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Challenges in Feeding Children Posed by the COVID-19 Pandemic: a Systematic Review of Changes in Dietary Intake Combined with a Dietitian's Perspective.
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- Dietary Changes of Youth during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review.The Journal of nutrition · 2024Pooled it
- The COVID-19 pandemic and food insecurity in households with children: A systematic review.PloS one · 2024Pooled it
- Eating Behaviour Changes during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review of Longitudinal Studies.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- Access to dental services for children: a scoping review on the impact of COVID-19 and implications for future models of care.BMJ open · 2025Article
- Longitudinal study of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on diet and physical activity among Latinos of Mexican ancestry.Journal of translational medicine · 2024Article
- Changes in breakfast and water consumption among adolescents in Canada: examining the impact of COVID-19 in worsening inequity.BMC nutrition · 2024Article
- Ultra-Processed Food vs. Fruit and Vegetable Consumption before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic among Greek and Swedish Students.Nutrients · 2023Article
- Unintended Consequences of COVID-19 Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs) for Population Health and Health Inequalities.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Review
- Opportunities for understanding the COVID-19 pandemic and child health in the United States: the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) program.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2023Article
- Changes in Adults' Eating Behaviors During the Initial Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Narrative Review.Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics · 2023Review
- Adolescents' food intake changes during the COVID-19 pandemic: The moderating role of pre-pandemic susceptibility, COVID-19 related stressors, and the social food context.The European journal of developmental psychology · 2023Article
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- Reducing Liver Cancer Risk through Dietary Change: Positive Results from a Community-Based Educational Initiative in Three Racial/Ethnic Groups.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Health Behavior Changes during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Analysis among Children.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- COVID-19 and health in children and adolescents in the US: A narrative systematic review.Psychology in the schools · 2022Article
- [A cohort-comparison of food intake, lifestyle and social-emotional health of adolescents before and during the corona crisis].TSG : tijdschrift voor gezondheidswetenschappen · 2022Article
- How did lockdown and social distancing policies change the eating habits of diabetic patients during the COVID-19 pandemic? A systematic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
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Abstract
purpose of reviewTo examine the evidence that the dietary quality of children changed between the period preceding the COVID-19 pandemic and the first year during the pandemic. RECENT
findingsA systematic review of the evidence for dietary changes occurring as a result of the pandemic-related restrictions, in Part I of this article, yielded 38 original research articles. These articles had conflicting results, some describing improvements in overall quality and some describing deteriorations. As a whole the studies were characterized by a low study quality, and children were poorly represented. Taken together, these studies do not provide enough evidence to draw conclusions about whether dietary habits changed or not as a result of the pandemic. However, in a wider, narrative review of the psychosocial changes occurring as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the known associations of these factors with a dietary intake in Part II, we conclude that there is a reason to expect that the dietary quality of children might have been adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. One the one hand, the literature fails to provide conclusive evidence on changes in the dietary quality of children resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. On the other hand, the broader literature supports the hypothesis that children's dietary quality will have declined during the pandemic. Taken together, we urgently need more high-quality research on children's changes in dietary intake occurring over the pandemic. This will provide important information on whether any potential long-term consequences of such changes, if they exist, need to be examined and ameliorated.
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