The impact of “home office” work on physical activity and sedentary behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review
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In 2020, as part of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments around the world enacted a wide variety of regulations and laws to contain the incidence of infection. One of these measures was the relocation of work to the home office. The objective of this review was to analyze the influence of the home office in correlation with regulations on sedentary and activity behavior. A search was conducted on various electronic databases from November 2019 to January 2022, using the search terms physical activity (PA), COVID-19, and working from home. The primary outcomes were changes in PA and sedentary behavior (SB). Secondary outcomes included pain, mood, and parenting stress. The risk of bias was assessed using the (NHLBI) Quality Assessment Tool. For the review, 21 articles met the inclusion criteria (total n = 1268). There was a significant increase in SB (+16%) and a decrease in PA (-17%), Light PA (-26%), and moderate to vigorous PA (-20%). There was also an increase in pain and parenting stress and a decrease in well-being. Due to our significant results, programs that promote movement should be created. Future studies should explore how an increase of PA and a reduction of SB in the home office could be achieved.
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Daily life was severely affected by COVID-19 regulations, and these circumstances seemed to be associated with an increase in sedentary behavior and a decrease of physical activity.
“Apart from that, daily life was severely affected by a variety of regulations leading, e.g., to a temporary closure of sports and leisure facilities and an increased percentage of people working from home. These circumstances seemed to be associated with an increase in sedentary behavior and a decrease of PA (52).”
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- Authors
- Wilms, P., Schröder, J., Reer, R., & Scheit, L.
- Affiliations
- Bundeswehrkrankenhaus (DE)
- Universität Hamburg (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Scheit, Lorenz
- Venue
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2022-09-28
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 19
- Pages
- 12344
- ISSN
- 1660-4601 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC9566552
- OpenAlex
- W4297522402
- Cited by
- 79
- References
- 39
- Citations by year
- 2026: 12 · 2025: 24 · 2024: 25 · 2023: 15 · 2022: 3
- FWCI
- 2.30
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- University of Hamburg
- Bundeswehrkrankenhaus Hamburg
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Physical Activity and Health
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Keywords
- working from home, physical activity, sedentary behavior, COVID-19 pandemic, light physical activity, moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, pain, parental stress, well-being
- MeSH terms
- COVID-19, Humans, Pain, Exercise, Sedentary Behavior, Pandemics
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