Sedentarismo y actividad física en adolescentes de San Patricio del Chañar : una revisión antes y luego de la pandemia

Abstract

This research will be carried out in the city of San Patricio del Chañar, province of Neuquén. Its objective is to determine if there is a relationship between sedentary lifestyle and physical activity by conducting a review before and after the pandemic in local adolescents. The quarantine and confinement caused by the Covid-19 pandemic were showing multiple consequences in people's lives. Among others, health, economic, labor and social problems arose. Although staying at home to avoid the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus was one of the necessary measures, a negative behavior also grew with it: a sedentary lifestyle. “Although there were people who exercised at home via Zoom, in general that faded away little by little and did not have as much adherence as occurs with outdoor exercise or sports. The entire period of mandatory isolation led to a true pandemic of sedentary lifestyle and the consequence of this is a lack of adaptation of the body to physical activities when they are resumed. Furthermore, this pandemic of sedentary lifestyle is associated with the development of risk factors for heart problems, such as overweight and obesity, increased blood pressure or uncontrolled diabetes in people with this disease," says Dr. Roberto Peidro, Director of the Sports Sciences Institute of the Favaloro University, full member of the Argentine Society of Cardiology and former president of the Argentine Cardiological Foundation. The main idea is to know and determine the relationship between physical activity and sedentary lifestyle by carrying out a review prior to the appearance of the pandemic, and after it, having as a starting point the performance of physical activities, if positive it will be taken into account. It counts the frequency, intensity and type of activity. A descriptive quantitative research will be carried out, taking as a sample high school students from the town of San Patricio del Chañar. As a methodology and data collection techniques, surveys with open and closed questions will be carried out.