Vilniaus kolegijos sveikatos priežiūros fakulteto studentų fizinis aktyvumas Covid-19 pandemijos metu

Abstract

The worldwide spread of the COVID-19 virus, which began in 2019, has had a very strong impact on people’s physical and emotional lives. During pandemic, Vilnius college faculty of health care studies had to be held remotely, so students instead of going to the faculty were to spend more time sitting in front of their computers during lectures. From this comes the problem of the thesis: changes in physical activity of Vilnius college faculty of health care students during Covid-19 pandemic, differences of physical activity of students of different studies. Aim of the study - to analyze Vilnius college faculty of health care 2nd-4th course students` physical activity during Covid-19 pandemic. Results of the study. Physical activity during quarantine decreased of almost two thirds of respondents (59%, n=114), it became higher of more than one tenth of respondents (14%, n=26), almost a third of respondents (27%, n=52) did not notice any changes in their physical activity. Physical activity decreased of half of students (52%, n=52) of general practice nursing studies and more than two thirds of students (67%, n=62) of the rest studies. Physical activity increased of less than one fifth (16%, n=16) of general practice nursing students, of the rest studies – of more than a tenth (11%, n=10) of students. Physical activity remained the same of more than a third (32%, n=32) of general practice nursing students and more than fifth (22%, n=20) of the rest Vilnius college faculty of health care studies‘ students.