Original Research Article
Year: 2020 | Month: October | Volume: 10 | Issue: 10 | Pages: 130-136
Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on Physical Activity and Psychological Status in Individuals of Various Age Groups Using Google Forms
Snehal Joshi
Professor, D.E Society’s Brijlal Jindal College of Physiotherapy, Pune
ABSTRACT
Introduction: Covid 19 pandemic has been a sudden jolt to mankind. Lockdown following it has caused major changes in everyday life. It has affected physical activity, psychological makeup and has brought everyone to a ‘new normal’ lifestyle.
Hence this study was attempted to find out the impact of lock down on physical activity and psychological status during lock down.
Aim: To assess the impact of Covid-19 lockdown period on physical activity and psychological status in individuals with various age groups.
Materials and methods: Data collection was carried out using Google forms. Descriptive statistics was used to analyse the data.
Results: During lockdown, working hours were reduced for 66.66% individuals. Physical activity was increased for around 33.33% individuals whereas was increased in 43.57% individuals and remained same for rest of the individuals. Considering psychological status there was an increase of more than 10-20% in number of individuals who had increase in frequency of emotions who had developed increased level of feeling guilty, sad or irritable.
Conclusion: Lockdown had a major impact on psychological status of individuals whereas less severe impact on physical activity of individuals.
Key words: lock down, psychology, physical activity.