Front. Public Health Frontiers in Public Health Front. Public Health 2296-2565 Frontiers Media S.A. 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1622180 Public Health Correction Corrigendum: Influence of physical exercise on activities of daily living in older adults: an empirical analysis based on propensity score matching and difference-in-differences Ma Xiaoni 1 Li Xiaotian 2 Che Li 1 Dong Jie 2 * 1Graduate School, Capital University of Physical Education and Sports, Beijing, China 2School of Recreation and Community Sport, Capital University of Physical Education and Sports, Beijing, China

Edited and reviewed by: Muhlis Madani, Muhammadiyah University of Makassar, Indonesia

 *Correspondence: Jie Dong dongjie@cupes.edu.cn 18 06 2025 2025 13 1622180 02 05 2025 31 05 2025 Copyright © 2025 Ma, Li, Che and Dong. 2025 Ma, Li, Che and Dong

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 A Corrigendum on Influence of physical exercise on activities of daily living in older adults: an empirical analysis based on propensity score matching and difference-in-differences by Ma, X., Li, X., Che, L., and Dong, J. (2025). Front. Public Health 13:1463348. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1463348 activities of daily living exercise COVID-19 difference-in-differences model propensity score matching older adults section-at-acceptance Aging and Public Health

In the published article, there was an error. The direction of the impact of physical exercise on the IADL and BADL of older adults was incorrectly reported as negative, when it should have been positive.

A correction has been made to Abstract, Results, this sentence previously stated:

“In the context of COVID-19, participation in physical exercise had a negative impact on the IADL and BADL of older adults. The IADL and BADL of the older adults who participated in physical exercise were 0.189 and 0.119 units lower than those who did not participate in physical exercise. This negative impact also varied by age, for older adults aged 75 years and above, participation in physical exercise exerted a significant positive impact on both IADL and BADL.”

The corrected sentence appears below:

“In the context of COVID-19, participation in physical exercise had a positive impact on the IADL and BADL of older adults. The IADL and BADL of older adults who participated in physical exercise were 0.189 and 0.119 units higher than those who did not participate in physical exercise. This positive impact also varied by age, for older adults aged 75 years and above, participation in physical exercise exerted a significant positive impact on both IADL and BADL.”

The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.

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