COVID-19 SOCIAL ISOLATION IN BRAZIL: EFFECTS ON THE PHYSICAL ACTIVITY ROUTINE OF FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN

Sá, Cristina dos Santos Cardoso de; Pombo, André; Luz, Carlos; Rodrigues, Luis Paulo; Cordovil, Rita

doi:10.1590/1984-0462/2021/39/2020159

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ORIGINAL ARTICLE • Rev. paul. pediatr. 39 • 2021 • https://doi.org/10.1590/1984-0462/2021/39/2020159 copy

COVID-19 SOCIAL ISOLATION IN BRAZIL: EFFECTS ON THE PHYSICAL ACTIVITY ROUTINE OF FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN

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ABSTRACT

Objective:

To identify how Brazilian families with children aged under 13 years face the period of social isolation resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, especially regarding the time spent on physical activity (PA), intellectual activity, games, outdoor activities and screen.

Methods:

An anonymous online survey was launched on March 24, 2020 in Brazil to assess how families with children aged up to 12 years are adjusting their daily routines to this situation. In the survey, each family reported the daily time each child spent in sedentary activity (sum of intellectual activities, play time on screen, playing without PA) and PA (sum of playing with PA and PA).

Results:

The main findings based on data from 816 children indicate that most parents consider there was a reduction in the time that children spend practicing PA; increase in screen play time and family activities, differences between sex were found regarding screen play time (boys>girls) and in playing without PA (girls>boys), and there was an age effect for all categories analyzed, with a tendency to increase the total time of sedentary lifestyle and complementary reducing the time of PA over age.

Conclusions:

The household routines of families during the period of social isolation resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic confirm the general reduction tendency in PA time during childhood.

Keywords:
Quarantine; Screen time; Sedentary behavior; Motor activity; Child development

	Group	Sex	Mean±SD	Two-way ANOVA
Time of intellectual activity (hours)	0 to 2 years old	M	0.5±0.9	Age: F_3,805=63.279; p<0.001 Sex: F_1,805=0.023; p=0.881 Age*sex: F_3.805=0.306; p=0.821
	0 to 2 years old	F	0.6±1.6
	3 to 5 years old	M	1.2±1.5
	3 to 5 years old	F	1.0±1.1
	6 to 9 years old	M	2.4±2.0
	6 to 9 years old	F	2.5±2.1
	10 to 12 years old	M	3.0±2.6
	10 to 12 years old	F	2.8±2.5
Playful Screen Time (hours)	0 to 2 years old	M	2.4±1.9	Age: F_3,805=48.850; p<0.001 Sex: F_1,805=10.936; p=0.001 Age*sex: F_3,805=0.790; p=0.500
	0 to 2 years old	F	2.3±2.2
	3 to 5 years old	M	4.2±2.2
	3 to 5 years old	F	3.4±2.0
	6 to 9 years old	M	4.6±2.4
	6 to 9 years old	F	4.0±2.1
	10 to 12 years old	M	5.4±2.3
	10 to 12 years old	F	4.7±2.0
Playing time without physical activity (hours)	0 to 2 years old	M	1.7±1.6	Age: F_3,805=14.749; p<0.001 Sex: F_1,805=22.072; p<0.001 Age*sex: F_3,805=2.656; p=0.047
	0 to 2 years old	F	2.6±2.3
	3 to 5 years old	M	3.0±1.8
	3 to 5 years old	F	3.1±1.8
	6 to 9 years old	M	2.3±1.6
	6 to 9 years old	F	2.8±1.6
	10 to 12 years old	M	1.4±1.7
	10 to 12 years old	F	2.3±1.6
Playing time with physical activity (hours)	0 to 2 years old	M	1.4±1.5	Age: F_3,805=18.918; p<=0.001 Sex: F_1,805=0.543; p=0.461 Age*sex: F_3,805=0.339; p=0.797
	0 to 2 years old	F	1.2±2.1
	3 to 5 years old	M	1.3±1.1
	3 to 5 years old	F	1.3±1.1
	6 to 9 years old	M	0.7±0.9
	6 to 9 years old	F	0.7±0.8
	10 to 12 years old	M	0.6±0.9
	10 to 12 years old	F	0.6±0.8
Time of physical activity (hours)	0 to 2 years old	M	0.7±0.9	Age: F_3,805=2.206; p=0.086 Sex: F_1,805=0.032; p=0.858 Age*sex: F_3,805=0.444; p=0.722
	0 to 2 years old	F	0.6±1.4
	3 to 5 years old	M	0.6±1.0
	3 to 5 years old	F	0.7±1.0
	6 to 9 years old	M	0.5±0.8
	6 to 9 years old	F	0.4±0.6
	10 to 12 years old	M	0.5±0.7
	10 to 12 years old	F	0.5±0.8

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[1] *Corresponding author. E-mail: cristina.sa@unifesp.br (C.S.C. Sá).