African Educational Research Journal - Vol. 9(1) - Effect of remote exercise education on psychological status and body awareness

Q: What was the purpose of the study?

To examine how distance exercise education affects psychological status and body awareness during the pandemic period.

Q: Who participated and how was the exercise program delivered?

Twenty-one sedentary women aged 20–30 participated, receiving a digital exercise program delivered for 6 weeks, 3 days a week, 1 hour daily.

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Curfew restrictions during the COVID-19 period produced negative physical and psychological effects worldwide, motivating this study on the impact of distance exercise education on psychological status and body awareness. Twenty-one sedentary women aged 20–30 participated for 6 weeks, 3 days per week, with 1 hour daily. The digital program included eight moves with warm-up and cooling. Body Awareness Questionnaire (BAQ) and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) were collected pre- and post-intervention and analyzed with SPSS 20.0.

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Abstract

Introduction

Body awareness

Physical activity and COVID-19 context

Psychological resilience and pandemic restrictions

Materials and Methods

African Educational Research Journal Vol. 9(1), pp. 141-145, February 2021 DOI: 10. 30918/AERJ.91.21.017 ISSN: 2354-2160 Full Length Research Paper Effect of remote exercise education on psychological status and body awareness Yeliz Doğru Health, Culture and Sports Department, İzmir Kâtip Çelebi University, İzmir, Turkey. Accepted 11 February, 2021 | Abstract
The curfew restrictions applied during the pandemic period have had negative physical and psychological effects on people all over the world. Therefore, the aim of the study is examining the effect of distance exercise education on psychological state and body awareness. Twenty-one sedentary women aged 20-30 years participated in the study. Exercises were carried out for 6 weeks, 3 days a week, 1 hour daily. The exercise program sent to the participants digitally consists of a total of 8 moves: plank, crunch, leg raise, flutter kicks, mountain climbers, arms-high partial sit up, heel touches, half push up. 10 minutes of warm-up at the beginning of each exercise and 5 minutes of active cooling with 5 minutes of stretching at the end. All participants had the Body Awareness Questionarre (BAQ) and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) filled digitally 6 weeks before and 6 weeks later. SPSS 20.00 program was used to analyze the data. The shapiro wilk test was used to determine whether the data showed normal distribution. Wilcoxon signed ranks test was used as the data did not show normal distribution in the analyzes. Significance level was accepted as p < 0.05. A statistically significant difference was found in all data as a result of the pre-test and post-test comparison of body weight, BDI and BAQ values (p < 0.05) . As a result, it can be said that the exercise program applied to sedentary individuals has a positive effect on psychological state and body awareness.
Keywords: Physical activity, pandemic, body weight, covid-19. | | --- | | E-mail: [yeliz.dogru@hotmail.com](yeliz.dogru@hotmail.com). | INTRODUCTİON Body awareness is defined as a general concept for body management, body experience and use of the body. In other words, it is a concept that focuses on the awareness of normal or abnormal processes occurring in the body and can change with mental functions and mental processes. One of the principles of the concept of body awareness is the individual's use and adoption of his body as an unlimited resource (Mehling et al. , 2011) . An individual with a high body awareness is expected to perceive all kinds of changes that occur in his body, and to change the negative ones individually or with help, again by using body awareness. As body awareness develops in the individual, improvement is expected in breath control, mind control, emotional control, increase in coordination, development in muscle and joint movements, reaction predictions due to changes in the body, postural control and balance elements (Miller et al. , 1981; Shields and Angela, 1991) . In a study, it was concluded that the deterioration of the body awareness state negatively affects the quality of life, psychological state and physical condition (Erden et al. , 2013) . Physical activity is the activities that involve the expenditure of energy by using our muscles and joints in our daily life, increase the heart and respiratory rate, and result in fatigue that can be done at different intensities (ACSM, 2004) . As physical activity markers, the biological, physical and social environment play an important role. These determinants are also expressed as factors that facilitate participation in physical activities. Although, it has been stated that the most important factor preventing physical activity is the lack of time, it has been shown that many variables including psychological, physiological and behavioral variables affect physical activity (Kirtland et al. , 2003) . The coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, which emerged for the first time in the world in Wuhan, China, spre

FAQs

What was the purpose of the study?

To examine how distance exercise education affects psychological status and body awareness during the pandemic period.

Who participated and how was the exercise program delivered?

Twenty-one sedentary women aged 20–30 participated, receiving a digital exercise program delivered for 6 weeks, 3 days a week, 1 hour daily.

Which measures were used to assess outcomes and what were the main results?

Body Awareness Questionnaire (BAQ) and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) were filled digitally before and after 6 weeks. Significant differences were found in body weight, BDI, and BAQ after comparing pre-test and post-test values (p < 0.05).

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