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Eating Habits and Sleep Quality during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Adult Population of Ecuador
Confinement due to COVID-19 has brought important changes in people’s lives as well as in their eating and resting habits. In this study we aimed at exploring the eating habits and sleep quality of the adult population of Ecuador during the mandatory confinement due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8037487/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33807140 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18073606 |
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author | Ramos-Padilla, Patricio Villavicencio-Barriga, Verónica Dayana Cárdenas-Quintana, Haydeé Abril-Merizalde, Leonardo Solís-Manzano, Angélica Carpio-Arias, Tannia Valeria |
author_facet | Ramos-Padilla, Patricio Villavicencio-Barriga, Verónica Dayana Cárdenas-Quintana, Haydeé Abril-Merizalde, Leonardo Solís-Manzano, Angélica Carpio-Arias, Tannia Valeria |
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description | Confinement due to COVID-19 has brought important changes in people’s lives as well as in their eating and resting habits. In this study we aimed at exploring the eating habits and sleep quality of the adult population of Ecuador during the mandatory confinement due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is a cross-sectional study, which used an online survey that included questions about eating habits and sleeping habits in adults (n = 9522) between 18–69 years old. The Pittsburg sleep quality questionnaire validated for the Hispanic population was used, and questions about dietary habits. The statistical test Chi-square statistical test was used to analyze the data. The results show that sleep quality differs according to sex, being worse in women, both in all components of sleep quality and in the total score (p < 0.001). Women had greater changes in the habitual consumption of food compared to men (24.24% vs. 22.53%), and people between 18 and 40 years of age decreased their food consumption in relation to people >40 years (24.06% vs. 17.73%). Our results indicate that mandatory confinement due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ecuador has generated changes in the eating habits and sleep quality in the adult population sampled, and these changes are more noticeable in women and young adults. These changes offer an important alert for the health system and further, advice for the implementation of future public health policies. |
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spelling | pubmed-80374872021-04-12 Eating Habits and Sleep Quality during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Adult Population of Ecuador Ramos-Padilla, Patricio Villavicencio-Barriga, Verónica Dayana Cárdenas-Quintana, Haydeé Abril-Merizalde, Leonardo Solís-Manzano, Angélica Carpio-Arias, Tannia Valeria Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Confinement due to COVID-19 has brought important changes in people’s lives as well as in their eating and resting habits. In this study we aimed at exploring the eating habits and sleep quality of the adult population of Ecuador during the mandatory confinement due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is a cross-sectional study, which used an online survey that included questions about eating habits and sleeping habits in adults (n = 9522) between 18–69 years old. The Pittsburg sleep quality questionnaire validated for the Hispanic population was used, and questions about dietary habits. The statistical test Chi-square statistical test was used to analyze the data. The results show that sleep quality differs according to sex, being worse in women, both in all components of sleep quality and in the total score (p < 0.001). Women had greater changes in the habitual consumption of food compared to men (24.24% vs. 22.53%), and people between 18 and 40 years of age decreased their food consumption in relation to people >40 years (24.06% vs. 17.73%). Our results indicate that mandatory confinement due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ecuador has generated changes in the eating habits and sleep quality in the adult population sampled, and these changes are more noticeable in women and young adults. These changes offer an important alert for the health system and further, advice for the implementation of future public health policies. MDPI 2021-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC8037487/ /pubmed/33807140 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18073606 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Ramos-Padilla, Patricio Villavicencio-Barriga, Verónica Dayana Cárdenas-Quintana, Haydeé Abril-Merizalde, Leonardo Solís-Manzano, Angélica Carpio-Arias, Tannia Valeria Eating Habits and Sleep Quality during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Adult Population of Ecuador |
title | Eating Habits and Sleep Quality during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Adult Population of Ecuador |
title_full | Eating Habits and Sleep Quality during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Adult Population of Ecuador |
title_fullStr | Eating Habits and Sleep Quality during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Adult Population of Ecuador |
title_full_unstemmed | Eating Habits and Sleep Quality during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Adult Population of Ecuador |
title_short | Eating Habits and Sleep Quality during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Adult Population of Ecuador |
title_sort | eating habits and sleep quality during the covid-19 pandemic in adult population of ecuador |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8037487/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33807140 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18073606 |
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