Experiences of How Health and Lifestyle among Individuals with Knee Pain Have Been Influenced during the COVID-19 Pandemic, a HALLOA Study
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Design
2.2. Context
2.3. Participants
2.4. Data Collection
2.5. Data Analysis
2.6. Ethical Considerations
3. Results
3.1. Adjusting Behaviors Because of the COVID-19 Pandemic
3.1.1. Spending Time at Home
Right now it feels like you should try to keep to yourself a lot. It’s the family that is trying to figure out what they can do now.(Participant no. 11)
I have the ambition to get started with some strength training again, but have waited. A bit because of what we find ourselves in today, with the pandemic, but I have started to do a little bit here at home.(Participant no. 14)
3.1.2. Becoming Digital
It’s really this close contact you get with people. Humans probably need this physical contact in some way as well, and not just sit and watch a screen.(Participant no. 22)
No, it’s just been a phone call now and again. Grandma only has a normal old-fashioned mobile phone and no data or things like that. There is no FaceTime or anything advanced in that direction. There is mostly just absence, quite simply.(Participant no. 16)
I can imagine that if I had had physical meetings, then maybe something different would have happened, but I don’t really know today what it could be. So that’s what I mean, that creativity and that ideas thinking and that flow I don’t think work in the same way as when you meet. For various reasons, I think. Maybe you also have more respect for the fact that a person has travelled a long way. You may be more prepared than these meetings. Yes, okay now there’s a new meeting at 10, and there’s one at 1 pm and then it’s a little more casual and you get it over with in a different way. While you have a different respect for a physical encounter, I can imagine.(Participant no. 14)
You are surprisingly adaptable too, I think. Especially at work, that all of a sudden everyone was at home and sat at home and worked. All this with digitization and so on, that it went so fast that you adapt to it.(Participant no. 18)
3.1.3. Spending Time Outdoors
I understand my parents a bit, that they miss meeting and so on. Mum has talked a bit that “now it’s your turn to come home and eat, when the weather is just a little better so we can sit outside”.(Participant no. 22)
It doesn’t have to be that you hang out with your friends on a Saturday night, that you should invite each other home or whatever it is that you do. Without being able to ring each other one day in the middle of the week after work. “Shall we go for a walk this evening?”. So you meet and walk and talk at the same time. It’s a nice way to hang out too.(Participant no. 6)
3.2. Revaluing Life Because of the COVID-19 Pandemic
3.2.1. Having a Positive Outlook on Life
It’s hard of course, because it’s corona. But I can’t, I can’t just bury myself. You still have to have common sense. The guidelines, of course, you have to keep them all, but I don’t have to stop living because of it.(Participant no. 4)
I don’t have a huge amount of social interaction in the first place. I haven’t been hit so hard by not being able to meet other people and socialize. Then there are certain social things that usually feel awkward and that I have to do, even though really I don’t want to. Now I have been able to blame the fact that it’s not possible, now when it’s Corona. So, we have ignored all that stuff and got rid of that hard boring stuff. In that way, it has been really positive. I have been able to blame Corona, although really I don’t want to.(Participant no. 16)
3.2.2. Sharing Responsibility
You have to set up your own rules in some way. I think that one has adapted. I really think you notice it, that if you are somewhere in a shop or something that you do, people go a little to the side and so on. Then you don’t have to expose yourself to that type ofthing, where you are in situations where it’s very crowded and things like that.(Participant no. 18)
I’m actually trying to do it my way. I took the COVID test when I was going to drive my father, who was going to go and have a heart valve changed. Just to check that I didn’t have it.(Participant no. 12)
It was a little hard before because my mother-in-law was ill. She’s dead now. But she was sad because I was up with her a lot and helped her before the pandemic. But when it came, they got it. This Corona. So there were such restrictions so it was dead hard. Yes, I tried anyway, you know. When I was out shopping I bought a plant and I gave it to the staff so that it would give it to her. So that she would still feel that we are out here for her anyway. But she decided she did not want to live anymore because she thought it was so hard. I was the one who took care of her, my mother-in-law. So now that it was like this, I couldn’t just come in and have coffee. She loved that I did. It wasn’t possible now.(Participant no. 15)
4. Discussion
Methodological Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Gender, Women/Men | 12/7 |
Age, median (range) | 51 (41–62) |
Civil status, Co-habiting/Living alone | 16/3 |
Place of residence, City/countryside | 11/8 |
Native-born/foreign-born | 16/3 |
Level of education, Primary school/Secondary/University | 2/9/6 |
BMI a, Normal/ overweight /obesity 1/obesity 2/obesity 3 | 6/6/4/2/1 |
KOA b | 9 |
Pain group, NCP/CRP/CWP | 1/10/8 |
Physical activity c, Moderate intensity: Meeting/ not meeting recommendations Vigorous intensity: Meeting/ not meeting recommendations | 10/9 4/15 |
Sedentary, hours median (range) | 6 (1.5–11.5) |
Category | Sub-Categories | Code | Condensed Meanings Unit | Meanings Unit |
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Adjusting behaviours because of the COVID-19 pandemic | Becoming digital | Socialising digital | With the help of technology, have we, during the COVID-19 pandemic, been able to see each other face-to-face. | The pandemic has probably made it monotonous, but then I think, you could with the help of technology, you could… yes, see each other like this. Is this what Facetime is called? Participant no. 13. |
Categories | Sub-Categories |
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Adjusting behaviours because of the COVID-19 pandemic | Spending time at home |
Becoming digital | |
Spending time outdoors | |
Revaluing life because of the COVID-19 pandemic | Having a positive outlook on life |
Sharing responsibility |
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Sunesson, E.; Sylwander, C.; Haglund, E.; Andersson, M.L.E.; Larsson, I. Experiences of How Health and Lifestyle among Individuals with Knee Pain Have Been Influenced during the COVID-19 Pandemic, a HALLOA Study. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 8255. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19148255
Sunesson E, Sylwander C, Haglund E, Andersson MLE, Larsson I. Experiences of How Health and Lifestyle among Individuals with Knee Pain Have Been Influenced during the COVID-19 Pandemic, a HALLOA Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2022; 19(14):8255. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19148255
Chicago/Turabian StyleSunesson, Evelina, Charlotte Sylwander, Emma Haglund, Maria L. E. Andersson, and Ingrid Larsson. 2022. "Experiences of How Health and Lifestyle among Individuals with Knee Pain Have Been Influenced during the COVID-19 Pandemic, a HALLOA Study" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 14: 8255. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19148255