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Dietary patterns and dietary recommendations achievement from Latin American college students during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown
Fecha
2022Registro en:
Murillo, A.G., et al. Dietary patterns and dietary recommendations achievement from Latin American college students during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown [en línea]. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. 2022, 6 doi:10.3389/fsufs.2022.836299 Disponible en:
2571-581X
10.3389/fsufs.2022.836299
Autor
Murillo, Ana Gabriela
Gómez, Georgina
Durán Agüero, Samuel
Parra Soto, Solange Liliana
Araneda, Jacqueline
Morales, Gladys
Ríos Castillo, Israel
Carpio Arias, Valeria
Cavagnari, Brian M.
Nava González, Edna J.
Bejarano Roncancio, Jhon J.
Núñez Martínez, Beatriz
Cordón Arrivillaga, Karla
Meza Miranda, Eliana Romina
Mauricio Alza, Saby
Landaeta Díaz, Leslie
Institución
Resumen
Abstract: This study aimed to compare the diet quality of different dietary patterns among college
students from Latin American countries, including vegetarians, vegans, and omnivores
during the COVID-19 pandemic. A cross-sectional, observational, multicenter study
was conducted including a non- probabilistic sample of university students from 10
countries. University students were invited to participate in the study through social
network platforms. Participants were self-reported to have followed a specific dietary
pattern; either the Prudent diet, Western diet, Ovo-dairy-vegetarian diet, Fish-vegetarian
diet, Strict vegetarian diet (vegan) or other. The last three patterns (vegetarians and
vegans) were grouped as following a plant-based diet. A self-assessment survey was
used to evaluate healthy eating habits using a questionnaire with values between 1 (do
not consume) and 5 (consume) for a total of 9–45 points (higher values represent better
eating habits). Unhealthy habits were assessed with nine questions. A total of 4,809
students filled out the questionnaire, and the majority of them were females (73.7%). A high percentage have been in lockdown for more than 5 months and were in lockdown
when the survey was released. 74.3% were self-reported to follow a prudent diet, while
11.4% reported following a western dietary pattern and 8.8% a plant-based diet. When
compliance with healthy and unhealthy dietary habits was analyzed, although all groups
had low compliance, the plant-based diet group (56.09 ±6.11) performed better than the
Western diet group (48.03 ± 5.99). The total diet quality score was significantly higher for
plant-based diet followers, who also tended to better achieve the recommendations than
omnivorous students, especially the ones following a western diet. These results present
evidence that young adults such as college-aged students have unhealthy dietary habits.
However, the ones who follow a plant-based diet such as vegetarians and vegans exhibit
better scores and healthier dietary conducts.