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AuthorHoteit, Maha
AuthorMortada, Hussein
AuthorAl-Jawaldeh, Ayoub
AuthorMansour, Rania
AuthorYazbeck, Batoul
AuthorAlKhalaf, Majid
AuthorBookari, Khlood
AuthorTayyem, Reema
AuthorAl-Awwad, Narmeen J.
AuthorAl Sabbah, Haleama
AuthorCheikh Ismail, Leila
AuthorQasrawi, Radwan
AuthorAbu Seir, Rania
AuthorKamel, Iman
AuthorDashti, Somaia
AuthorAllehdan, Sabika
AuthorAl-Mannai, Mariam
AuthorBawadi, Hiba
AuthorWaly, Mostafa
Available date2022-02-27T10:16:47Z
Publication Date2022-02-15
Publication NameFrontiers in Nutrition
Identifierhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2022.813154
CitationHoteit M, Mortada H, Al-Jawaldeh A, Mansour R, Yazbeck B, AlKhalaf M, Bookari K, Tayyem R, Al-Awwad NJ, Al Sabbah H, Cheikh Ismail L, Qasrawi R, Abu Seir R, Kamel I, Dashti S, Allehdan S, Al-Mannai M, Bawadi H, Waly M and The Regional CORONA COOKING Survey Group (2022) Dietary Diversity in the Eastern Mediterranean Region Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Disparities, Challenges, and Mitigation Measures. Front. Nutr. 9:813154. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2022.813154
URIhttp://hdl.handle.net/10576/27467
AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the Eastern Mediterranean Region's food system's fragility posing severe challenges to maintaining healthy sustainable lifestyle. The aim of this cross-sectional study (N = 13,527 household's family members, mean age: 30.3 ±11.6, 80% women) is to examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on food consumption patterns and household's dietary diversity in 10 Eastern Mediterranean countries. A food frequency questionnaire was used to investigate the consumption patterns along with the calculation of the Food Consumption Score (FCS), a proxy indicator of dietary diversity. Data collected on cooking attitudes, shopping and food stock explore the community mitigation measures. In the overall population, before and during the pandemic, most food groups were consumed less or equal to 4 times per week. As evident from our findings and considering that the pandemic may be better, but it's not over, small to moderate changes in food consumption patterns in relatively short time periods can become permanent and lead to substantial poor dietary diversity over time. While it is a priority to mitigate the immediate impact, one area of great concern is the long-term effects of this pandemic on dietary patterns and dietary diversity in Eastern Mediterranean households. To conclude, the COVID-19 crisis revealed the region's unpreparedness to deal with a pandemic. While the aggressive containment strategy was essential for most countries to help prevent the spread, it came at a high nutritional cost, driving poor dietary diversity.
SponsorThis research was funded by the Research Foundation Flanders (G047518N) and Flanders Innovation and Entrepreneurship (HBC.2018.0397). These funding sources had no role in the design of the study, the analysis and interpretation of the data or the writing of, nor the decision to publish the manuscript.
Languageen
PublisherFrontiers Media
SubjectDietary Diversity
Eastern Mediterranean Region
COVID-19 Pandemic
Mitigation Measures
food consumption score
TitleDietary Diversity in the Eastern Mediterranean Region Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Disparities, Challenges, and Mitigation Measures
TypeArticle
Volume Number9
ESSN2296-861X
dc.accessType Open Access


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