The blockade of Covid-19 reduces mental health and sleeps globally: Study

October 23, New York (SocialNews.XYZ) New research adds to the growing evidence that the blockade of COVID-19 has dramatically changed our personal habits, reducing mental health, sleep and exercise.

Researchers have also found that the effects of lockdown are expanding among obese people.

“The stay-at-home order has had one major health benefit,” said Lian Redman, a research author at the Pennington Center for Biomedical Research in the United States. Overall, a healthy diet due to less frequent eating out. But I ate more. “

“I have less exercise. I slept later and became sleep deprived. My level of anxiety doubled,” Redman added.

A global study published in the journal Obesity evaluated inadvertent changes in health behavior under the widespread restrictions of pandemics.

“Overall, obese people improved their diet the most, but they also had the highest incidence of sharp declines in mental health and weight gain,” Redman said.

One-third of obese people gained weight during the blockade compared to 20.5% of normal or overweight people.

The online research was conducted in April. Over 12,000 people worldwide have confirmed the survey and 7,754 have completed detailed online surveys.

The majority of respondents came from the United States, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom, with more than 50 other countries responding.

This study has shown that chronic diseases such as obesity affect our health beyond the body.

The research team wants doctors and scientists to change the way they manage obese patients in two ways. Increase the number of mental health screenings during and after the pandemic and maintain connectivity with patients / study participants through telemedicine and telemedicine. To prevent the irreversible health effects of a pandemic.

Source: IANS

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