n = 1.679) of Federal University of Uberlândia, who answered an adapted online survey “Indicadores de Saúde e Qualidade de Vida em Acadêmicos (ISAQ-A)". The Prevalence Ratio was used, complemented by the 95% confidence interval (95% CI) to estimate association in crude and adjusted analysis. The significance value was 5%. The results revealed that non-involvement in physical activities outside the school context, during childhood and adolescence, is associated with higher prevalence of physical inactivity during leisure (RP: 1,245; IC95%: 1,087 – 1,426). The dependent variable was the reported absence of physical activities practice during the covid-19 pandemic. The independent variables were: practice of physical activities during childhood and teenage years during the physical education classes (even if not on a regular basis) and/also out of it. The control variables were health condition, personal income and resources available to enable the practice of physical activities.The findings of this research indicate that the PAs performed in leisure-time during childhood and adolescence can influence the maintenance of the practice even in adverse situations, such as the social distance caused by the pandemic of COVID-19.