Impacts of covid -19 on physical condition in young adults aged 18 to 23 years

Abstract

Determining the impact of covid-19 as a new scourge, which is facing mankind and in particular, what deals with its direct effects on man, constitutes a pending task to be solved; its impact on the behavior of the physical and psychological condition is marked by all the affectations and pathological consequences that it leaves behind. This aspect led us to carrying out studies on the indicators related to the development of physical capacities, the nutritional status, and health in general with the purpose of identifying the negative effects caused by covid-19 on the behavior of physical condition in young adults aged 18 to 23 of the western part of the country since there was the possibility of suffering from this pathology; therefore, the implementation of confinement measures to avoid the spread of this virus, the prevailing limitations for the performing of physical activity, and the coupled with programs of an institutional educational and sports system established with innumerable deficiencies were developed to tackle down this virus. In order to search for what was proposed, a qualitative-descriptive study was carried out by using methods of the theoretical and empirical levels of scientific research with an emphasis on measurement, which allowed us to find a marked decrease in the levels of physical condition as a result of limited physical preparation because of the decrease of people with a normal weight level of nutrition and the tendency to grow towards overweight and obesity of type 1 and 2, according to the classification established by the WHO (1992), in addition to the appearance of cardiovascular diseases associated with high blood pressure.