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0283/2023 - Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on malnutrition in socially vulnerable children in Brazil
Efeito da pandemia da COVID-19 sobre a má nutrição em crianças em vulnerabilidade social, no Brasil

Author:

• Elisa Santos Magalhães Rodrigues - Rodrigues, E.S.M - <elisasmr@gmail.com>
ORCID: htps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4091-9452

Co-author(s):

• Elisa Miranda Costa - Costa, E.M - <elisamirandacosta@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5364-0384
• Francenilde Silva de Sousa - de Sousa, F.S. - <fraansoousa@gmail.com>
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0681-7620
• Felipe Bezerra Pimentel Araújo - Araújo, F.B.P - <felippimentell1@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7247-8682
• Mariana Borges Sodré Lopes - Lopes, M.B.S - <mariana.borges@discente.ufma.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6631-1491
• Erika Barbara Abreu Fonseca Thomaz - Thomaz, E.B.A.F - <erika.barbara@ufma.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4156-4067


Abstract:

Objective: To evaluate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on malnutrition in under two years of age enrolled in the Bolsa Família Program. Method: Ecological study of interrupted time series, with low weight for age, stunting and overweight as time-dependent variables of malnutrition, extracted monthly (Jan/2008 to June/2021)the Food and Nutritional Surveillance System. The COVID-19 pandemic was the exposure, dichotomized into pre and pandemic. In RStudio, the trend was obtained by Prais-Winsten regression, and the effect of the pandemic on the time-dependent variables, by SARIMA modeling, estimating the regression coefficients (RC) adjusted for trend and seasonality (α=5%). Results: The pandemic was associated with an increase in: i) low weight for age in the South (RC=0.94; p

Keywords:

COVID-19. Malnutrition. Overweight. Children.

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Rodrigues, E.S.M, Costa, E.M, de Sousa, F.S., Araújo, F.B.P, Lopes, M.B.S, Thomaz, E.B.A.F. Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on malnutrition in socially vulnerable children in Brazil. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2023/Sep). [Citado em 05/10/2024]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/effect-of-the-covid19-pandemic-on-malnutrition-in-socially-vulnerable-children-in-brazil/18909?id=18909



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