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Physical activity and physical education classes for students during the COVID-19 pandemic

In March 2020, regular contact classes in Physical Education at the University of Zagreb were interrupted and transferred to a virtual environment. It was one in a series of restrictive measures adopted to combat the Covid-19 pandemic caused by Coronavirus-2, which has greatly changed not only the usual way of life but also physical activity which is known to have numerous positive effects on individual health and society as a whole. Distance learning was conceived in such a way that students have partial freedom to create activities they need to perform using the information and tasks provided through a variety of online and digital tools. The aim of this study was to determine the existence of differences in physical activity before and during the pandemic and differences in physical activity with according to gender. The aim was also to determine students’ attitudes towards the new form of (online) teaching. The research was conducted through an anonymous online questionnaire on 189 students of one of the faculties of the University of Zagreb, with an average age of 19.98 ± 0.84 years. Significantly lower levels of physical activity were found in female students before the pandemic and there were differences in physical activity by gender before the pandemic, but not during. The level of physical activity during the pandemic increased compared to the level of physical activity before the pandemic, especially among female students. Most of the respondents have a positive attitude towards online teaching. This research has shown how teaching conceived in this way and the online and digital tools used can increase the level of physical activity and that in the future they should be incorporated into regular teaching.

Covid-19 pandemic ; physical activity ; students ; Physical Education classes

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