The Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic on the Lifestyle Behaviors of Individuals

Abstract

The study was planned and administered as a descriptive study to determine how COVID-19 pandemic affected the lifestyle behaviors of individuals. The study was administered from 30 June to 30 September by including 615 adult individuals who had been exposed to the COVID-19 pandemic. Of the healthy lifestyle behaviors scale II, the total mean score was found to be 126.37 ± 18.58. The health responsibility ( p = .032) and nutrition ( p = .004) subscale mean scores of women were found to be significantly higher than men, while the spiritual development subscale mean scores of men ( p = .047) were found to be significantly higher than that of women. It was found in this study that individuals did not regularly maintain healthy lifestyle behaviors in general during the pandemic period according to the subscales of health responsibility, physical activity, nutrition, spiritual development, interpersonal relationships, and stress management.

Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors and Quality of Life of Women in the Pandemic

“…Participants had an average median HLBS-II score, which has been reported by earlier studies (Devran Enginoğlu et al, 2021;Uysal & Argin, 2021). Uysal and Argin (2021) reported higher "health responsibility," "spiritual development," and "nutrition" scores in women during the pandemic (Uysal & Argin, 2021). Our participants had the highest score on "spiritual development" and the lowest on "physical activity."…”

“…HLBS-II scores are affected by socioeconomic disparities (Koçoğlu & Akın, 2009). Uysal and Argin (2021) argue that people with a bachelor's or a higher degree and those with a positive income are more likely to have healthy lifestyles (Uysal & Argin, 2021). On the other hand, women and unemployed people have low HLBS-II scores (Zhang et al, 2021).…”

A Scoping Review of the Changes in Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour and its Health Outcomes among Adults in Asia during the COVID-19 Outbreak

“…A total of 35 (29.5%) studies have examined PA among these groups. Of these, 18 studies reported total PA level have decreased among patients with or without chronic disease(s) (40,43,65,91,123,131,134), diabetes patients (39,86,99,135), COVID-19 patients (21,124,123), heart failure patients (17), multiple sclerosis patients (64), orthopedic patients (118), and adults with pain (55,136). When stratifying across the PA intensity, one study among postmenopausal women had lower levels of PA (68), three other studies reported low MVPA among adults with or without the chronic disease (66) and COVID-19 patients (62,75), and one study reported a decrease in LMVPA among adults with or without the chronic disease (127).…”

Health behaviors of adults living in Turkey during the covid-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study

“…Similarly, in the relevant literature, there are research studies showing that HPLP-II scores were in general at a low level during the Covid-19 pandemic. 6,12 In the research study conducted by van der Werf et al 15 with Dutch adults, it was put forward that the number of adults adopting a healthy lifestyle was higher than that of adults adopting an unhealthy lifestyle during the Covid-19 pandemic. On the other hand, numerous research studies found that the process of the Covid-19 pandemic led to falls in levels of physical activity and healthy nutrition.…”

“…7 In this respect, finding out individuals' health behaviors during the process of the Covid-19 pandemic is quite important to the identification of the effect of restrictions on individual and societal consequences. 8,9 In the relevant literature, there were research studies that analyzed individuals' health behaviors during the process of the Covid-19 pandemic, [2][3][4]6,[10][11][12][13] however, it was discerned that a limited number of research studies addressed this topic in Turkey.…”