EFFECTS ON HEALTH AND LIFE CHANGES ON LOCKDOWNS

Year 2025, Volume: 10 Issue: 2, 101 - 108, 29.06.2025

Mehtap Sönmez , Nihal Aloğlu

Abstract

The precautions taken aimed to provide protection against COVID-19, but by ignoring human nature and psychosociological structures, they also caused the emergence of negative outcomes. This study aimed to explain how people spend time, the effect on health, and life changes during the COVID-19 quarantine. This study is an analytical cross-sectional study. A total of 1708 participants were included, and data were collected by using Google Forms. Data were presented in numbers and frequency; Chi-square analysis was used in the comparisons of categorical data. Backward logistic regression analysis was performed to evaluate the status of experienced COVID-19 and life changes. Weight gain, use of social media and the internet, sedentary life, and unhappiness occurred due to quarantine reported in this study. It was found that more than half of the participants were unhappy and gained weight during lockdown. It has been determined that people who had COVID-19 sleep more and use social media more gain more weight and are more unhappy during quarantine. There was no planning in some countries for a healthy lifestyle during the lockdown was perhaps the greatest deficiency of pandemic management. Not only do these negative effects cause individuals to feel more anxiety, stress, and depression, but the continuation of lockdown habits will have seriously negative effects on health. There should be recommendations and guides for people to lead healthy lives in disasters.

Keywords

Lockdown , Covid-19 , pandemic , health , life changes

Ethical Statement

Approval for the study was granted by the Social and Humanities Ethics Committee of a state University [no: 10669/58].

Supporting Institution

Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam Üniversitesi

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