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Cooking at Home and Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet During the COVID-19 Confinement: The Experience From the Croatian COVIDiet Study
Introduction: The primary aims of this study were to evaluate the changes in dietary behavior among the Croatian adult population during the COVID-19 outbreak and to explore the impact of confinement on cooking habits. Methods: The study was based on results from COVIDiet_Int cross-sectional study—a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8044460/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33869262 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2021.617721 |
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author | Pfeifer, Danijela Rešetar, Josip Gajdoš Kljusurić, Jasenka Panjkota Krbavčić, Ines Vranešić Bender, Darija Rodríguez-Pérez, Celia Ruíz-López, María Dolores Šatalić, Zvonimir |
author_facet | Pfeifer, Danijela Rešetar, Josip Gajdoš Kljusurić, Jasenka Panjkota Krbavčić, Ines Vranešić Bender, Darija Rodríguez-Pérez, Celia Ruíz-López, María Dolores Šatalić, Zvonimir |
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description | Introduction: The primary aims of this study were to evaluate the changes in dietary behavior among the Croatian adult population during the COVID-19 outbreak and to explore the impact of confinement on cooking habits. Methods: The study was based on results from COVIDiet_Int cross-sectional study—a part of COVIDiet project (NCT04449731). A self-administered online questionnaire was used to assess the frequency of food consumption, eating habits, and sociodemographic information. A total number of 4,281 participants (80.5% females and 19.4% males) completed the questionnaire. Results: The Mediterranean Diet Adherence Screener (MEDAS) score before the confinement was 5.02 ± 1.97, while during the confinement, the MEDAS score increased to 5.85 ± 2.04. Participants who had higher adherence to the Mediterranean diet (MedDiet) during the confinement were mostly females (88.8%), aged between 20 and 50 years, with the highest level of education (66.3%) and normal BMI (70.6%). The majority of participants maintained their dietary behavior as it was before COVID-19 confinement, while 36.9% decreased their physical activity. Participants with higher MEDAS score were more eager to increase their physical activity. Additionally, higher median values of MEDAS score were noted for participants with body mass index values below 24.9 kg/m(2) (6.0 vs. 5.0 for participants with BMI above 25 kg/m(2)). Participants in all residence places increased their cooking frequency during the confinement (53.8%), which was associated with an increase in vegetables, legumes, as well as fish and seafood consumption. Conclusions: According to our findings, Croatian adults exhibited medium adherence to the MedDiet during the COVID-19 confinement. The results suggest that cooking frequency could be positively associated with overall dietary quality, which is of utmost importance in these demanding times. |
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spelling | pubmed-80444602021-04-15 Cooking at Home and Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet During the COVID-19 Confinement: The Experience From the Croatian COVIDiet Study Pfeifer, Danijela Rešetar, Josip Gajdoš Kljusurić, Jasenka Panjkota Krbavčić, Ines Vranešić Bender, Darija Rodríguez-Pérez, Celia Ruíz-López, María Dolores Šatalić, Zvonimir Front Nutr Nutrition Introduction: The primary aims of this study were to evaluate the changes in dietary behavior among the Croatian adult population during the COVID-19 outbreak and to explore the impact of confinement on cooking habits. Methods: The study was based on results from COVIDiet_Int cross-sectional study—a part of COVIDiet project (NCT04449731). A self-administered online questionnaire was used to assess the frequency of food consumption, eating habits, and sociodemographic information. A total number of 4,281 participants (80.5% females and 19.4% males) completed the questionnaire. Results: The Mediterranean Diet Adherence Screener (MEDAS) score before the confinement was 5.02 ± 1.97, while during the confinement, the MEDAS score increased to 5.85 ± 2.04. Participants who had higher adherence to the Mediterranean diet (MedDiet) during the confinement were mostly females (88.8%), aged between 20 and 50 years, with the highest level of education (66.3%) and normal BMI (70.6%). The majority of participants maintained their dietary behavior as it was before COVID-19 confinement, while 36.9% decreased their physical activity. Participants with higher MEDAS score were more eager to increase their physical activity. Additionally, higher median values of MEDAS score were noted for participants with body mass index values below 24.9 kg/m(2) (6.0 vs. 5.0 for participants with BMI above 25 kg/m(2)). Participants in all residence places increased their cooking frequency during the confinement (53.8%), which was associated with an increase in vegetables, legumes, as well as fish and seafood consumption. Conclusions: According to our findings, Croatian adults exhibited medium adherence to the MedDiet during the COVID-19 confinement. The results suggest that cooking frequency could be positively associated with overall dietary quality, which is of utmost importance in these demanding times. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC8044460/ /pubmed/33869262 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2021.617721 Text en Copyright © 2021 Pfeifer, Rešetar, Gajdoš Kljusurić, Panjkota Krbavčić, Vranešić Bender, Rodríguez-Pérez, Ruíz-López and Šatalić. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Nutrition Pfeifer, Danijela Rešetar, Josip Gajdoš Kljusurić, Jasenka Panjkota Krbavčić, Ines Vranešić Bender, Darija Rodríguez-Pérez, Celia Ruíz-López, María Dolores Šatalić, Zvonimir Cooking at Home and Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet During the COVID-19 Confinement: The Experience From the Croatian COVIDiet Study |
title | Cooking at Home and Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet During the COVID-19 Confinement: The Experience From the Croatian COVIDiet Study |
title_full | Cooking at Home and Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet During the COVID-19 Confinement: The Experience From the Croatian COVIDiet Study |
title_fullStr | Cooking at Home and Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet During the COVID-19 Confinement: The Experience From the Croatian COVIDiet Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Cooking at Home and Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet During the COVID-19 Confinement: The Experience From the Croatian COVIDiet Study |
title_short | Cooking at Home and Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet During the COVID-19 Confinement: The Experience From the Croatian COVIDiet Study |
title_sort | cooking at home and adherence to the mediterranean diet during the covid-19 confinement: the experience from the croatian covidiet study |
topic | Nutrition |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8044460/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33869262 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2021.617721 |
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