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Female university students spend significantly more total time on sedentary behavior than male students during pandemic restrictions, with females averaging 14.19 hours/day on weekdays and 15.22 hours/day on weekends compared to males' 12.90 and 14.10 hours respectively.
Women in lockdown environments tend to accumulate more sedentary time than men. If you are female, be extra vigilant about scheduling movement, as you may be more susceptible to the sedentary pull of remote work/study environments.
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The total sedentary time of female students per week was higher than that of male students... female students spend more time on other types of SB than male students.
Why this rating
Statistically significant differences found between genders in the same cohort study.
Source
COVID‐19 lockdown: Physical activity, sedentary behaviour and sleep in Italian medicine students
Francesco Luciano et al. · European Journal of Sport Science · 2020
DOI 10.1080/17461391.2020.1842910
cohort · n=1487Cited 216×
Read the paper DOI resolved against Crossref · corpus check 2026-06-10
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