Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a newly discovered infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). In March 2020, WHO declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. As a result, schools and colleges were forced to shut down all over the world. This makes all students population to study from home through online classes. The objective of the study was to find out the relationship between COVID19, fitness, and lifestyle changes in students. A sample of 300 students (aged between 18 and 25 years) from Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Karnataka participated in this online survey sent through a Google Form. The survey consisted of 15 questions regarding the student’s activity level, food habits, and health. 90% of the population did not have any medical limitations to stay active during this survey. Out of this, more than half (53%) of the study population has marked that the pandemic has influenced their fitness status. The sedentary behaviour among the population has increased. 49.7% of the population was physically less active, and 37.7% was not at all active. The possible reasons could be lack of time to do exercise, altered sleeping behaviour, increased laziness, and increased online time. 60.7% population have marked that they do not eat more during pandemic and their food habits were good. 47.7% wish to improve their overall health but not decrease weight. Only 16.7% of the population needs to reduce their weight. This is associated with better access to fresh, homemade food. This indicates that majority of studied student population has good eating habits, but they are not able to stay physically fit due to inability to stay physically active. This study concludes that physical activity limitation is the major factor found to have decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic’s online learning. Majority of students’ eating habits have improved due to lockdown, but their fitness status has remained low due to online learning
Background: According to the WHO, female obesity is double that of the male population, and obesity is associated with respiratory disorders due to changes in the biomechanics of the diaphragm. Pulmonary function test (PFT) is usually done in an upright posture, but obese people might not be able to sit up during PFT. Hence, this study investigates changes in position that alter the PFT values in healthy females with abdominal fat deposition. Method: This experimental study was done on 34 randomly selected female college students (18–25 years old) with a waist-hip ratio of ≥0.85 cm2 . In three distinct positions—supine, sitting, and side-lying—the forced vital capacity and forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) standard spirometric tests were compared. Result: Statistical analysis was done using SPSS software. Descriptive data were found by mean and standard deviation. An analysis of variance and the Bonferroni test were applied to find a significant difference in test score between three different body positions. There is a significant difference among the tested three positions; a p > 0.05 was found between supine versus sitting and supine versus side-lying, whereas the mean value between side-lying versus sitting showed a statistically significant difference of p < 0.05. Conclusion: Change in position has significant effects on spirometric parameters in healthy asymptomatic females with central obesity. But a statistically significant and clinically improved result was found in sitting versus side lying position. Hence, this study suggests that adopting a side-lying position for evaluating lung function will not make much difference in PFT values.
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