COVID-19 Pandemisi Döneminde Sokağa Çıkma Sınırlaması Olan ve Olmayan İllerde Yaşayan Spor Bilimleri Öğrencilerinin Fiziksel Aktivite Düzeylerinin Değerlendirilmesi.

The epidemic of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which started in China and spread worldwide at a very high rate, has been declared as Pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). Because of high contagiousness level of Covid-19 infection, people all around the world have been requested voluntary quarantine practices from their governments and education and training have been interrupted. In order to reduce the rate of infection, central governments applied curfews in highly populated cities during the later periods of the pandemic. This study aims to evaluate the physical activity levels of the participants who study sports sciences and live in cities with and without curfew.131 participants without curfew and 100 participants with curfew were included in the study. The long form of “International Physical Activity Questionnaire” (IPAQ) was used to determine the physical activity levels. IPAQ data of the participants with and without curfew were obtained concurrently. In the statistical analysis of the obtained data, descriptive statistics and Mann-Whitney U tests were applied by using IBM SPSS software. The differences in the levels of work-related, transportation, housework and leisure time physical activity of sports sciences students with and without curfew were found respectively as %11,68, %42,25, %25,14, %0,91. The highest difference between the two groups was observed at the transportation physical activity level as %42.25. The comparison between participants with and without curfew reveals significant differences in the activity levels of transport (p: 0,015; d: 0,463), housework (p: 0,006; d: 455), total amount of sitting time (p: 0,000; d: 0,586), walking (p: 0,002; d: 0,625) and total physical activity levels (p: 0,041; d: 0,395). A negative significant difference was observed in the physical activity levels of the participants with curfew compared to the participants without curfew according to the IPAQ assessment of the sports sciences studying participants during the pandemic caused by the COVID-19 infection. It is important to note that the significant difference in physical activity results from the increased amount of time spent at home and that decreased physical activity can have negative effects on blood glucose level and body composition which may lead to an increased risk of depression and anxiety disorder, and a decrease in quality of life and immune system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]