Evolution of Nutritional Habits Behaviour of Spanish Population Confined Through Social Media
Introduction: In Spain, on 14 March 2020, a state of alarm is declared to face the health emergency situation caused by the COVID-19 coronavirus, limiting the freedom of movement of people. The Spanish population is confined.Objective: With this situation, “NUTRITIONAL HEALTH IS NOT CONFINED” arises...
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| author | Miguel Mariscal-Arcas Sonia Delgado-Mingorance Borja Saenz de Buruaga Alba Blas-Diaz Jose Antonio Latorre Manuel Martinez-Bebia Nuria Gimenez-Blasi Javier Conde-Pipo Leticia Cantero Alejandro Lopez-Moro Maria Jose Jimenez-Casquet |
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| description | Introduction: In Spain, on 14 March 2020, a state of alarm is declared to face the health emergency situation caused by the COVID-19 coronavirus, limiting the freedom of movement of people. The Spanish population is confined.Objective: With this situation, “NUTRITIONAL HEALTH IS NOT CONFINED” arises a research project that seeks to promote nutritional education based on the pattern of the Mediterranean diet (MD) using new computer technologies. It is about providing the population with the information of general interest about the promotion of a healthy diet through social networks and analysing the impact of its dissemination, in the form of a longitudinal intervention study of the Spanish nutritional evolution during confinement, with a daily survey format, and it is intended to assess food consumption during the period of confinement. Materials and methods: In total, 936 participants were asked every day. Short publications were published every day based on the scientific evidence (FAO, WHO, AECOSAN) through social media such as Instagram, accompanied by a questionnaire of 11 questions (yes/no) where it was intended to assess the evolution of daily consumption.Results and Discussion: The diffusion through social media has allowed to have a greater reach of the population. We observed that mood throughout confinement generally improves. There are certain eating habits from the MD that are well established in the daily diet of our population, such as the consumption of fruits, vegetables, legumes, dairy products, and eggs. It seems that enjoying good health is a growing concern in pandemic situations, which is why inappropriate behaviours such as “snacking” between meals or the consumption of processed foods such as snacks, industrial pastries, soft drinks, and sweets are avoided, increasing the amount of healthy food such as meat and fish. This study opens up future avenues of research promoting MD and implements new cohort nutritional databases, especially about young adult people, who are adept at navigating digital spaces and therefore using social media. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-cf04bffec18e4fe9846dedba9bb0c06e2022-12-21T19:23:05ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Nutrition2296-861X2021-12-01810.3389/fnut.2021.794592794592Evolution of Nutritional Habits Behaviour of Spanish Population Confined Through Social MediaMiguel Mariscal-Arcas0Sonia Delgado-Mingorance1Borja Saenz de Buruaga2Alba Blas-Diaz3Jose Antonio Latorre4Manuel Martinez-Bebia5Nuria Gimenez-Blasi6Javier Conde-Pipo7Leticia Cantero8Alejandro Lopez-Moro9Maria Jose Jimenez-Casquet10Department of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Granada, Granada, SpainMaster of Food and Fit, University of Granada, Granada, SpainMaster of Food and Fit, University of Granada, Granada, SpainDepartment of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Granada, Granada, SpainDepartment of Food Technology, Nutrition and Food Science, University of Murcia, Murcia, SpainDepartment of Food Technology, Nutrition and Food Science, University of Murcia, Murcia, SpainDepartment of Nutrition and Dietetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Catholic University of Avila, Avila, SpainDepartment of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Granada, Granada, SpainDepartment of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Granada, Granada, SpainDepartment of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Granada, Granada, SpainDepartment of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Granada, Granada, SpainIntroduction: In Spain, on 14 March 2020, a state of alarm is declared to face the health emergency situation caused by the COVID-19 coronavirus, limiting the freedom of movement of people. The Spanish population is confined.Objective: With this situation, “NUTRITIONAL HEALTH IS NOT CONFINED” arises a research project that seeks to promote nutritional education based on the pattern of the Mediterranean diet (MD) using new computer technologies. It is about providing the population with the information of general interest about the promotion of a healthy diet through social networks and analysing the impact of its dissemination, in the form of a longitudinal intervention study of the Spanish nutritional evolution during confinement, with a daily survey format, and it is intended to assess food consumption during the period of confinement. Materials and methods: In total, 936 participants were asked every day. Short publications were published every day based on the scientific evidence (FAO, WHO, AECOSAN) through social media such as Instagram, accompanied by a questionnaire of 11 questions (yes/no) where it was intended to assess the evolution of daily consumption.Results and Discussion: The diffusion through social media has allowed to have a greater reach of the population. We observed that mood throughout confinement generally improves. There are certain eating habits from the MD that are well established in the daily diet of our population, such as the consumption of fruits, vegetables, legumes, dairy products, and eggs. It seems that enjoying good health is a growing concern in pandemic situations, which is why inappropriate behaviours such as “snacking” between meals or the consumption of processed foods such as snacks, industrial pastries, soft drinks, and sweets are avoided, increasing the amount of healthy food such as meat and fish. This study opens up future avenues of research promoting MD and implements new cohort nutritional databases, especially about young adult people, who are adept at navigating digital spaces and therefore using social media.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2021.794592/fullsocial mediadatabasenutrition methodologypopulation confineddiet |
| spellingShingle | Miguel Mariscal-Arcas Sonia Delgado-Mingorance Borja Saenz de Buruaga Alba Blas-Diaz Jose Antonio Latorre Manuel Martinez-Bebia Nuria Gimenez-Blasi Javier Conde-Pipo Leticia Cantero Alejandro Lopez-Moro Maria Jose Jimenez-Casquet Evolution of Nutritional Habits Behaviour of Spanish Population Confined Through Social Media Frontiers in Nutrition social media database nutrition methodology population confined diet |
| title | Evolution of Nutritional Habits Behaviour of Spanish Population Confined Through Social Media |
| title_full | Evolution of Nutritional Habits Behaviour of Spanish Population Confined Through Social Media |
| title_fullStr | Evolution of Nutritional Habits Behaviour of Spanish Population Confined Through Social Media |
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| title_short | Evolution of Nutritional Habits Behaviour of Spanish Population Confined Through Social Media |
| title_sort | evolution of nutritional habits behaviour of spanish population confined through social media |
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