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Perception of the level of physical activity of university professors during the isolation of COVID-19 / Percepção do nível de atividade física dos professores universitários durante o isolamento da COVID-19

2020; Brazilian Journal of Development; Volume: 3; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.34119/bjhrv3n5-315

2595-6825

Waleska Maria Almeida Barros, Amaury Cantilino, Mariluce Rodrigues Marques Silva, Ana Patrícia da Silva Souza, Daniella Jhenifer da Silva Oliveira, Elaine Cristina Silva de Barros, Ana Beatriz Januário da Silva, Simone Carla Peres Leite, Islaine Stefany da Silva, Thalyta Souza Pereira, Ellen Nascimento da Silva, Viviane de Oliveira Nogueira Souza,

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COVID-19 is characterized by a severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which started in China, in Wuhan, spreading throughout the world in an advanced way and has become a global health emergency, affecting 216 countries. The most recent number of confirmed cases of COVID- 19 is> 23.3 million worldwide, including> 806.4 confirmed deaths, as well as having forced> 4 billion people to be confined to their homes. In Brazil, more than 3.5 million people have been infected, with a total of more than 114,250 confirmed deaths today. On January 30, 2020, WHO notified COVID-19 as the sixth international public health emergency. The uncertainty of not knowing when the pandemic will end can affect people's physical health and can lead to other associated symptoms. The objective of the study was to investigate the consequences that social isolation can cause in aspects of physical activity in teachers of all undergraduate courses at the Centro Universitário Escritor Osman da Costa Lins - UNIFACOL, in Vitória de Santo Antão-PE. A cross-sectional study was carried out. Data collection took place through online questionnaires containing sociodemographic information and levels of physical activity. There were 115 participants, of which 57.4% were male and 42.6% female. Regarding the level of physical activity, there was a statistically significant difference between the sexes in moderate-intensity and walking. And during the pandemic, there were more active women and more sedentary men.