Mobility restrictions affect mental health - more exercise in lockdown.
A representative survey conducted by
Germans are taking more exercise
More people in
For example, about 22 percent of those surveyed said they were cycling more or doing more sports at home. A good quarter (26 percent) now walk or cycle on trips that they would have used a car or public transport for before the corona crisis. More than one in three (37 percent) stated that they were doing more walking. In the DKV Report 2018, fewer than half (43 percent) of those surveyed achieved the minimum activity recommendations of the
Mental health has suffered
More than a third (39 percent) said that the restrictions put in place in response to the Covid 19 pandemic would have a 'somewhat negative or very negative' impact on their mental health if they continued for a longer period of time.
The older the respondents were, the more relaxed they were about the restrictions imposed by the corona crisis. More than half of those aged between 50 and 75 stated that the corona restrictions had no influence on their mental health. In contrast, young respondents (16-29 years) most frequently stated that the corona restrictions tended to have a positive effect on their mental health in the long term (26 percent).
'Exercise is absolutely essential for health. There was concern that the lockdown measures would further exacerbate the lack of exercise in some parts of the population', said Dr.
The full results of the DKV study can be downloaded here free of charge as a PDF file in German.
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