The Relationship between Exercise Volume and Disease Severity among Patients Who Tested Positive for COVID-19

ABSTRACT

[...]the relationship between exercise volume during a pandemic and COVID-19 disease severity was examined to inform the nursing community and others who educate patients on a healthy lifestyle. Researchers have concluded exercise may play an important role in countering respiratory symptoms associated with COViD-19 (Mohamed & Alawna, 2020). [...]the current authors sought to determine if exercise volume was related to symptoms and hospitalization from COVID-19. Use of four exercise volume groups would provide 80% power to detect correlations in excess of 0.16 with outcome measures, and effect size differences of 0.5 or higher based on a sample of 400 respondents. Comorbidities and risk factors were obtained from the COVID-19 registry, including smoking, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma, diabetes, hypertension, coronary artery disease, heart failure, cancer (type), transplant, multiple sclerosis, connective tissue disease, inflammatory bowel disease, HIV, other immunosuppressive disease, other heart disease, other lung disease, pregnancy, and epilepsy.