During the average week before the pandemic what was your average mood like and why?
We are interested in finding out about the kinds of physical activities that people do as part of their everyday lives and their mental health statis. The following questions will ask you about the time you have spent being physically active in the average week through three-time periods; pre-lockdown, lockdown (March – June 2020) and now.
It will also investigate the feelings and emotions you were feeling in these time periods.
Please answer each question as honestly as possible
Section One – Pre-pandemic
This section focuses on how you felt and the physical activity you did during the average week before March 2020.
Think back to all the moderate and vigorous physical activity you completed during this period. Moderate and vigorous physical activities refer to any activities that take moderate to hard physical effort and increase your breathing and heart rate much more than usual. Think only about the times you did these activities for 10 or more minutes.
During the average week before March 2020 on how many days did you do moderate to vigorous activities.
_____ days per week.
How much time did you spend doing those activities on one of those days?
_____ hours per day
_____minutes per day
How many hours on average per week?
_____average per week
Think also about the time you spent walking. This includes at work, university and at home, walking to travel from place to place, and any other walking that you might do solely for recreation, sport, exercise, or leisure.
On how many days did you walk for at least 10 minutes at a time?
_____ days per week
How much time did you usually spend walking on one of those days?
_____ hours per day
_____ minutes per day
Think about the time you spent sitting on weekdays pre-pandemic. This may include time spent sitting at a desk, visiting friends, reading, or sitting or lying down to watch television.
How much time did you spend sitting on a weekday?
_____ hours per day
_____ minutes per day
The next part of this section will focus on your mental health. In the end questions please go
into as much detail as possible.
Short Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS)
This scale consists of several words that describe different feelings and emotions. Please state the extent you felt these moods during the average week pre March 2020.
Very slightly a little moderately quite a bit extremely
Or not at all
DISTRESSED 1 2 3 4 5
EXCITED 1 2 3 4 5
UPSET 1 2 3 4 5
SCARED 1 2 3 4 5
ENTHUSIASTIC 1 2 3 4 5
ALERT 1 2 3 4 5
INSPIRED 1 2 3 4 5
NERVOUS 1 2 3 4 5
DETERMINED 1 2 3 4 5
AFRAID 1 2 3 4 5
During the average week before the pandemic what was your average mood like and why.
If you weren’t feeling great, what measures did you take to make yourself feel better?
Section Two – Lockdown
This section focuses on how you felt and the physical activity you did during the average week in the first lockdown March 2020- June 2020
Think back to all the moderate and vigorous physical activity you completed during this period. Moderate and vigorous physical activities refer to any activities that take moderate to hard physical effort and increase your breathing and heart rate much more than usual. Think only about the times you did these activities for 10 or more minutes.
During the average week in lockdown on how many days did you do moderate to vigorous activities.
_____ days per week.
How much time did you spend doing those activities on one of those days?
_____ hours per day
_____minutes per day
How many hours on average per week?
_____average per week
Think also about the time you spent walking.
On how many days did you walk for at least 10 minutes at a time?
_____ days per week
How much time did you usually spend walking on one of those days?
_____ hours per day
_____ minutes per day
Think about the time you spent sitting.
During lockdown, how much time did you spend sitting on a weekday?
_____ hours per day
_____ minutes per day
The next part of this section will focus on your mental health. In the end questions please go
into as much detail as possible.
Short Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS)
This scale consists of several words that describe different feelings and emotions. Please state the extent you felt these moods during the average week.
Very slightly a little moderately quite a bit extremely
Or not at all
DISTRESSED 1 2 3 4 5
EXCITED 1 2 3 4 5
UPSET 1 2 3 4 5
SCARED 1 2 3 4 5
ENTHUSIASTIC 1 2 3 4 5
ALERT 1 2 3 4 5
INSPIRED 1 2 3 4 5
NERVOUS 1 2 3 4 5
DETERMINED 1 2 3 4 5
AFRAID 1 2 3 4 5
During the average week of lockdown what did you feel like and why.
If you weren’t feeling great, what measures did you take to make yourself feel better?
Section Three – Now
This section focuses on how you feel and the physical activity you have done over the last seven days.
Think back to all the moderate and vigorous physical activity you completed over the last seven days Moderate and vigorous physical activities refer to any activities that take moderate to hard physical effort and increase your breathing and heart rate much more than usual. Think only about the times you did these activities for 10 or more minutes.
How many days did you do moderate to vigorous activities.
_____ days per week.
How much time did you spend doing those activities on one of those days?
_____ hours per day
_____minutes per day
How many hours on average per week?
_____average per week
Think also about the time you spent walking. This includes at work, university and at home, walking to travel from place to place, and any other walking that you might do solely for recreation, sport, exercise, or leisure.
On how many days did you walk for at least 10 minutes at a time?
_____ days per week
How much time did you usually spend walking on one of those days?
_____ hours per day
_____ minutes per day
Think about the time you spent sitting on weekdays during the last 7 days. This may include time spent sitting at a desk, visiting friends, reading, or sitting or lying down to watch television.
During the last 7 days, how much time did you spend sitting on a weekday?
_____ hours per day
_____ minutes per day
The next part of this section will focus on your mental health. In the end questions please go
into as much detail as possible.
Short Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS)
This scale consists of several words that describe different feelings and emotions. Please state the extent you felt these moods during the average week.
Very slightly a little moderately quite a bit extremely
Or not at all
DISTRESSED 1 2 3 4 5
EXCITED 1 2 3 4 5
UPSET 1 2 3 4 5
SCARED 1 2 3 4 5
ENTHUSIASTIC 1 2 3 4 5
ALERT 1 2 3 4 5
INSPIRED 1 2 3 4 5
NERVOUS 1 2 3 4 5
DETERMINED 1 2 3 4 5
AFRAID 1 2 3 4 5
During the last seven days what did you feel like and why.
If you weren’t feeling great, what measures did you take to make yourself feel better?
Section Four – Reflection
Explain in words the changes in your physical activity/ exercise over the three periods.
Explain why this change occurred. If you didn’t change your physical activity/exercise habits explain why they didn’t change
Explain in words the changes to your mood over the three time periods.
Explain in words why you feel any changes in mood occured
