Injury Characteristics among Young Adults during and Immediately after the COVID-19 Lockdown.

The lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic inherently changed people’s lifestyles. Forty-eight days of isolation led to worsening physical fitness in addition to the development of other unhealthy habits. The aim of this study was to describe sport-related injuries in the active general population.

A longitudinal study on depressive symptoms and physical activity during the Spanish lockdown.

: The aim was to evaluate the evolution of depressive symptoms and to explore the influence of physical activity (PA) practice during the home confinement due to the COVID-19 outbreak in Spain. : Information was collected from 595 confined participants who reported personal and contextual information, depressive symptoms and PA levels at four time points. : The changes in depressive symptoms were analyzed using a linear mixed model with cubic splines.

The impact of cooperative learning on peer relationships, intrinsic motivation and future intentions to do sport.

Background: Understanding intra-individual change is a key question when studying causality between variables. The first objective was to examine, using the technique of true intra-individual change (TIC, Δ) for the first time, the motivational sequence proposed by Vallerand (1997), ΔCo-operative learning → ΔRelatedness → ΔIntrinsic motivation → ΔIntention to do sport.

Method: The sample comprised 372 students divided into two groups, experimental and control.