Eating habits and lifestyles during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in Metropolitan Lima 2020
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https://doi.org/10.53684/csp.v5i2.156Keywords:
Eating habits, Lifestyles, Quarantine, Covid 19Abstract
ABSTRACT
With the covid 19 pandemic and the quarantine in 2020, the population made changes in their habits and lifestyles, thus opening a gap in knowledge, and we must be taken into account for the improvement of educational messages to the population.
Objective. Determine changes in eating habits and lifestyles during the quarantine period in people over 18 years of age in metropolitan Lima. Materials and methods. It is a non-probabilistic, virtual cross-sectional study, after reviewing the questionnaire by an expert judgment, the application of the questionnaire was massive through social networks and e-mails. Results: Mostly women responded (73.9%), aged between 18 to 35 years (42.3%), with a university education level (44.7%), with dependent work (61.3%), 64.4% consume food in front of an electronic device, 74.5% modified their sleep hours and physical activity (81.3%). 51.3% modified the amount of food served on the plate, in many cases they increased the portion (52.1%). The main motivation for increasing the amount of food was anxiety (38.7%) and many participants consider that their stress and anxiety levels rose during quarantine (78.4%). Conclusions. The most salient changes were in sleep hours, amount of food served on the plate and the main motivation for this reported modification was that people were with anxiety, especially in obese people.
Keywords: Eating habits, Lifestyles, Quarantine, Covid-19
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