The impact of COVID-19 on physical activity in older age groups, authored by Jakub Sotolar

1. The Impact
of Covid-19
on Physical
Activity
Jakub Sotolar
2nd year student of
physiotherapy
The University of
Cumbria

2. The Impact of Covid-19 on
Physical Activity
Table 1.
Selected types of answers from questionnaire on
amount of activity during a week and related
coding.
data from questionnaire quantitative coding
None 0
Up to one hours 1
One to three hours 3
Over three hours 3.1
Table 2.
age group participants percentage of total
30-39 33 14.22%
40-49 51 21.98%
50-59 87 37.50%
60-69 41 17.67%
70-79 17 7.33%
80-89 3 1.29%
Total 232
Table 3.
Gender participants percentage
Male 46 19.8%
Female 182 78.4%
transgender 3 1.3%
missing data 1 0.4%
232 100.0%

3. The Impact of Covid-19 on
Physical Activity
-13.76%
-7.01%
-5.31%
-9.64%
-36.19%
-1.19%
-40
-35
-30
-25
-20
-15
-10
-5
0
30-39 40-49 50-59 60-69 70-79 80-89
% change before/ after Covid
Fig 1. Percental impact of COVID-19 on amount of exercise in a week.
-11.97%
-8.06%
-42.33%
-45.00
-40.00
-35.00
-30.00
-25.00
-20.00
-15.00
-10.00
-5.00
0.00
Male Female transgender
Percentual change of PA
Fig 2. Percentual change of doing PA before and during COVID pandemic for all genders.

4. The Impact of Covid-19 on
Physical Activity
8.68 8.4
7.93
9.44
7.64
8.47
7.63 7.85
7.53
8.61
5.61
8.37
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
30-39 40-49 50-59 60-69 70-79 80-89
average time of PA
before after
Fig 3. Average time of physical activity done every week before and after COVID-19.
9.09%
17.65%
20.69%
2.44%
23.53%
0.00%
27.27%
29.41%
22.99%
17.07%
41.18%
0.00%
0.00%
5.00%
10.00%
15.00%
20.00%
25.00%
30.00%
35.00%
40.00%
45.00%
30-39 40-49 50-59 60-69 70-79 80-89
PA ≤ than 5 hours a week
before after
Fig 4. Percentage of participants who exercise less or equal to minimal amount of physical
exercise every week before and after COVID-19.