Changes in Physical Health-Related Indexes of Chinese College Students before and after COVID-19 Lockdown

Donglin Hu; Zhiyun Liu; He Zhang; Chen Jiang

doi:10.1155/2022/7802492

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Changes in Physical Health-Related Indexes of Chinese College Students before and after COVID-19 Lockdown

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Changes in Physical Health-Related Indexes of Chinese College Students before and after COVID-19 Lockdown

Donglin Hu, Zhiyun Liu, He Zhang and Chen Jiang

BioMed research international, Vol.2022, pp.1-6

16/08/2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/7802492

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COVID-19

COVID-19 lockdown

China

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The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has caused negative impacts on people’s lifestyles, as well as considerable indirect social impacts, which has even overshadowed the direct impact of virus infection itself. This study is aimed at examining the changes in physical health-related indexes of Chinese college students before and after the COVID-19 lockdown. The data of this study are from the National Physical Health Testing Program, covering 43 college students (male: 22) from a class of a Chinese university. Paired t-tests were performed on the physical health test data separately collected in November 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic and October 2020 after the COVID-19 lockdown was lifted. As shown by the test results, compared to the prelockdown data, college students had an increased body mass index (BMI) (0.43 (SD 0.94) P=0.004), decreased vital capacity (VC) (-128.98 (SD 310.13) ml P=0.009), and lowered performance in the 800/1000 m endurance (-6.21 (SD 8.81) points P<0.001) and standing long jump tests (-2.44 (SD 7.37) points P=0.036) after the lockdown, and the differences in these regards all were significant. In addition, for the students in the overweight/obese group, their pre- and postlockdown physical fitness test results were found to have no statistically significant difference (P>0.05), but the students in the control group showed a significantly increased BMI, as well as significantly decreased vital capacity and performance in the 800/1000 m endurance and standing long jump tests (P<0.05). The findings of this study are expected to help government departments and policymakers better understand the impacts of school closures and online learning on the physical health of adolescents, while providing a basis for the formulation of measures that are aimed at reversing adolescents’ physical health decline.

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Title: Changes in Physical Health-Related Indexes of Chinese College Students before and after COVID-19 Lockdown
Creators: Donglin Hu - Southern Cross University
Zhiyun Liu - Tianjin University of Sport
He Zhang - Nanjing Agricultural University
Chen Jiang - Nanjing Audit University
Contributors: Italo F. Angelillo (Editor)
Publication Details: BioMed research international, Vol.2022, pp.1-6
Publisher: Hindawi
Grant note: TJTY18-008 / Foundation of Tianjin City Social Science Planning Project, China
Identifiers: 991013054709302368
Copyright: Copyright © 2022 Donglin Hu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Academic Unit: Faculty of Health
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article

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