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Perceived change in physical activity levels and mental health during COVID-19: Findings among adult twin pairs.

Glen E DuncanAlly R AveryEdmund SetoSiny Tsang
Published in: PloS one (2020)
Strategies to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic may be impacting physical activity and mental health, with those experiencing a decrease in physical activity also having higher levels of stress and anxiety. These relationships are confounded by genetic and shared environmental factors, in the case of stress, and age and sex, in the case of anxiety.
Keyphrases
  • physical activity
  • mental health
  • sleep quality
  • body mass index
  • mental illness
  • depressive symptoms
  • stress induced
  • genome wide