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 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 1981- (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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Anglès |
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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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