Impacto da pandemia sobre mudanças alimentares de pacientes com diabetes mellitus tipo 2: uma revisão integrativa

Abstract

Introduction: The confinement generated by the COVID-19 pandemic caused changes in behavior and food consumption. In patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) these changeable changes are investigated. The aim of this study was to assess food consumption in DM2 patients during the confinement of the COVID-19 pandemic and to identify how changes occurred during this period. Methods: To search a PubMed MEDLINE database on April 9, 2021. Results: The initial search included 196 studies, which after going through the exclusion process, seven articles were selected for final analysis. Of the fulfilled articles were international. It was observed that adherence to the diet remained the same during the block, ranging from 48.3% to 86.4%. In addition to other positive reports such as increased consumption of fruits and vegetables and consumption of homemade food, and negative reports such as increased intake of sugary foods, carbohydrates and unhealthy snacks. Discussion: Studies discuss the effect of COVID-19 pandemic confinement on changes altered by people with DM2 and how negatives are generated when there are bad eating habits that can have an impact on patients' health, on the other hand they reported the changes having an improvement in your food consumption during this blocking period. Conclusion: There were mixed changes in the participants' food consumption, both positively and negatively. This study shows the factors that contributed so that there was change in food consumption. [resumo fornecido pelo autor]