1. Social inequalities in changes in diet in adolescents during confinement due to covid-19 in Spain: The DESKcohort project
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Aguilar-Martínez, Alicia, Bosque Prous, Marina, González-Casals, Helena, Colillas-Malet, Ester, Puigcorbé, Susanna, Esquius, Laura, Espelt, Albert, Universitat Central de Catalunya, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Universitat de Vic-Universitat Central de Catalunya (UVic-UCC), and Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBEResp)
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Male ,0301 basic medicine ,food.type_of_dish ,Convenience food ,Cross-sectional study ,Health Behavior ,food habits ,Article ,03 medical and health sciences ,symbols.namesake ,0302 clinical medicine ,food ,Environmental health ,Humans ,Medicine ,TX341-641 ,Social inequality ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Poisson regression ,Child ,skin and connective tissue diseases ,Socioeconomic status ,Consumption (economics) ,Meal ,030109 nutrition & dietetics ,Nutrition and Dietetics ,Snacking ,social inequalities ,SARS-CoV-2 ,Nutrition. Foods and food supply ,business.industry ,digestive, oral, and skin physiology ,COVID-19 ,socioeconomic position ,Feeding Behavior ,Cross-Sectional Studies ,Socioeconomic Factors ,Spain ,adolescent ,Quarantine ,symbols ,Female ,sense organs ,business ,Food Science - 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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- 2021