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The impact of confinement on the quality of life changes related to eating habits at home in the era of Covid-19: Data Analysis survey of a Moroccan sample

. Oumaima Ibbat, Youssef EL RHAYAM, Mustapha Mouilly, Nabil Berrid, El mahjoub Aouane


Abstract

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus type 2 virus (SARS-CoV-2) first appeared in the city of Wuhan which exists in the Hubei region of China, and subsequently caused a new coronavirus disease (COVID -19) [1]. This type of disease is characterized by rapid spread around the world, causing a high number of deaths and posing major critical challenges for public health and clinical research worldwide. The epidemic of Covid-19 was announced by the World Health Organization (WHO) indicate that this type of disease is considered as a public health emergency. According to statistics, there are more than 18 million confirmed cases of coronavirus worldwide, including 702,903 deaths [2]. In our country Morocco, there are 28,500 confirmed cases and 345 deaths. Forecasts of the cumulative number of confirmed cases, cured, assets and deaths have been recently provided. [3] Furthermore, we evaluated the behavior of the virus during the confinement through questions related to lifestyle (eating) during confinement at home. These data are intended to help the Moroccan authorities and other countries to better understand the impact of this crisis on Moroccan citizens and therefore to develop adequate protocols to manage post-confiscation or a possible future crisis. The data we collected from this study during the period of home confinement from a sample contains 142 people describing their eating behavior. This study aims to discover the impact of confinement on the change in habits of confined people (sleep, diet, physical activity, mental health and weight variation). The information discussed in our article was collected using a questionnaire made available by social networks. 142 confined is the number of people who were able to answer our questionnaire, the average age is 25 to 40 years. The results show a high consumption houses meals, weakness of physical activity, sleep disturbance and deterioration of mental health causing subsequently a change in the weight of people confined.

 

Keywords: COVID-19 pandemic, eating habits, physical activity, weight, Morocco.

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