Lifestyle of basic education teachers before and during the covid-19 pandemic
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https://doi.org/10.21527/2176-7114.2024.48.13744Keywords:
Quarantine, coronavirus, home‑confinement, social distancing, health behaviorsAbstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to substantial changes in population behavior and health-related outcomes. The objective of the study was to analyze the temporal trends in a set of lifestyle risk behaviors self-reported by elementary school teachers from public schools in the city of Curitiba, Paraná, before and during the self-confinement imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. This is an observational study in which two samples of elementary school teachers answered a standardized self-report questionnaire with items on physical activity, screen time, sleep duration, fruit/vegetable intake, tobacco and alcohol use. One sample answered the questions in a non-pandemic period (n = 376) and the other sample answered the questions one year after the beginning of the pandemic (n = 294). Findings suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic has strongly driven changes in lifestyle risk behaviors, including physical inactivity, excessive screen time, insufficient sleep duration, inadequate fruit/vegetable intake, and alcohol abuse consumption. In the pandemic period the chance of greater exposure to physical inactivity (OR = 2.07 [1.40 – 3.01]) and insufficient sleep duration (OR = 2.19 [1.39 – 3.46]) more than doubled and, in the case of excessive screen time (OR = 2.99 [2.02 – 4.36]), tripled compared to the pre-pandemic period. In the pre-pandemic and pandemic period associations between lifestyle risk behaviors and sex and age were identified. In conclusion, intervention actions must be guided in a broad and comprehensive perspective of health education, which meet the conditions of isolation/social distancing of teachers and the population in general.
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