Trajectories of eating behavior during COVID-19 lockdown: Longitudinal analyses of 22,374 adults.

ABSTRACT:

Background & aims

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the implementation of stay-at-home and lockdown measures. It is currently unknown if the experience of lockdown leads to long term changes in individual's eating behaviors. The objectives of this study were: i) to derive longitudinal trajectories of change in eating during UK lockdown, and ii) to identify risk factors associated with eating behavior trajectories.

Method

Data from 22,374 UK adults from the UCL COVID-19 Social study (a panel study collecting weekly data during the pandemic) were analyzed from 28th March to 29th May 2020. Latent Class Growth Analysis was used to derive trajectories of change in eating. These were then associated with prior socio-economic, health-related and psychological factors using multinomi

SUBMITTER: Herle M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7871880 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature