This study found that during the period of social restriction participants reported a decrease in practicing physical activity and an increase in time spent using computers or tablets or watching TV, intake of ultra-processed foods, number of cigarettes smoked and alcoholic beverage consumption.

Author

Deborah Carvalho Malta (email: dcmalta@uol.com.br), Célia Landmann Szwarcwald, Marilisa Berti de Azevedo Barros, Crizian Saar Gomes, Ísis Eloah Machado, Paulo Roberto Borges de Souza Júnior, Dalia Elena Romero, Margareth Guimaraes Lima, Giseli Nogueira Damacena, Maria de Fátima Pina, Maria Imaculada de Fátima Freitas, André Oliveira Werneck, Danilo Rodrigues Pereira da Silva, Luiz Otávio Azevedo and Renata Gracie

Citation

Malta, D., Szwarcwald, C., Barros, M., Gomes, C., Machado, Í., Souza Júnior, P., Romero, D., Lima, M., Damacena, G., Pina, M., Freitas, M., Werneck, A., Silva, D., Azevedo, L. and Gracie, R., 2020. A pandemia da COVID-19 e as mudanças no estilo de vida dos brasileiros adultos: um estudo transversal, 2020. Epidemiologia e Serviços de Saúde, 29(4).

Source
Epidemiologia e Serviços de Saúde
Release date
13/07/2020

The COVID-19 Pandemic and Changes in Adult Brazilian Lifestyles: A Cross-Sectional Study, 2020

Abstract

Objective

To describe lifestyle changes with regard to consumption of tobacco and alcohol, food intake and physical activity, in the period of social restriction resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods

This is a cross-sectional study conducted in Brazil with data from the ConVid online health behavior survey. The data were collected via an online questionnaire answered by the survey participants. Post-stratification procedures were used to calculate prevalence rates and 95% confidence intervals.

Results

45,161 individuals aged 18 years or more participated. During the period of social restriction participants reported a decrease in practicing physical activity and an increase in time spent using computers or tablets or watching TV, intake of ultra-processed foods, number of cigarettes smoked and alcoholic beverage consumption. Differences were observed according to sex and age group.

Conclusion

The results indicate a worsening of lifestyles and an increase in health risk behaviors.

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