Income precarity and child and parent weight change during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional analysis of the Ontario Parent Survey.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To describe child and parent weight change during the pandemic, overall and by income precarity.

Design

A cross-sectional online survey was conducted.

Setting

Caregivers of children 0-17 years of age living in Ontario, Canada, during the COVID-19 pandemic from May 2021 to July 2021.

Participants

A convenience sample of parents (n=9099) with children (n=9667) living in Ontario were identified through crowdsourcing.

Primary outcome measure

Parents recalled, for themselves and their child, whether they lost weight, gained weight or remained the same over the past year. OR and 95% CI were estimated using multinomial logistic regression for the association between income precarity variables and weight loss or gain, adjusted for age, gender and ethn

SUBMITTER: Anderson LN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9742846 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature