چکیده:
Introduction: The purpose of present study was to examine effect of home physical exercise on obesity in social isolation period of corona virus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Material & Methods: In this study, participants were a random sample of 150 actively online friends from the entire social medias friends of totaling 200 friends of the researcher. Data were collected in Ethiopia, between April 1 and July 1, 2020. A descriptive statistics was employed. Moreover, a paired sample t-test was used at level of significance set at 0.05 alpha to compare participant obesity before and during COVID-19 pandemic. Results: The results indicated that, before pandemic 78.8 % of participants and during pandemic period 87.9% of participants had normal body weight. But there was variation of BMI. For instance before pandemic there were underweight subjects but during pandemic there was no a single individual in underweight category. The reason was majority participants gained 1-5 kg and some individuals gained 6-10kg of body weight during the COVID-19 pandemic. As the result of paired sample t-test analysis, BMI significantly increased after COVID-19 (P=0.003). Conclusion: Based on the results, 72.8 % participants gained weight during pandemic because people minimized their time to exercise and eating too much without burring calories. Therefore, during COVID-19 pandemic period, people should perform physical exercises regularly at home to avoid excessive body weight.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Effect of home physical exercise on obesity in social isolation period of Corona virus (COVID-19) pandemic, Ethiopia Tilahun Bereded Shiferaw* Received: 3 January 2020 / Accepted: 28 January 2020 (1) Assistant professor in sport sciences, Department of Sport Science, Kotebe Metropolitan University, Ethiopia.
com Abstract Introduction: The purpose of present study was to examine effect of home physical exercise on obesity in social isolation period of corona virus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.
Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine effect of home physical exercise on obesity in social isolation period of COVID-19 pandemic.
This study used a quantitative research design, and collected data through a descriptive total 17-item, 9 items were adapted (11) and the remaining items self prepared to assess the participants’ exercise routine in social isolation period of COVID-19 pandemic.
Demographic characteristic of participants, (mean ±SD)* {مراجعه شود به فایل جدول الحاقی} The next Table 2 indicates about participants’ health, physical exercise experience and obesity before social isolation period of COVID-19 pandemic.
Physical exercise experience and obesity before COVID-19 pandemic {مراجعه شود به فایل جدول الحاقی} According to Table 3, 100 % of participants have been stay home in social isolation period of COVID-19 pandemic.
Besides, respondents physical exercise experience during social isolation period of COVID-19 pandemic also asked in this Table 3.
Therefore, during COVID 19 pandemic period, people should perform physical exercises regularly at home to avoid excessive body weight.
Therefore, during COVID 19 pandemic period, people should perform physical exercises regularly at home to avoid excessive body weight.