Social Inequalities in Changes in Diet in Adolescents during Confinement Due to COVID-19 in Spain : The DESKcohort Project
Aguilar-Martínez, Alicia (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. Foodlab Research Group)
Bosque Prous, Marina (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Psicobiologia i de Metodologia de les Ciències de la Salut)
González Casals, Helena (Universitat de Vic)
Colillas-Malet, Ester (Universitat de Vic)
Puigcorbé, Susanna (Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona)
Esquius, Laura (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. Foodlab Research Group)
Espelt, Albert (Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública)
Universitat Central de Catalunya

Date:	2021
Abstract:	Adolescence is a critical period in the consolidation of healthy lifestyles that can last into adulthood. To analyze changes in food consumption and eating behaviors in high-school adolescents during the first confinement, a cross-sectional study was conducted at the end of confinement in Spain. Changes in the frequency or quantity of consumption of different types of food and food-related behaviors were analyzed. Socioeconomic and health-related variables were also considered. To determine whether dietary changes were related to socioeconomic position (SEP), Poisson regression models with robust variance were estimated. Overall, there were some changes towards a healthier diet such as an increase in fruit consumption (38. 9%) and a decrease in the consumption of soft drinks (49. 8%), sweets and pastries (39. 3%), and convenience foods (49. 2%). Some changes, however, were related to less healthy behaviors, such as a more irregular pattern of meal distribution (39. 9%) or an increase in snacking between meals (56. 4%). Changes towards less healthy eating were also related to students' SEP. The risk of worsening the diet was found to be 21% higher in adolescents from a more disadvantaged SEP. Future public policies could be adapted to avoid increasing nutritional and health inequalities.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Adolescent ; Food habits ; Socioeconomic position ; Social inequalities ; COVID-19
Published in:	Nutrients, Vol. 13 (may 2021) , ISSN 2072-6643

DOI: 10.3390/nu13051577
PMID: 34066867

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