The Relationship of Food Consumption Patterns to Adult Obesity Status and BMI Changes in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study
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- consumption patterns; obesity; changes in BMI; COVID-19 pandemic
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In Indonesia, the trend of obesity continues to increase consistently, even though the government has targeted to maintain the prevalence of obesity. Obesity is a comorbidity of COVID-19. During the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a change in diet and weight gain. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between food consumption patterns to adult obesity and changes in BMI during the COVID-19 pandemic Longitudinal study on 814 cases of obese adults aged 31 years and older who were part of the research subject “The Bogor Cohort Study of Non-Communicable Disease Risk Factors”. The sample is obese cases (BMI 25 and over) which has complete data on BMI in 2019, 2020, and 2021 and consumption data in 2021, while the data is excluded if there is an outlier. The dependent variable is obesity status which is categorized into 3 (obese I, II, and III) and changes in BMI which is the difference between BMI 2020 and BMI in 2019 which is categorized into 3, namely stable, decreasing, increasing based on data distribution and determining cut off based on delta mean BMI changes. The independent variables included consumption patterns of 8 food groups (carbohydrates, meat, fish, eggs, nuts, fruit vegetables, milk, fried snacks), gender, and age. Data were analyzed by the Chi-Square test with a significance of p < 0.05. During the COVID-19 pandemic in the city of Bogor (2020–2021), the proportion of obese I was 24.3 percent and BMI increased by 14.2%; obese II was 33.9% and BMI increased by 32.8%, while the proportion of obese III was 41.8% and BMI increased by 53% and significantly according to gender and age. Food consumption which was significantly (p < 0.05) related to obesity status was carbohydrate consumption ≥ 22 times/week (p = 0.006) and meat consumption > 4 times/week (p = 0.009). As for the frequency of consumption pattern which was significantly related to changes in BMI, carbohydrate consumption (p = 0.006) and meat consumption was > 4 times/week (p = 0.048). The consumption of carbohydrates and meat was associated with obesity status and changes in BMI of obese subjects during the pandemic. An effective educational strategy is needed to provide information on good eating patterns in people who are already obese. In addition, it needs to be accompanied by intensifying health promotion related to physical activity.
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TY - CONF AU - Woro Riyadina AU - Elisa D. Julianti AU - Prisca P. Arfines AU - Nuzuliyati Nurhidayati AU - Irlina R. Irawan AU - Mohamad Samsudin PY - 2023 DA - 2023/03/01 TI - The Relationship of Food Consumption Patterns to Adult Obesity Status and BMI Changes in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study BT - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference for Health Research – BRIN (ICHR 2022) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 630 EP - 641 SN - 2468-5739 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-112-8_58 DO - 10.2991/978-94-6463-112-8_58 ID - Riyadina2023 ER -