Eating habits of children and adolescents during the COVID-19 era: A systematic review.

ABSTRACT: The COVID19 pandemic has affected all aspects of people's lives. Eating habit plays a crucial role in children and adolescents' physical and mental development and the impacts might last until adulthood. This systematic review aimed to summarize a comprehensive and updated overview of eating habits changes due to COVID19 confinements among children and adolescents. A systematic literature search was performed in three databases for all the English studies published from the start of the confinements until April 2022. Two researchers screened articles independently and included observational studies which evaluated children's and adolescents' eating habits before and during confinements. The quality of the included studies was assessed by Newcastle-Ottawa Quality Assessment checklists for c

SUBMITTER: Pourghazi F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9623566 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature