The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in swimmers: a comparison of daily life activities in pre-restriction and during restriction

Objective: The study aims to compare swimmers’ daily sport life changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in the pre-restriction restriction periods. Material and methods: Two hundred fifty-one competitive swimmers participated in this study (117 females), aged 12-33 years, who had at least 3-year sport experience. Data were collected via a Google Forms survey. Statistically, before using a parametric test, the assumption of normality was verified using the Shapiro-Wilk test. A paired t-test was performed for one variable. Variables were presented as frequencies and percentages, according to feedbacks received. The Chi-square test was used to compare variables. Resultsː There were no significant differences related to the changes caused by COVID-19 between genders (p<0.05). Statistically significant increase in training frequency, decrease in swimming training sessions, increase in dry-land training sessions, and changes of daily training time periods occurred during restriction compared with the pre-restriction period. Conclusionsː Findings of this study reveal that the swimmers' athletic lives were negatively affected during the restriction period due to COVID-19..

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:56

Enthalten in:

Spor Hekimligi Dergisi - 56(2021), 4, Seite 166-171

Sprache:

Englisch ; Türkisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Erkan Demirkan [VerfasserIn]
Tuğrul Özkadı [VerfasserIn]
Sema Can [VerfasserIn]
Mehmet Kutlu [VerfasserIn]
Emre Demir [VerfasserIn]
İsmet Alagöz [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Covid-19
Daily life
Sports
Sports medicine
Swimmer

doi:

10.47447/tjsm.0534

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

DOAJ015876217