Food-related worry and food bank use during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada: results from a nationally representative multi-round study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly one in five adults in Canada worried about having enough food to meet their household's needs. Relatedly, throughout the pandemic, public messaging repeatedly urged Canadians to support food charities, including food banks. Yet few studies have examined food bank usage during the pandemic or whether food charities were widely used by Canadians worried about food access.

Methods

This study draws on four rounds of nationally representative surveying conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic between May 2020 and December 2021 among adults 18 years and older living in Canada. Descriptive statistics were used to examine rates of food-related worry during all four survey rounds. Data from the fourth survey round, collected in December

SUBMITTER: Daly Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10478349 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature