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- Importance of physical health for European millennials: impact of COVID-19 on perceived importance of physical health in the futurePublication . Letz, Jan Niklas; Ferreira, Lara NThis work addresses the lack of knowledge about whether the Covid-19 pandemic will lead to a change in attitude toward physical health. The aim was to assess the impact on the perceived importance of physical health among European millennials. For this purpose, an online questionnaire was conducted. The items developed intended to measure the general importance of physical health, the specific perceived importance of physical health, and changes in attitudes towards physical health among the target group. The quality criteria of the questionnaire have been statistically verified. For data collection, a link to an online version of the questionnaire was initially sent to directly accessible persons of the respective target group, with the request to forward this link to further individuals belonging to the target group. This procedure led to a non-randomised sample in this research. The final evaluation was based on a sample of 188 respondents, of which 116 were female, 70 male, and two respondents indicated non-binary as their gender. With 158 participants who grew up in Germany, the sample only represents a section of the European region. The following conclusions can be drawn from the data collected: Physical health is important for European millennials. The Covid-19 pandemic has a changing impact on attitudes. This study shows that physical health is important for European millennials and Covid-19 further increased this attitude. While a tendency in the attitude toward the perceived importance of physical health can be observed, however, the trend is statistically not reliable. It is recommended to further develop the developed survey instrument to obtain more reliable data on the perceived importance of physical health and apply additional methods that would benefit the detection of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on this construct.