Abstract
This study was conducted to compare individuals' physical activity status prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic. The sample group of the study consisted of 413 women and 457 men living in different cities of Turkey, over the age of 18, with body mass index averages of 22.86±3.69, and a total of 870 individuals. In the research, the 'International Physical Activity Questionnaire' was used to determine the physical activities of individuals. SPSS statistical package program was used to compare the survey results of individuals gender, before pandemic and during pandemic with their variables. According to the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test results, the data was not normally distributed and the Mann Whitney U and Wilcoxon tests, which are nonparametric tests, were used. In this study, the level of significance (p) was <0.05. According to the results obtained, a significant difference was found between individuals' total and sub-parameters of physical activity before and during the pandemic (p <0.05). While pre-pandemic physical activity levels were found to be significant in favor of male individuals according to gender (p<0.05), no significant difference was found according to gender during the pandemic (p>0.05). As a result, a significant decrease in the physical activity levels of individuals was detected during the pandemic compared to before the pandemic.