Data
Year of publication
2020
Type
Quantitative
Design
Cross-sectional
Classification
Other
Country studied
Brazil
Data
Primary
Data Collected
Two surveys
Study setting
Household
Age group of participant
Adults/18+
Participant sex
Mixed
Target population
General
Sample size
n=10116 (participants)
Food changes in the NutriNet Brasil cohort during the Covid-19 pandemic
Goal
Describe the dietary characteristics of participants in the NutriNet Brasil cohort immediately before and during the covid-19 pandemic.
Results
For all participants, we found a modest but statistically significant increase in the consumption of healthy eating markers and stability in the consumption of unhealthy food markers. This favorable pattern of dietary changes during the pandemic occurred in most sociodemographic strata. We observed a less favorable changing pattern, with a tendency to increasing consumption of healthy and unhealthy food markers, in the Northeast and North macro-regions and among people with less schooling, suggesting social inequalities in the response to the pandemic.
Authors
Steele EM, Rauber F, Costa CS, et al.
Journal
Public Health Journal
DOI