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An Online Cross-Sectional Survey of Complementary Feeding Practices during the COVID-19 Restrictions in Poland
This cross-sectional online survey performed in Poland aimed to improve understanding of how COVID-19 pandemic restrictions affected complementary feeding practices among parents of infants aged 4 to 12 months. Self-selected parents were recruited through the internet. The anonymous questionnaire wa...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8471223/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34579073 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu13093196 |
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author | Horvath, Andrea Stróżyk, Agata Dziechciarz, Piotr Szajewska, Hania |
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description | This cross-sectional online survey performed in Poland aimed to improve understanding of how COVID-19 pandemic restrictions affected complementary feeding practices among parents of infants aged 4 to 12 months. Self-selected parents were recruited through the internet. The anonymous questionnaire was opened during two intervals during COVID-19 restrictions. The primary outcome was an assessment of sources of information and infant feeding practices in the context of COVID-19 restrictions. Data from 6934 responders (92.2% mothers) were analyzed. Most responders received information from multiple sources, with other parents, family members, or friends being the most frequently reported (48.6%), followed by webinars and experts’ recommendations (40.8%). COVID-19 restrictions largely did not impact the method of feeding, changes in feeding patterns, or complementary feeding introduction, although the latter was more likely to be impacted in families with average versus the best financial situations. Multivariate logistic regression analysis also most consistently showed that parents with a tertiary education and living in a city above 500 k were at higher odds of using webinars/experts’ recommendations, internet/apps, and professional expert guides and lower odds of claiming no need to deepen knowledge. This study clarifies major issues associated with complementary feeding practices during the implementation of COVID-19 restrictions in Poland. |
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spelling | pubmed-84712232021-09-27 An Online Cross-Sectional Survey of Complementary Feeding Practices during the COVID-19 Restrictions in Poland Horvath, Andrea Stróżyk, Agata Dziechciarz, Piotr Szajewska, Hania Nutrients Article This cross-sectional online survey performed in Poland aimed to improve understanding of how COVID-19 pandemic restrictions affected complementary feeding practices among parents of infants aged 4 to 12 months. Self-selected parents were recruited through the internet. The anonymous questionnaire was opened during two intervals during COVID-19 restrictions. The primary outcome was an assessment of sources of information and infant feeding practices in the context of COVID-19 restrictions. Data from 6934 responders (92.2% mothers) were analyzed. Most responders received information from multiple sources, with other parents, family members, or friends being the most frequently reported (48.6%), followed by webinars and experts’ recommendations (40.8%). COVID-19 restrictions largely did not impact the method of feeding, changes in feeding patterns, or complementary feeding introduction, although the latter was more likely to be impacted in families with average versus the best financial situations. Multivariate logistic regression analysis also most consistently showed that parents with a tertiary education and living in a city above 500 k were at higher odds of using webinars/experts’ recommendations, internet/apps, and professional expert guides and lower odds of claiming no need to deepen knowledge. This study clarifies major issues associated with complementary feeding practices during the implementation of COVID-19 restrictions in Poland. MDPI 2021-09-14 /pmc/articles/PMC8471223/ /pubmed/34579073 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu13093196 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 Horvath, Andrea Stróżyk, Agata Dziechciarz, Piotr Szajewska, Hania An Online Cross-Sectional Survey of Complementary Feeding Practices during the COVID-19 Restrictions in Poland |
title | An Online Cross-Sectional Survey of Complementary Feeding Practices during the COVID-19 Restrictions in Poland |
title_full | An Online Cross-Sectional Survey of Complementary Feeding Practices during the COVID-19 Restrictions in Poland |
title_fullStr | An Online Cross-Sectional Survey of Complementary Feeding Practices during the COVID-19 Restrictions in Poland |
title_full_unstemmed | An Online Cross-Sectional Survey of Complementary Feeding Practices during the COVID-19 Restrictions in Poland |
title_short | An Online Cross-Sectional Survey of Complementary Feeding Practices during the COVID-19 Restrictions in Poland |
title_sort | online cross-sectional survey of complementary feeding practices during the covid-19 restrictions in poland |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8471223/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34579073 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu13093196 |
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