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The Side-Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Increased BMI z-Score in Children with Overweight and Obesity in a Personalised Lifestyle Intervention One Year after the Start of the Pandemic in The Netherlands
- Source :
- Nutrients; Volume 14; Issue 9; Pages: 1942, Nutrients, 14(9):1942. Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
- Publication Year :
- 2022
- Publisher :
- MDPI AG, 2022.
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Abstract
- Background: Early research showed weight gain in children during the COVID-19 pandemic. Objective: To compare changes in BMI z-score of children with overweight and obesity in a personalised lifestyle intervention before and during the pandemic. Methods: Changes in BMI z-score half a year (T6) and twelve months (T12) after the first lockdown were included for 71 children in the ‘2020 during COVID’ group and compared to 48 children in the ‘2019 before COVID’ group, using a marginal model for repeated measures (model 1). Model 2 corrected for lifestyle intervention characteristics, and model 3 corrected additionally for family characteristics. Results: The mean difference in BMI z-score change was significantly different at T12 (+0.07 in 2020 versus −0.09 in 2019, p = 0.022). Model 3 showed significant differences in BMI z-score change at both T6 (+0.15, p = 0.024) and T12 (+0.18, p = 0.016). This model also defined ‘having a mother with obesity’ (+0.13, p = 0.019) and the frequency of no-show consultations (+0.41 per missed consultation per month, p = 0.025) as related factors. Conclusions: Lifestyle intervention in children with overweight and obesity is less successful in decreasing BMI z-score during the COVID-pandemic. Identified risk factors for less success could contribute to identifying children with higher risks for, and possibly prevent, BMI z-score increase.
- Subjects :
- Pediatric Obesity
Netherlands/epidemiology
Overweight/epidemiology
Body Mass Index
BMI
Humans
Obesity
Child
Life Style
Pandemics
COVID-19/epidemiology
Netherlands
personalised lifestyle intervention
Nutrition and Dietetics
pandemic
CARDIOVASCULAR-DISEASE RISK
COVID-19
ASSOCIATION
Obesity/epidemiology
Overweight
childhood obesity
overweight
obesity
BODY-MASS INDEX
Pediatric Obesity/epidemiology
Communicable Disease Control
Food Science
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 20726643
- Volume :
- 14
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Nutrients
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c756aed7e80b4b79105416c4504b212b
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14091942