Coronavirus disease 2019, food security and maternal mental health in Ceará, Brazil: a repeated cross-sectional survey

Rocha, Hermano Alexandre Lima; Sudfeld, Christopher R.; Leite, Álvaro Jorge Madeiro; Rocha, Sabrina Gabrielle Maia Oliveira; Machado, Márcia Maria Tavares; Campos, Jocileide Sales; Silva, Anamaria C. e; Correia, Luciano Lima

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“…The same rate was 45%, according to Kundu et al [29], while Hamadani et al [30] reported a 43% increase in Bangladesh. In Brazil, according to Rocha et al [31], the prevalence of food insecurity among mothers was 15% higher between July and September 2020 than it was in 2017.…”

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“…In some cases, in addition to the partial or total income loss, households even had to face rising food prices [20,38]. In order to mitigate income-loss-related food insecurity of households, the most common strategy was launching food or financial benefit programs, mostly by governmental organizations [31,33,39,40], but there were examples of households taking loans or borrowing cash from formal or informal sources [38,39]. Ibrahim and Othman provided information from Malaysia about a third kind of strategy, where 32% of the respondents started to pick vegetables from the area around their house and 27% conducted online business [38].…”

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Food Security and COVID-19: A Systematic Review of the First-Year Experience

Éliás

Jámbor

2021

Sustainability

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For decades, global food security has not been able to address the structural problem of economic access to food, resulting in a recent increase in the number of undernourished people from 2014. In addition, the FAO estimates that the number of undernourished people drastically increased by 82–132 million people in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. To alleviate this dramatic growth in food insecurity, it is necessary to understand the nature of the increase in the number of malnourished during the pandemic. In order to address this, we gathered and synthesized food-security-related empirical results from the first year of the pandemic in a systematic review. The vast majority (78%) of the 51 included articles reported household food insecurity has increased (access, utilization) and/or disruption to food production (availability) was a result of households having persistently low income and not having an adequate amount of savings. These households could not afford the same quality and/or quantity of food, and a demand shortfall immediately appeared on the producer side. Producers thus had to deal not only with the direct consequences of government measures (disruption in labor flow, lack of demand of the catering sector, etc.) but also with a decline in consumption from low-income households. We conclude that the factor that most negatively affects food security during the COVID-19 pandemic is the same as the deepest structural problem of global food security: low income. Therefore, we argue that there is no need for new global food security objectives, but there is a need for an even stronger emphasis on poverty reduction and raising the wages of low-income households. This structural adjustment is the most fundamental step to recover from the COVID-19 food crises, and to avoid possible future food security crises.

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Food Security and COVID-19: A Systematic Review of the First-Year Experience

Éliás

Jámbor

2021

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“…Furthermore, evidence indicates that the pandemic has increased the proportion of households with moderate or severe food insecurity in LMICs, mainly through loss of income. Household food insecurity can potentially lead to increases in different forms of malnutrition (Rocha et al, 2021 ), such as iron or other micronutrient deficiencies, as well as overweight and obesity or other nutrition‐related noncommunicable diseases, which in turn increases the risk of COVID‐19 morbidity and mortality (Gao et al, 2021 ).…”

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Diet and food insecurity among mothers, infants, and young children in Peru before and during COVID‐19: A panel survey

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Pareja

Creed‐Kanashiro

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Maternal & Child Nutrition

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The COVID‐19 pandemic may impact diet and nutrition through increased household food insecurity, lack of access to health services, and poorer quality diets. The primary aim of this study is to assess the impact of the pandemic on dietary outcomes of mothers and their infants and young children (IYC) in low‐income urban areas of Peru. We conducted a panel study, with one survey prepandemic ( n = 244) and one survey 9 months after the onset of COVID‐19 ( n = 254). We assessed breastfeeding and complementary feeding indicators and maternal dietary diversity in both surveys. During COVID‐19, we assessed household food insecurity experience and economic impacts of the pandemic on livelihoods; receipt of financial or food assistance, and uptake of health services. Almost all respondents (98.0%) reported adverse economic impacts due to the pandemic and 46.9% of households were at risk of moderate or severe household food insecurity. The proportion of households receiving government food assistance nearly doubled between the two surveys (36.5%–59.5%). Dietary indicators, however, did not worsen in mothers or IYC. Positive changes included an increase in exclusive breastfeeding <6 months (24.2%–39.0%, p < 0.008) and a decrease in sweet food consumption by IYC (33.1%–18.1%, p = 0.001) and mothers (34.0%–14.6%, p < 0.001). The prevalence of sugar‐sweetened beverage consumption remained high in both mothers (97%) and IYC (78%). In sum, we found dietary indicators had not significantly worsened 9 months into the COVID‐19 pandemic. However, several indicators remain suboptimal and should be targeted in future interventions.

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“…In Fortaleza, we showed that over three-quarters of families had their income reduced during the pandemic, which could have resulted in dietary restrictions. Indeed, food insecurity in the state of Ceará increased by 15% during the COVID-19 pandemic (Rocha et al, 2021). Therefore, food insecurity may have overcome the eventual fear of disease transmission through human milk and influenced participants to postpone the introduction of solid foods into their infant’s diet.…”

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Breastfeeding Practices Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Fortaleza, Northeastern Brazil

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Background: Physical distancing associated with the COVID-19 pandemic may lead to suboptimal maternal mental health, social support after birth, and infant feeding practices. Research Aims: To compare breastfeeding prevalence in participants who were pregnant at a time when strict physical distancing measures were imposed in Fortaleza, the capital of Ceará state, Brazil, with the pre-pandemic breastfeeding levels, and to assess the association of breastfeeding prevalence with maternal common mental disorders, and sociodemographic and health predictors. Method: A cross-sectional prospective two-group comparison design using two population-based surveys was carried out in Fortaleza before and after the pandemic. Participants ( n = 351) who had a live birth in Fortaleza in July or August 2020, and participants ( n = 222) who had a child younger than 12 months in 2017 were surveyed. Crude and adjusted multinomial logistic regressions with robust variance were used to estimate risk ratios and 95% confidence intervals (CI). Results: Similar prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding were observed in 2021 (8.1%) and 2017 (8.5%; p = .790). An increase in predominant (2.2% vs. 13.4%; p < .001) and a decrease in complementary breastfeeding (64.0% vs. 48.4%; p = .037) was observed in 2021, compared to 2017. The prevalence of maternal common mental disorders also increased in 2021 (17.6% vs. 32.5%, p < .001). No statistically significant associations were found between breastfeeding patterns, maternal common mental disorders, and other predictors in 2017 or 2021. Conclusions: Participants who delivered during the COVID-19 pandemic delayed solid foods introduction and breastfed predominantly longer than participants during the pre-pandemic period. While common mental disorders significantly increased, they were not associated with differences in breastfeeding.

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Coronavirus disease 2019, food security and maternal mental health in Ceará, Brazil: a repeated cross-sectional survey

Cited by 15 publications

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Food Security and COVID-19: A Systematic Review of the First-Year Experience

Food Security and COVID-19: A Systematic Review of the First-Year Experience

Diet and food insecurity among mothers, infants, and young children in Peru before and during COVID‐19: A panel survey

Breastfeeding Practices Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Fortaleza, Northeastern Brazil

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