The ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on physical activity and screen time among Canadian youth.

IF 2.7 2区医学 Q2 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

Health Reports Pub Date : 2023-10-18 DOI:10.25318/82-003-x202301000001-eng

Rachel C Colley, Travis J Saunders

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Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused changes in health behaviours, including participation in physical activity and screen time. The purpose of this paper is to examine trends in physical activity and screen time among Canadian youth from January 2018 to February 2022.

Methods: The Canadian Community Health Survey asks Canadian youth (aged 12 to 17 years) to report the time they spend active by domain: recreation, transportation, school and household. Survey respondents are also asked to report their screen time on school days and non-school days. The present analysis compares the physical activity from four cross-sectional samples collected during 2018 (January to December; n=3,952), January to March 2020 (n=911), September to December 2020 (n=1,573), and January 2021 to February 2022 (n=3,501). Screen time is compared between 2018 and 2021/2022. Sub-annual descriptive analyses examine how physical activity and screen time varied within and between these years.

Results: Before the COVID-19 pandemic, half of Canadian youth met the physical activity recommendation (2018: 49.6%; January to March 2020: 53.7%). The percentage meeting the recommendation dropped in the first year of the pandemic (September to December 2020: 37.3%) and recovered slightly in 2021 (43.8%). From 2018 to 2021, total physical activity dropped by 8.3 minutes per day (58.1 minutes per week) among girls and by 2.1 minutes per day (14.7 minutes per week) among boys. The percentage of youth meeting the screen time recommendation on school days dropped from 40.7% in 2018 to 29.1% in 2021 and from 21.4% in 2018 to 13.2% in 2021 on non-school days.

Interpretation: The COVID-19 pandemic had a detrimental impact on the physical activity and screen time of youth, in particular among girls. This analysis provides an update on how the pandemic has continued to affect the physical activity and screen habits of youth in 2020, 2021, and early 2022.

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新冠肺炎疫情对加拿大青年身体活动和屏幕时间的持续影响。

背景：新冠肺炎大流行导致健康行为发生变化，包括参与体育活动和屏幕时间。本文的目的是调查2018年1月至2022年2月加拿大青年的体育活动和屏幕时间趋势。方法：加拿大社区健康调查要求加拿大青年（12至17岁）报告他们在娱乐、交通、学校和家庭等领域的活动时间。调查对象还被要求报告他们在上学日和非上学日的屏幕时间。本分析比较了2018年（1月至12月；n=3952）、2020年1月至3月（n=911）、2020月至12日（n=1573）和2021年1月到2022年2月（n=3501）期间收集的四个横断面样本的体力活动。将2018年和2021/2022年的屏幕时间进行比较。亚年度描述性分析考察了这些年内和这些年之间的身体活动和屏幕时间是如何变化的。结果：在新冠肺炎大流行之前，一半的加拿大青年符合体育活动建议（2018年：49.6%；2020年1月至3月：53.7%）。符合建议的百分比在大流行的第一年下降（2020年9月至12月：37.3%），2021年略有恢复（43.8%）。2018年至2021年，女孩每天的总体育活动时间减少了8.3分钟（每周58.1分钟），男孩每天减少了2.1分钟（每周14.7分钟）。在上学日符合屏幕时间建议的青少年比例从2018年的40.7%下降到2021年的29.1%，在非上学日从2018年和2021年的21.4%下降到13.2%。解释：新冠肺炎大流行对青年人，特别是女孩的身体活动和屏幕时间产生了不利影响。这项分析提供了疫情如何在2020年、2021年和2022年初继续影响年轻人的体育活动和屏幕习惯的最新情况。

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