Assessment of the COVID-19 virus outbreak on dietary patterns, physical activity, and lifestyle behaviours: a survey among adult European citizens

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60460709:41340/23:95200

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1108/BFJ-09-2022-0781" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1108/BFJ-09-2022-0781</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/BFJ-09-2022-0781" target="_blank" >10.1108/BFJ-09-2022-0781</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Assessment of the COVID-19 virus outbreak on dietary patterns, physical activity, and lifestyle behaviours: a survey among adult European citizens

Original language description

PurposeThis study examined the relationship between adult respondents' COVID-19 risk perception and its impact on changes in eating habits, physical activity, alcohol consumption, and smoking.Design/methodology/approachA cross-sectional online questionnaire was used to collect data during the first wave of the pandemic, in the European spring and summer of 2020. Kruskal-Wallis and Pearson chi-squared tests were used to determine the associations between the consumers' COVID-19 risk perception and the respondents' country of origin. The respondents were primarily university employees and students from four European countries (the Czech Republic, France, the United Kingdom, and Italy).FindingsThe study showed significant changes in lifestyle behaviours of the respondents during the COVID-19 pandemic compared with the pre-outbreak period. Approximately half of all respondents reported a decrease in alcohol consumption, smoking, and physical activity, while eating habits among European consumers showed trends towards both healthier and less healthy dietary patterns. The most significant changes were recorded in reducing alcohol consumption, smoking, and physical activity among almost half of the respondents. Positive COVID-19 test experience, age, and country of the respondents had a negative influence, whereas healthy food consumption and alcohol consumption had a positive influence on the COVID-19 related risk perception.Originality/valueThe fear of the COVID-19 outbreak together with the restrictions imposed by national governments in response to the pandemic fundamentally affected the respondents' lifestyles. Understanding these changes can help establish interventions to alleviate the adoption of negative lifestyles and attitudes in subsequent waves of the COVID-19 pandemic or other similar situations.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10618 - Ecology

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

British Food Journal

ISSN

0007-070X

e-ISSN

0007-070X

Volume of the periodical

125

Issue of the periodical within the volume

10

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

3698-3716

UT code for WoS article

001023153300001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85164989438