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Impact of COVID social distancing measures on eating and exercise behaviors among a sample of Hispanic parents of young children in the United States
BACKGROUND: In the United States, healthy behaviors, such as eating fruits/vegetables and exercise, are well below recommended levels, particularly for Hispanics. The COVID pandemic may have exacerbated existing health behavior disparities. The current study examines the impact of COVID social dista...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9634197/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36337260 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/22799036221132389 |
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author | Vazquez, Christian E Hess, Katherine E McBride, Megan J Cubbin, Catherine Bearman, Sarah Kate Calzada, Esther J |
author_facet | Vazquez, Christian E Hess, Katherine E McBride, Megan J Cubbin, Catherine Bearman, Sarah Kate Calzada, Esther J |
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description | BACKGROUND: In the United States, healthy behaviors, such as eating fruits/vegetables and exercise, are well below recommended levels, particularly for Hispanics. The COVID pandemic may have exacerbated existing health behavior disparities. The current study examines the impact of COVID social distancing measures on Hispanic parents’ eating and exercise behaviors, and how the impact may differ by socioeconomic status (SES) and distress levels. DESIGN AND METHODS: This cross-sectional logistic regression study utilized data from a sample of Hispanic parents in Texas (n = 237). COVID-related questions were collected in Summer 2020. Dependent variables included self-reported changes in exercise and eating behaviors due to the pandemic (i.e. got better or got worse). Primary independent variables included family-SES, neighborhood-SES, and distress due to COVID. RESULTS: More than half (60%) of parents reported that their eating and exercise behaviors worsened. Results showed a significant relationship between distress due to COVID and both dependent variables; changes in eating (OR = 1.38, 95% CI [1.20, 1.58]) and changes in exercise (OR = 1.28, 95% CI [1.11, 1.48]). There were no observed differences by SES. CONCLUSIONS: Results suggest distress due to COVID was associated with worsening of eating and exercise behaviors, regardless of SES. The direction of the relationship between distress and healthy eating and exercise behaviors requires further attention. |
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spelling | pubmed-96341972022-11-05 Impact of COVID social distancing measures on eating and exercise behaviors among a sample of Hispanic parents of young children in the United States Vazquez, Christian E Hess, Katherine E McBride, Megan J Cubbin, Catherine Bearman, Sarah Kate Calzada, Esther J J Public Health Res Original Article BACKGROUND: In the United States, healthy behaviors, such as eating fruits/vegetables and exercise, are well below recommended levels, particularly for Hispanics. The COVID pandemic may have exacerbated existing health behavior disparities. The current study examines the impact of COVID social distancing measures on Hispanic parents’ eating and exercise behaviors, and how the impact may differ by socioeconomic status (SES) and distress levels. DESIGN AND METHODS: This cross-sectional logistic regression study utilized data from a sample of Hispanic parents in Texas (n = 237). COVID-related questions were collected in Summer 2020. Dependent variables included self-reported changes in exercise and eating behaviors due to the pandemic (i.e. got better or got worse). Primary independent variables included family-SES, neighborhood-SES, and distress due to COVID. RESULTS: More than half (60%) of parents reported that their eating and exercise behaviors worsened. Results showed a significant relationship between distress due to COVID and both dependent variables; changes in eating (OR = 1.38, 95% CI [1.20, 1.58]) and changes in exercise (OR = 1.28, 95% CI [1.11, 1.48]). There were no observed differences by SES. CONCLUSIONS: Results suggest distress due to COVID was associated with worsening of eating and exercise behaviors, regardless of SES. The direction of the relationship between distress and healthy eating and exercise behaviors requires further attention. SAGE Publications 2022-11-02 /pmc/articles/PMC9634197/ /pubmed/36337260 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/22799036221132389 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Original Article Vazquez, Christian E Hess, Katherine E McBride, Megan J Cubbin, Catherine Bearman, Sarah Kate Calzada, Esther J Impact of COVID social distancing measures on eating and exercise behaviors among a sample of Hispanic parents of young children in the United States |
title | Impact of COVID social distancing measures on eating and exercise
behaviors among a sample of Hispanic parents of young children in the United
States |
title_full | Impact of COVID social distancing measures on eating and exercise
behaviors among a sample of Hispanic parents of young children in the United
States |
title_fullStr | Impact of COVID social distancing measures on eating and exercise
behaviors among a sample of Hispanic parents of young children in the United
States |
title_full_unstemmed | Impact of COVID social distancing measures on eating and exercise
behaviors among a sample of Hispanic parents of young children in the United
States |
title_short | Impact of COVID social distancing measures on eating and exercise
behaviors among a sample of Hispanic parents of young children in the United
States |
title_sort | impact of covid social distancing measures on eating and exercise
behaviors among a sample of hispanic parents of young children in the united
states |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9634197/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36337260 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/22799036221132389 |
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