Weight-related lifestyle behaviours and the COVID-19 crisis: An online survey study of UK adults during social lockdown.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 crisis is likely to have had wide-ranging consequences on lifestyle behaviours and may have affected weight management. The objective of the present study was to examine perceptions of how weight-related lifestyle changed in social lockdown among UK adults compared with before the emergence of the COVID-19 crisis.

Methods

As part of an online cross-sectional survey conducted during social lockdown in the United Kingdom, 723 UK adults reported on the extent to which their eating (healthiness of diet, frequency of bingeing on food), physical activity, sleep and alcohol consumption had changed since the emergence of the COVID-19 crisis and completed measures of current psychological well-being.

Results

Although both improvements and declines in we

SUBMITTER: Robinson E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7746963 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature