{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Cummings JR"],"funding":["Intramural NIH HHS","NICHD NIH HHS","National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases","NIDDK NIH HHS","National Institute of Child Health and Human Development"],"pagination":["105163"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC8058253"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["162"],"pubmed_abstract":["The coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic has created widespread stress. Since many people cope with stress by eating, the current study investigated whether eating behaviors shifted among U.S. adults after the emergence of the pandemic. Data from national, crowdsourced surveys conducted on March 31st, 2020 and February 13th, 2019 were compared. Average levels of eating to cope and food addiction symptoms did not appear to shift during the early stages of the pandemic; however, U.S. adults ate about 14% more added sugars. Moreover, greater stress in response to the pandemic was associated with greater eating to cope, added sugars intake, food addiction symptoms, drinking to cope, and drinking frequency. These associations differed by the presence of state-level stay-at-home orders, perceived vulnerability to disease, age, U.S. political party affiliation, and gender. Although eating behaviors did not appear to majorly shift during the early stages of the pandemic, stress from the pandemic may intensify some maladaptive coping tendencies among U.S. adults."],"journal":["Appetite"],"pubmed_title":["COVID-19 stress and eating and drinking behaviors in the United States during the early stages of the pandemic."],"pmcid":["PMC8058253"],"funding_grant_id":["P30 DK089503","T32 HD079350","K01 DK119166","Z99 HD999999"],"pubmed_authors":["Gearhardt AN","Ackerman JM","Cummings JR","Wolfson JA"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"COVID-19 stress and eating and drinking behaviors in the United States during the early stages of the pandemic.","description":"The coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic has created widespread stress. Since many people cope with stress by eating, the current study investigated whether eating behaviors shifted among U.S. adults after the emergence of the pandemic. Data from national, crowdsourced surveys conducted on March 31st, 2020 and February 13th, 2019 were compared. Average levels of eating to cope and food addiction symptoms did not appear to shift during the early stages of the pandemic; however, U.S. adults ate about 14% more added sugars. Moreover, greater stress in response to the pandemic was associated with greater eating to cope, added sugars intake, food addiction symptoms, drinking to cope, and drinking frequency. These associations differed by the presence of state-level stay-at-home orders, perceived vulnerability to disease, age, U.S. political party affiliation, and gender. Although eating behaviors did not appear to majorly shift during the early stages of the pandemic, stress from the pandemic may intensify some maladaptive coping tendencies among U.S. adults.","dates":{"release":"2021-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2021 Jul","modification":"2025-04-04T02:37:54.878Z","creation":"2025-04-04T02:37:54.878Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC8058253","cross_references":{"pubmed":["33587985"],"doi":["10.1016/j.appet.2021.105163"]}}