16/03/2021
An international team of researchers, including University of Wolverhampton’s Professor Tracey Devonport, has found that people’s physical activity levels, wellbeing, as well as sleeping and eating habits, have changed around the world during to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Participants from the UK reported the lowest levels of physical health and highest increase in weight, in the international survey.
Over 1,000 participants were surveyed in total from the UK, South Korea, Philippines, Latin America, Spain, North America and Italy. All of these countries, or country groups, experienced lockdown measures in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Professor of Applied Sport and Exercise Science Tracey Devonport said: “Our survey asked participants to rate their perceived physical and mental health ‘over the last week’.