home-based bodyweight training: an emergency approach to enhance students’ quality of life

Background: a sedentary lifestyle declines quality of life and would be a critical threat to the future. planning for post-covid life must be a strategy during confinement. in this paper, we aimed to investigate the effect of home-based training as an available program on students’ quality of life.methods: this was a quasi-experimental study with a pretest-posttest design. the participants were selected from male high school students in tehran, iran, during 2020-2021. thirty high school students were randomly assigned to home-based training (hbt, n=15) and non-exercise control group (cg, n=15). simple random sampling method was used to randomly assign the study participants to test and control groups. hbt was performed four times a week, 60 minutes per session, for eight weeks. the short version of the world health organization quality of life (qol) instrument was used to evaluate qol, covering four domains: self-perceived physical health, psychological health, social relationships, and environment. following the confirmation of data normality via the kolmogorov-smirnov test, ancova was employed to assess training effectiveness, and levene’s test was used to verify variance homogeneity assumptions.results: after post-test, mean self-perceived physical health (cg) stood at (60.91±14.81), markedly lower than that of the hbt group (86.14±12.54) (p=0.001). furthermore, mean psychological health in the cg and hbt groups were (54.03±23.98) and (73.49±14.28), respectively, exhibiting statistical significance (p=0.001). however, no remarkable changes occurred in the social (p=0.992) and environmental domain (p=0.146) after training protocol. none of the variables exhibited significant alterations in the cg group.conclusion: noticeable outcomes of home-based body weight training discerned in the physical, psychological, and general domain of qol after the program. it is suggested to evaluate other aspects of students’ lives like home-based family training to make a passable bridge from covid-pandemic to post-covid life.