Psychosocial Health and Physical Activity in People With Major Depression in the Context of COVID-19

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

Edith Holsboer-Trachsler¹  Undine E. Lang¹  Nina Schweinfurth¹  Anne Eckert¹  Lukas Zahner²  Robyn Cody²  Oliver Faude²  Markus Gerber²  Sebastian Ludyga²  Jan-Niklas Kreppke²  Lars Donath³  Sarah Mans⁴  Christian Imboden⁴  Anja Rogausch⁵  Anja Oswald⁵  Johannes Beck⁵  Martin Hatzinger⁶  Thorsten Mikoteit⁶ 

[1] Adult Psychiatric Clinics (UPKE), University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland;Department for Sport, Exercise and Health, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland;Department of Intervention Research in Exercise Training, German Sport University Cologne, Cologne, Germany;Private Clinic Wyss, Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland;Psychiatric Clinic Sonnenhalde, Riehen, Switzerland;Psychiatric Services Solothurn, Solothurn, Switzerland;

关键词: psychosocial health;    COVID-19;    depression;    physical activity;    attitudes;    lockdown;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fspor.2021.685117

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Introduction: Major depression is a psychiatric disease associated with physical inactivity, which in turn affects mental and physical health. A randomized controlled trial is being implemented to facilitate physical activity in people with major depression. In March 2020, Swiss state authorities temporarily legislated a lockdown to contain the Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19), which influenced health, behavior and research. The aim of this study was to find out whether data gathered before and during/after the lockdown among in-patients with major depression differ with regard to psychosocial health, physical activity and related attitudes and to establish whether baseline data have been affected by the lockdown.Methods: This is a cross-sectional analysis within a randomized controlled trial. Physically inactive, adult in-patients diagnosed with major depression were recruited from four Swiss psychiatric clinics between January 2019 and December 2020. Psychosocial health was measured with questionnaires pertaining to stress, sleep and health-related quality of life. Physical activity was measured with the Simple Physical Activity Questionnaire. Explicit attitudes were measured with seven questionnaires pertaining to physical activity-related motivation and volition. Implicit attitudes toward physical activity were captured with a single target implicit association test.Results: The sample consisted of 165 participants (n = 119 before lockdown, n = 46 during/after lockdown). No statistically significant differences were found between in-patients with major depression assessed before and during/after the COVID-19 lockdown with regard to psychosocial health (stress, p = 0.51; sleep, p = 0.70; physical component of health-related quality of life, p = 0.55; mental component of health-related quality of life, p = 0.64), self-reported physical activity (p = 0.16) and explicit as well as implicit attitudes toward physical activity (p = 0.94). Hence, the COVID-19-induced lockdown seems not to have led to group differences.Conclusion: Baseline data gathered in in-patients suffering from major depression who are physically inactive upon admission to in-patient treatment in Switzerland seem to be unaffected by the COVID-19-induced lockdown. To assess changes in said population regarding psychosocial health and physical activity patterns over time, longitudinal data are needed.

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