B3795 - Evaluating the effect of school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic A natural experiment in South Korea - 01/06/2021
B number:
B3795
Principal applicant name:
Buhm Han | Seoul National University (Republic of Korea)
Co-applicants:
Title of project:
Evaluating the effect of school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic: A natural experiment in South Korea
Proposal summary:
This study aims evaluate the impact of school closure during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea. Using another cohort consisting of South Korean adolescents in the 7th to 12th grade, we found that physical activity was significantly reduced due to school closures. This provides a chance to evaluate the effect of physical activity reduction in adolescents on other health-related outcomes. On the other hand, Mendelian randomisation is an alternative study design that can measure the effect of physical activity on other health-related outcomes. Our goal is to compare the two study designs on the same subject so that we can critically evaluate the validity of these study designs.
Impact of research:
Date proposal received:
Sunday, 23 May, 2021
Date proposal approved:
Tuesday, 1 June, 2021
Keywords:
Epidemiology, Obesity, GWAS, Statistical methods, BMI, Childhood - childcare, childhood adversity, Genetic epidemiology, Genome wide association study, Methods - e.g. cross cohort analysis, data mining, mendelian randomisation, etc., Physical - activity, fitness, function