Author | Ribeiro-Alves, Marcelo | |
Author | Costa, Giovanna Lucieri | |
Author | Mota, Jurema Corrêa da | |
Author | Cardoso, Taiane de Azevedo | |
Author | Cerezer, Keila | |
Author | Martini, Thais | |
Author | Sousa, Marina Ururahy Soriano de | |
Author | Bastos, Francisco Inácio Pinkusfeld Monteiro | |
Author | Balanzá-Martínez, Vicent | |
Author | Kapczinski, Flavio | |
Author | De Boni, Raquel B. | |
Access date | 2020-04-14T18:56:33Z | |
Available date | 2020-04-14T18:56:33Z | |
Document date | 2023 | |
Citation | RIBEIRO-ALVES, Marcelo et al. Lifestyle changes during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil: results from three consecutive cross-sectional web surveys. BMJ Open, v. 13, n. 7, p. 1-8, July 2023. | en_US |
ISSN | 2044-6055 | |
URI | https://www.arca.fiocruz.br/handle/icict/40755 | |
Description | Ethics approval: The web surveys were approved by the Comissão Nacional de Ética em Pesquisa (CONEP, Brazil—3.968.686) and the Ethics Committee from Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (CAAE-31520620.0.1001.5327). As a direct benefit, participants found information on lifestyle and reliable websites and telephone numbers to find information regarding COVID-19. Participants read the consent form and confirmed their interest in participating in the first screen of the online questionnaire. | en_US |
Sponsorship | VB-M acknowledges the national grant PI16/01770 from the Instituto de Salud Carlos III, ISCIII (The PROBILIFE study). TdAC acknowledges her postdoctoral fellowship from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. FK acknowledges funding from the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (INCT 2014, 2014/50891-1), CNPq (INCT 465458/2014-9) and the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul (47177.584.16785.16042020). RBDB acknowledges the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (E-26/203.154/2017) and the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq #31253/2020-4 and #400197/2022-7). Funding agencies had no role on study design, data collection, analysis and interpretation or writing the manuscript. | en_US |
Language | eng | en_US |
Publisher | BMJ Publishing Group Ltd | en_US |
Rights | open access | en_US |
Title | Lifestyle changes during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil: results from three consecutive cross-sectional web surveys | en_US |
Type | Article | en_US |
DOI | 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-070328 | |
Abstract | Objective: The importance of a healthy lifestyle in preventing morbidity and mortality is well-established. The COVID-19 pandemic brought about significant lifestyle changes globally, but the extent of these changes in the Brazilian population remains unclear. The objective of this study was to evaluate changes in lifestyle among the Brazilian general population during the first year of the pandemic. Design: Three consecutive anonymous web surveys were carried out: survey 1 (S1)-April 2020, S2-August 2020 and S3-January 2021. Setting: Brazil. Participants: The study included 19 257 (S1), 1590 (S2) and 859 (S3) participants from the general population, who were ≥18 years, of both sexes, with access to the internet, self-reporting living in Brazil and who agreed to participate after reading the informed consent. Primary outcome: Lifestyle changes were assessed using the Short Multidimensional Instrument for Lifestyle Evaluation-Confinement (SMILE-C). The SMILE-C assesses lifestyle across multiple domains including diet, substance use, physical activity, stress management, restorative sleep, social support and environmental exposures. We used a combination of bootstrapping and linear fixed-effect modelling to estimate pairwise mean differences of SMILE-C scores overall and by domain between surveys. Results: In all the surveys, participants were mostly women and with a high education level. Mean SMILE-C scores were 186.4 (S1), 187.4 (S2) and 190.5 (S3), indicating a better lifestyle in S3 as compared with S1. The pairwise mean differences of the overall SMILE-C scores were statistically significant (p<0.001). We also observed a better lifestyle over time in all domains except for diet and social support. Conclusions: Our findings indicate that individuals from a large middle-income country, such as Brazil, struggled to restore diet and social relationships after 1 year of the pandemic. These findings have implications for monitoring the long-term consequences of the pandemic, as well as future pandemics. | en_US |
Affilliation | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Departamento de Psiquiatria. Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil / Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre. Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. | |
Affilliation | Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto de Comunicação e Informação Científica e Tecnológica em Saúde. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. | |
Affilliation | Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas. Laboratório de Pesquisa Clínica em DST-AIDS. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. | en_US |
Affilliation | Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Escola de Medicina e Cirurgia. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. | en_US |
Affilliation | Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto de Comunicação e Informação Científica e Tecnológica em Saúde. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. | en_US |
Affilliation | McMaster University. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences. Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. | en_US |
Affilliation | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Departamento de Psiquiatria. Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. | en_US |
Affilliation | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Departamento de Psiquiatria. Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. | en_US |
Affilliation | Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Escola de Medicina e Cirurgia. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. | en_US |
Affilliation | Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto de Comunicação e Informação Científica e Tecnológica em Saúde. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. | en_US |
Affilliation | Universitat de València. Departament de Medicina. INCLIVA, CIBERSAM, València, Spain. | en_US |
Subject | COVID-19 | en_US |
Subject | Latin America | en_US |
Subject | Preventive medicine | en_US |
Subject | Public health | en_US |
Subject | Risk factors. | en_US |