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Changes in Device-Measured Physical Activity Patterns in U.K. Adults Related to the First COVID-19 Lockdown

Andrew P. Kingsnorth, Mhairi Patience, Elena Moltchanova, Dale W. Esliger, Nicola J. Paine, and Matthew Hobbs

As of the beginning of February 2021, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 had infected more than 104.5 million individuals and had caused more than 2.3 million deaths worldwide ( Johns Hopkins University & Medicine, 2020 ). Named coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the outbreak began

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COVID-19 Highlights the Potential for a More Dynamic Approach to Physical Activity Surveillance

Alex V. Rowlands, Pedro F. Saint-Maurice, and Philippa M. Dall

The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, has urged the scientific community and industry to obtain population snapshots of lifestyle behaviors to characterize changes in behaviors during relatively short windows of time (e.g., weekly) so that the impact of lockdowns and

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Should We Use Activity Tracker Data From Smartphones and Wearables to Understand Population Physical Activity Patterns?

Jacqueline L. Mair, Lawrence D. Hayes, Amy K. Campbell, and Nicholas Sculthorpe

the coronavirus pandemic when objective accelerometery was neither possible nor feasible due to the speed and variability with which restrictions were imposed across the world. As a result, the need for remote and scalable means to both measure and support PA has become more prominent since the

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Use of Accelerometers to Track Changes in Stepping Behavior With the Introduction of the 2020 COVID Pandemic Restrictions: A Case Study

Tiereny McGuire, Kirstie Devin, Victoria Patricks, Benjamin Griffiths, Craig Speirs, and Malcolm Granat

coinventor of the activPAL3 ™ physical activity monitor and a director of PAL Technologies Ltd., and Speirs is an employee at PAL Technologies Ltd. References Adams-Prassl , A. , Boneva , T. , Golin , M. , & Rauh , C. ( 2020 ). Inequality in the impact of the Coronavirus shock: Evidence from real

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Validity of the Modified SIT-Q 7d for Estimating Sedentary Break Frequency and Duration in Home-Based Office Workers During the COVID-19 Global Pandemic: A Secondary Analysis

Kirsten Dillon-Rossiter, Madison Hiemstra, Nina Bartmann, Wuyou Sui, Marc Mitchell, Scott Rollo, Paul A. Gardiner, and Harry Prapavessis

. ( 2020 ). The coronavirus is forcing techies to work from home. Some may never go back to the office . https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/the-coronavirus-is-forcing-techies-to-work-from-home-some . Accessed April 9, 2021. Katzmarzyk , P.T. , Powell , K.E. , Jakicic , J

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The 7th International Conference on Ambulatory Monitoring of Physical Activity and Movement