Faculty of Business Administration, Gebze Technical University, Kocaeli, Turkey.
Albeka Consulting, Istanbul, Turkey.
Appetite. 2021 Nov 1;166:105430. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2021.105430. Epub 2021 Jun 3.
The Covid-19 pandemic involving mass quarantines and stay at home orders in many nations has affected consumer behaviour including food intake. Despite the seriousness of the situation, spending more time at home may have had some unintended consequences for consumers. The aim of this study was to investigate the consequences of the current adverse circumstances on nutrition, within the framework of changes in attitude toward healthy eating, health consciousness, fear, and social influence of family, peers, and social media interactions. For this purpose, 732 participants, the majority of whom were female, aged between 26 and 55 years with university degrees, were surveyed online. Data were analyzed using a structural equation modeling approach. Based on results, family influence and social media influence were found to have positive effects on fear of Covid-19 and greater health consciousness. The effect of peer influence was only observed for health consciousness, not fear of Covid-19. Health consciousness and Covid-19 fears positively affected attitude and health consciousness, and attitude was positively related to healthy nutrition, indicating these individuals' beliefs about the healthiness of their current daily diets. Future research and practices may consider the effect of Covid-19 on humans' nutritional attitudes and behaviours based on our study so that health-related issues in the pandemic can be further examined and explained through nutritional consequences by researchers and practitioners in the future.
涉及多国大规模隔离和居家令的新冠疫情已经影响了消费者行为，包括食物摄入。尽管情况很严重，但居家时间的增加可能会对消费者产生一些意想不到的后果。本研究旨在探讨当前不利情况下营养的变化，包括健康饮食态度、健康意识、恐惧以及家庭、同龄人和社交媒体互动的社会影响的变化。为此，对 732 名参与者进行了在线调查，其中大多数为女性，年龄在 26 至 55 岁之间，具有大学学历。使用结构方程建模方法对数据进行分析。结果表明，家庭影响和社交媒体影响对新冠恐惧和更高的健康意识有积极影响。同龄人的影响仅对健康意识有影响，而对新冠恐惧没有影响。健康意识和新冠恐惧对态度和健康意识有积极影响，态度与健康营养呈正相关，表明这些人对当前日常饮食健康的看法。未来的研究和实践可以根据本研究考虑新冠对人类营养态度和行为的影响，以便研究人员和从业者未来能够通过营养后果进一步研究和解释大流行中的健康问题。
