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Self-Perceived Physical Activity and Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet in Healthy Adolescents during COVID-19: Findings from the DIMENU Pilot Study

The global pandemic coronavirus disease (COVID-19) resulted in restrictions which forced adolescents to stay at home and influenced their food habits and lifestyles with potential negative health impact. This study aims to investigate the self-reported physical activity (PA) and eating habits relate...

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Autores principales: Galluccio, Angelo, Caparello, Giovanna, Avolio, Ennio, Manes, Emanuele, Ferraro, Simona, Giordano, Cinzia, Sisci, Diego, Bonofiglio, Daniela
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Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8224730/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34070999
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9060622
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author Galluccio, Angelo
Caparello, Giovanna
Avolio, Ennio
Manes, Emanuele
Ferraro, Simona
Giordano, Cinzia
Sisci, Diego
Bonofiglio, Daniela
author_facet Galluccio, Angelo
Caparello, Giovanna
Avolio, Ennio
Manes, Emanuele
Ferraro, Simona
Giordano, Cinzia
Sisci, Diego
Bonofiglio, Daniela
author_sort Galluccio, Angelo
collection PubMed
description The global pandemic coronavirus disease (COVID-19) resulted in restrictions which forced adolescents to stay at home and influenced their food habits and lifestyles with potential negative health impact. This study aims to investigate the self-reported physical activity (PA) and eating habits related to the consumption of Mediterranean foods in a sample of adolescents during the COVID-19 lockdown enrolled into the DIMENU study. A web survey was launched for 91 adolescents (aged 15–17 years) to assess their adherence to the Mediterranean Diet using the KIDMED test and lifestyle habits using a questionnaire designed following recommendations by Italian National Institute of Health (ISS score). Our results indicate that most of the sample declared no changes in eating habits and PA without sex differences. After dividing the sample into active and sedentary groups based on the self-perceived PA, we found that KIDMED and ISS scores were significantly higher (p = 0.0028 and p = 0.0001, respectively) in active adolescents. Moreover, KIDMED was positively correlated with ISS only in active adolescents (r = 0.311, p = 0.0185). In conclusion, our data underline the impact of the PA on the Mediterranean diet adherence in adolescents during the lockdown, suggesting the usefulness of promoting wellness programs directed towards inactive individuals to increase their awareness on the importance of healthy lifestyles.
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spelling pubmed-82247302021-06-25 Self-Perceived Physical Activity and Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet in Healthy Adolescents during COVID-19: Findings from the DIMENU Pilot Study Galluccio, Angelo Caparello, Giovanna Avolio, Ennio Manes, Emanuele Ferraro, Simona Giordano, Cinzia Sisci, Diego Bonofiglio, Daniela Healthcare (Basel) Article The global pandemic coronavirus disease (COVID-19) resulted in restrictions which forced adolescents to stay at home and influenced their food habits and lifestyles with potential negative health impact. This study aims to investigate the self-reported physical activity (PA) and eating habits related to the consumption of Mediterranean foods in a sample of adolescents during the COVID-19 lockdown enrolled into the DIMENU study. A web survey was launched for 91 adolescents (aged 15–17 years) to assess their adherence to the Mediterranean Diet using the KIDMED test and lifestyle habits using a questionnaire designed following recommendations by Italian National Institute of Health (ISS score). Our results indicate that most of the sample declared no changes in eating habits and PA without sex differences. After dividing the sample into active and sedentary groups based on the self-perceived PA, we found that KIDMED and ISS scores were significantly higher (p = 0.0028 and p = 0.0001, respectively) in active adolescents. Moreover, KIDMED was positively correlated with ISS only in active adolescents (r = 0.311, p = 0.0185). In conclusion, our data underline the impact of the PA on the Mediterranean diet adherence in adolescents during the lockdown, suggesting the usefulness of promoting wellness programs directed towards inactive individuals to increase their awareness on the importance of healthy lifestyles. MDPI 2021-05-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8224730/ /pubmed/34070999 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9060622 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/).
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Galluccio, Angelo
Caparello, Giovanna
Avolio, Ennio
Manes, Emanuele
Ferraro, Simona
Giordano, Cinzia
Sisci, Diego
Bonofiglio, Daniela
Self-Perceived Physical Activity and Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet in Healthy Adolescents during COVID-19: Findings from the DIMENU Pilot Study
title Self-Perceived Physical Activity and Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet in Healthy Adolescents during COVID-19: Findings from the DIMENU Pilot Study
title_full Self-Perceived Physical Activity and Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet in Healthy Adolescents during COVID-19: Findings from the DIMENU Pilot Study
title_fullStr Self-Perceived Physical Activity and Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet in Healthy Adolescents during COVID-19: Findings from the DIMENU Pilot Study
title_full_unstemmed Self-Perceived Physical Activity and Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet in Healthy Adolescents during COVID-19: Findings from the DIMENU Pilot Study
title_short Self-Perceived Physical Activity and Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet in Healthy Adolescents during COVID-19: Findings from the DIMENU Pilot Study
title_sort self-perceived physical activity and adherence to the mediterranean diet in healthy adolescents during covid-19: findings from the dimenu pilot study
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8224730/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34070999
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9060622
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