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Effect of COVID-19 Lockdown on Children’s Eating Behaviours: A Longitudinal Study

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a huge impact on children’s lifestyle and eating behaviour, resulting in an increase of obesity prevalence. The CEBQ (Children’s Eating Behaviour Questionnaire) is a validate questionnaire that investigates children’s eating behaviour. Knowing the psychological conseque...

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Autores principales: Umano, Giuseppina Rosaria, Rondinelli, Giulia, Rivetti, Giulio, Klain, Angela, Aiello, Francesca, Miraglia del Giudice, Michele, Decimo, Fabio, Papparella, Alfonso, Miraglia del Giudice, Emanuele
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Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9323163/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35884062
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children9071078
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author Umano, Giuseppina Rosaria
Rondinelli, Giulia
Rivetti, Giulio
Klain, Angela
Aiello, Francesca
Miraglia del Giudice, Michele
Decimo, Fabio
Papparella, Alfonso
Miraglia del Giudice, Emanuele
author_facet Umano, Giuseppina Rosaria
Rondinelli, Giulia
Rivetti, Giulio
Klain, Angela
Aiello, Francesca
Miraglia del Giudice, Michele
Decimo, Fabio
Papparella, Alfonso
Miraglia del Giudice, Emanuele
author_sort Umano, Giuseppina Rosaria
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description The COVID-19 pandemic has had a huge impact on children’s lifestyle and eating behaviour, resulting in an increase of obesity prevalence. The CEBQ (Children’s Eating Behaviour Questionnaire) is a validate questionnaire that investigates children’s eating behaviour. Knowing the psychological consequences of daily routine disruption during lockdown, we evaluated the changes in eating behaviours in a paediatric cohort before and during the lockdown period through the evaluation of the Italian version of the CEBQ. We prospectively enrolled children attending the pediatric clinic of the University of Campania ‘Luigi Vanvitelli’. All parents answered the parent-report version of the CEBQ before lockdown containment. During lockdown, the second survey was carried out by telephone call. The study sample included 69 children. Food responsiveness and emotional overeating subscales showed higher scores during lockdown compared to data before lockdown (p = 0.009 and p = 0.001, respectively). Conversely, desire to drink and satiety responsiveness showed lower scores at follow-up (p = 0.04 and p = 0.0001, respectively). No differences were observed for slowness in eating and enjoyment of food. Delta changes were higher in normal-weight children compared to children with obesity (p = 0.02). Our results confirm that containment measures during the COVID-19 pandemic have acted as triggers on certain eating behaviors that mostly predispose to an obesogenic manner.
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spelling pubmed-93231632022-07-27 Effect of COVID-19 Lockdown on Children’s Eating Behaviours: A Longitudinal Study Umano, Giuseppina Rosaria Rondinelli, Giulia Rivetti, Giulio Klain, Angela Aiello, Francesca Miraglia del Giudice, Michele Decimo, Fabio Papparella, Alfonso Miraglia del Giudice, Emanuele Children (Basel) Article The COVID-19 pandemic has had a huge impact on children’s lifestyle and eating behaviour, resulting in an increase of obesity prevalence. The CEBQ (Children’s Eating Behaviour Questionnaire) is a validate questionnaire that investigates children’s eating behaviour. Knowing the psychological consequences of daily routine disruption during lockdown, we evaluated the changes in eating behaviours in a paediatric cohort before and during the lockdown period through the evaluation of the Italian version of the CEBQ. We prospectively enrolled children attending the pediatric clinic of the University of Campania ‘Luigi Vanvitelli’. All parents answered the parent-report version of the CEBQ before lockdown containment. During lockdown, the second survey was carried out by telephone call. The study sample included 69 children. Food responsiveness and emotional overeating subscales showed higher scores during lockdown compared to data before lockdown (p = 0.009 and p = 0.001, respectively). Conversely, desire to drink and satiety responsiveness showed lower scores at follow-up (p = 0.04 and p = 0.0001, respectively). No differences were observed for slowness in eating and enjoyment of food. Delta changes were higher in normal-weight children compared to children with obesity (p = 0.02). Our results confirm that containment measures during the COVID-19 pandemic have acted as triggers on certain eating behaviors that mostly predispose to an obesogenic manner. MDPI 2022-07-20 /pmc/articles/PMC9323163/ /pubmed/35884062 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children9071078 Text en © 2022 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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Umano, Giuseppina Rosaria
Rondinelli, Giulia
Rivetti, Giulio
Klain, Angela
Aiello, Francesca
Miraglia del Giudice, Michele
Decimo, Fabio
Papparella, Alfonso
Miraglia del Giudice, Emanuele
Effect of COVID-19 Lockdown on Children’s Eating Behaviours: A Longitudinal Study
title Effect of COVID-19 Lockdown on Children’s Eating Behaviours: A Longitudinal Study
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title_fullStr Effect of COVID-19 Lockdown on Children’s Eating Behaviours: A Longitudinal Study
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title_short Effect of COVID-19 Lockdown on Children’s Eating Behaviours: A Longitudinal Study
title_sort effect of covid-19 lockdown on children’s eating behaviours: a longitudinal study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9323163/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35884062
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children9071078
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