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Changes in Diet, Physical Activity, Alcohol Consumption, and Tobacco Use in Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review.
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- Post-Pandemic vs. Pandemic Food Behaviors in a National Sample of Polish Adolescents: The PLACE-19 Study.Nutrients · 2026Article
- Leisure-Time Physical Activity, Sleep, and Self-Perception of Health During the COVID-19 Lockdown in Québec.Epidemiologia (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Eating Behavior and Physical Activity Changes Among Adult Mexican Women After the COVID-19 Pandemic.American journal of lifestyle medicine · 2026Article
- Risk factors for Problematic Internet Use (PIU) among Polish students: the role of loneliness, depression, and health behaviours in a predictive analysis.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- Exploring Physical Activity Among Mexican American Immigrants in New York City Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Two-Wave Panel, Mixed-Method Analysis.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- Post-COVID-19 social determinants of health and quality of life: a longitudinal study.Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da U S P · 2026Article
- Clustering of adolescents' health behaviors before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: examining transitions and the role of demographics and parental health behaviors.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on trends in health conditions associated with alcohol among patients with hypertension in Sweden.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Changes in diabetes screening and exercise during the COVID-19 pandemic in adults with prediabetes.Diabetes research and clinical practice · 2025Article
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- Trends in Physical Activity Research on Tobacco and/or Alcohol: A Bibliometric Analysis.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- A randomized controlled trial of Native CHOICES: Impact on alcohol-exposed pregnancy risk reduction among American Indian and Alaska Native women.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2025Article
- Cancer-related health behaviors during the COVID 19 pandemic in geographically diverse samples across the US.BMC cancer · 2025Article
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- In-hospital nudging intervention increases patients' healthy dietary choices: a quasi-experimental study.BMJ nutrition, prevention & health · 2025Article
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- Impact of the pandemic on leisure physical activity and alcohol consumption.BMC public health · 2024Article
- The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Incidence and Short-Term Survival for Common Solid Tumours in the United Kingdom: A Cohort Analysis.Clinical epidemiology · 2024Article
- The Impact of COVID-19 Health and Safety Measures on the Self-Reported Exercise Behaviors and Mental Health of College Students.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic changed various lifestyle habits worldwide due to the prevention measures implemented in each country, these changes may affect or benefit people's health. We aimed to systematically review changes in diet, physical activity (PA), alcohol consumption, and tobacco use habits during the COVID-19 pandemic in adults. Two databases: PubMed and ScienceDirect, were used for this systematic review. The research was limited to open-access, peer-reviewed original articles published in English, French, or Spanish from January 2020 to December 2022 and investigated diet, PA, alcohol consumption, and tobacco use habits before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in adults. Excluded studies were review studies, intervention studies with a sample size of fewer than 30 participants, and poor-quality articles. This review followed PRISMA 2020 guidelines (PROSPERO: CRD42023406524), whereas to assess the quality of the studies, we used the quality assessment tools developed by the BSA Medical Sociology Group for cross-sectional studies and the QATSO for the longitudinal studies. Thirty-two studies were included. Some studies reported changes to promote healthy lifestyles; 13 out of 15 articles reported an increase in healthy diet consumption habits, 5 out of 7 studies reported a decrease in alcohol consumption, and 2 out of 3 studies reported a decrease in tobacco use. On the other hand, the other studies reported changes to promote unhealthy lifestyles: 9 out of 15, and 2 out of 7 studies reported an increase in unhealthy diet and alcohol consumption habits respectively, 25 out of 25 reported a decrease in physical activity, and 13 out of 13 reported an increase in sedentary behavior. During the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been changes to promote a healthy and unhealthy lifestyle; the latter can affect people's health. Therefore, effective responses are needed to mitigate the consequences.
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