Association between sedentary behavior and depression among Japanese medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional online survey

Sedentary behavior, particularly prevalent during the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19), has been shown to lead to depression. In medical students, this could negatively affect the provision of healthcare. Thus, this study aimed to investigate the association between sedentary behavior and depress...

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Veröffentlicht in:BMC psychiatry 2022-05, Vol.22 (1), p.348-348, Article 348
Hauptverfasser: Tashiro, Tsubasa, Maeda, Noriaki, Tsutsumi, Shogo, Komiya, Makoto, Arima, Satoshi, Mizuta, Rami, Fukui, Kazuki, Nishikawa, Yuichi, Urabe, Yukio
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Zusammenfassung:Sedentary behavior, particularly prevalent during the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19), has been shown to lead to depression. In medical students, this could negatively affect the provision of healthcare. Thus, this study aimed to investigate the association between sedentary behavior and depression in Japanese medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic. An online cross-sectional survey was conducted from July 30 to August 30, 2021, using anonymous questionnaire system to assess respondents' sociodemographic characteristics, physical activity, sedentary behavior among 1000 Japanese university students. Depression was assessed using the Patient Health Questionnaire-2 (PHQ-2). The data of 484 respondents (48.4%) were included in a stepwise analysis, where we set the difference between medical and non-medical students as Model 1 and that between medical students with and without depression as Model 2. For group comparisons of both models, the chi-square test was used for sociodemographic characteristics, and the Mann-Whitney U-test was used for physical activity and sedentary behavior. In Model 2, factors associated with depression among medical students were analyzed by logistic regression analysis. In Model 1, medical students were less physically active (p 
ISSN:1471-244X
1471-244X
DOI:10.1186/s12888-022-03997-x