No Evidence of Systematic Change of Physical Activity Patterns Before and During the Covid-19 Pandemic and Related Mood States Among Iranian Adults Attending Team Sports Activities

Objective: To cope with the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic health authorities released social restrictions. Such restrictions impacted on people's possibilities to move deliberately in a public space and gather other people. In present study, we investigated impact of COVID-19-related (“confinement”) physical activity (PA) patterns before during confinement among team sports participants. PA were further related current mood states, possible sex differences also explored. Methods: A total 476 adults exercising sport (football, futsal, volleyball, handball, basketball; mean age: 24.66 years; 48.1% females) completed series self-rating questionnaires covering sociodemographic information, former patterns, states. Results: Compared period confinement, intensity decreased, but frequency increased confinement. Past, current, changes unrelated participants' Sex spurious. modest, male participants reporting higher Conclusions: The pattern results suggests that did not uniform fashion attending sports. Furthermore, states patterns. Given complex psychosocial situation it appeared very unlikely sole could counterbalance impaired behavior.