No Evidence of Systematic Change of Physical Activity Patterns Before and During the Covid-19 Pandemic and Related Mood States Among Iranian Adults Attending Team Sports Activities

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.641895

. 2021 Apr 14:12:641895.

doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.641895. eCollection 2021.

No Evidence of Systematic Change of Physical Activity Patterns Before and During the Covid-19 Pandemic and Related Mood States Among Iranian Adults Attending Team Sports Activities

Alireza Aghababa¹, Seyed Hojjat Zamani Sani², Hadi Rohani³, Maghsoud Nabilpour⁴, Georgian Badicu⁵, Zahra Fathirezaie⁶, Serge Brand^{7

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¹ Department of Sport Psychology, Sport Sciences Research Institute, Tehran, Iran.
² Department of Motor Behavior, Physical Education and Sport Sciences Faculty, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran.
³ Department of Exercise Physiology, Sport Sciences Research Institute, Tehran, Iran.
⁴ Department of Sports Physiology, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Mohaghegh Ardabili University, Ardabil, Iran.
⁵ Department of Physical Education and Special Motricity, Faculty of Physical Education and Mountain Sports, Transilvania University of Brasov, Brasov, Romania.
⁶ Motor Behavior Faculty, Physical Education and Sport Sciences Faculty, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran.
⁷ Division of Sport Science, Department of Sport, Exercise and Health, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
⁸ Adult Psychiatric Clinics (UPKE), Center for Affective, Stress and Sleep Disorders (ZASS), University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
⁹ Substance Use Prevention Research Center and Sleep Disorder Research Center, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran.
¹⁰ School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

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PMCID: PMC8079653
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.641895

No Evidence of Systematic Change of Physical Activity Patterns Before and During the Covid-19 Pandemic and Related Mood States Among Iranian Adults Attending Team Sports Activities

Alireza Aghababa et al. Front Psychol. 2021.

. 2021 Apr 14:12:641895.

doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.641895. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Alireza Aghababa¹, Seyed Hojjat Zamani Sani², Hadi Rohani³, Maghsoud Nabilpour⁴, Georgian Badicu⁵, Zahra Fathirezaie⁶, Serge Brand^{7

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9

10}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Sport Psychology, Sport Sciences Research Institute, Tehran, Iran.
² Department of Motor Behavior, Physical Education and Sport Sciences Faculty, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran.
³ Department of Exercise Physiology, Sport Sciences Research Institute, Tehran, Iran.
⁴ Department of Sports Physiology, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Mohaghegh Ardabili University, Ardabil, Iran.
⁵ Department of Physical Education and Special Motricity, Faculty of Physical Education and Mountain Sports, Transilvania University of Brasov, Brasov, Romania.
⁶ Motor Behavior Faculty, Physical Education and Sport Sciences Faculty, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran.
⁷ Division of Sport Science, Department of Sport, Exercise and Health, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
⁸ Adult Psychiatric Clinics (UPKE), Center for Affective, Stress and Sleep Disorders (ZASS), University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
⁹ Substance Use Prevention Research Center and Sleep Disorder Research Center, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran.
¹⁰ School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

PMID: 33935895
PMCID: PMC8079653
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.641895

Abstract

Objective: To cope with the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic health authorities released social restrictions. Such social restrictions impacted on the people's possibilities to move deliberately in a public space and to gather with other people. In the present study, we investigated the impact of COVID-19-related restrictions ("confinement") on physical activity (PA) patterns before and during the confinement among team sports participants. Such PA patterns were further related to current mood states, and possible sex differences were also explored. Methods: A total of 476 adults exercising team sport (football, futsal, volleyball, handball, and basketball; mean age: 24.66 years; 48.1% females) completed a series of self-rating questionnaires covering sociodemographic information, former and current PA patterns, and current mood states. Results: Compared with the period before the confinement, PA intensity decreased, but PA frequency increased during the confinement. Past, current, and changes in physical activity patterns were unrelated to participants' mood states. Sex differences in mood were spurious. Sex differences in physical activity patterns were modest, with male participants reporting a higher physical activity intensity during the confinement. Conclusions: The present pattern of results suggests that the COVID-19-related confinement did not impact in a uniform fashion on PA patterns of adults attending team sports. Furthermore, mood states were unrelated to current physical activity patterns. Given the complex psychosocial situation of COVID-19-related confinement, it appeared very unlikely that sole physical activity patterns could counterbalance possible impaired states of mood and behavior.

Keywords: COVID-19 pandemic; mood states; physical activity; sex differences; team sports.

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Illustration of physical activity (PA) factors and sexes interaction before and during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

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No Evidence of Systematic Change of Physical Activity Patterns Before and During the Covid-19 Pandemic and Related Mood States Among Iranian Adults Attending Team Sports Activities

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