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Association between eating behavior and quarantine/confinement stressors during the coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak
BACKGROUND: Quarantine/confinement is an effective measure to face the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Consequently, in response to this stressful situation, people confined to their homes may change their everyday eating behavior. Therefore, the primary objective of this study is to evaluate t...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7458649/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32879730 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40337-020-00317-0 |
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author | Haddad, Chadia Zakhour, Maha Bou kheir, Maria Haddad, Rima Al Hachach, Myriam Sacre, Hala Salameh, Pascale |
author_facet | Haddad, Chadia Zakhour, Maha Bou kheir, Maria Haddad, Rima Al Hachach, Myriam Sacre, Hala Salameh, Pascale |
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description | BACKGROUND: Quarantine/confinement is an effective measure to face the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Consequently, in response to this stressful situation, people confined to their homes may change their everyday eating behavior. Therefore, the primary objective of this study is to evaluate the association between quarantine/confinement stressors and eating behavior during the COVID-19 outbreak. The secondary objective is to compare the association of quarantine/confinement stressors and diet behavior between two groups of participants, those attending diet clinics and those not (general population). METHOD: A cross-sectional web-based online survey carried out between April 3 and 18, 2020, enrolled 407 participants from the Lebanese population. Eating Disorder Examination – Questionnaire (EDE-Q) were used to measure the behavioral features of eating disorders. RESULTS: More than half of the sample (53.0%) abide by the home quarantine/confinement, 95.4% were living with someone in the quarantine/confinement, and 39.6% continued to work from home. Higher fear of COVID-19 was found in 182 (44.8%) participants, higher boredom in 200 (49.2%) participants, higher anger in 187 (46.3%), and higher anxiety in 197 (48.5%) participants. Higher fear of COVID-19 (Beta = 0.02), higher BMI (Beta = 0.05), and physical activity (Beta = 1.04) were significantly associated with a higher restraint score. Higher anxiety, higher fear of COVID-19, higher BMI, practicing physical exercise, and a higher number of adults living in the quarantine/confinement were significantly associated with higher shape and weight concerns. CONCLUSION: Our results showed that the fear of COVID-19 was correlated with more eating restraint, weight, and shape concerns in the whole sample, but more specifically in the dietitian clients group. Public health control measures are needed to reduce the detrimental effects of psychological distress associated with quarantine/confinement on eating behaviors during the COVID-19 outbreak. |
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spelling | pubmed-74586492020-09-01 Association between eating behavior and quarantine/confinement stressors during the coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak Haddad, Chadia Zakhour, Maha Bou kheir, Maria Haddad, Rima Al Hachach, Myriam Sacre, Hala Salameh, Pascale J Eat Disord Research Article BACKGROUND: Quarantine/confinement is an effective measure to face the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Consequently, in response to this stressful situation, people confined to their homes may change their everyday eating behavior. Therefore, the primary objective of this study is to evaluate the association between quarantine/confinement stressors and eating behavior during the COVID-19 outbreak. The secondary objective is to compare the association of quarantine/confinement stressors and diet behavior between two groups of participants, those attending diet clinics and those not (general population). METHOD: A cross-sectional web-based online survey carried out between April 3 and 18, 2020, enrolled 407 participants from the Lebanese population. Eating Disorder Examination – Questionnaire (EDE-Q) were used to measure the behavioral features of eating disorders. RESULTS: More than half of the sample (53.0%) abide by the home quarantine/confinement, 95.4% were living with someone in the quarantine/confinement, and 39.6% continued to work from home. Higher fear of COVID-19 was found in 182 (44.8%) participants, higher boredom in 200 (49.2%) participants, higher anger in 187 (46.3%), and higher anxiety in 197 (48.5%) participants. Higher fear of COVID-19 (Beta = 0.02), higher BMI (Beta = 0.05), and physical activity (Beta = 1.04) were significantly associated with a higher restraint score. Higher anxiety, higher fear of COVID-19, higher BMI, practicing physical exercise, and a higher number of adults living in the quarantine/confinement were significantly associated with higher shape and weight concerns. CONCLUSION: Our results showed that the fear of COVID-19 was correlated with more eating restraint, weight, and shape concerns in the whole sample, but more specifically in the dietitian clients group. Public health control measures are needed to reduce the detrimental effects of psychological distress associated with quarantine/confinement on eating behaviors during the COVID-19 outbreak. BioMed Central 2020-09-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7458649/ /pubmed/32879730 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40337-020-00317-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Haddad, Chadia Zakhour, Maha Bou kheir, Maria Haddad, Rima Al Hachach, Myriam Sacre, Hala Salameh, Pascale Association between eating behavior and quarantine/confinement stressors during the coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak |
title | Association between eating behavior and quarantine/confinement stressors during the coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak |
title_full | Association between eating behavior and quarantine/confinement stressors during the coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak |
title_fullStr | Association between eating behavior and quarantine/confinement stressors during the coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak |
title_full_unstemmed | Association between eating behavior and quarantine/confinement stressors during the coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak |
title_short | Association between eating behavior and quarantine/confinement stressors during the coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak |
title_sort | association between eating behavior and quarantine/confinement stressors during the coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7458649/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32879730 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40337-020-00317-0 |
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