Food supplements in nurses’ diet during COVID-19 pandemic

Autor: Rugole, Vedrana, Pucarin-Cvetković, Jasna, Milošević, Milan, Brumen, Vlatka
Přispěvatelé: Choi, Eun-Sook, Hong, OiSaeng, Jung, Hye-Sun, Kim, Young Im
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Safety and Health at Work, Vol 13, Iss, Pp S168-(2022)
Safety and Health at Work
ISSN: 2093-7911
Popis: The study aims at investigating the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the frequency of nurses’ food supplementation.The study was carried out in the winter of 2020-2021 in the City of Zagreb and comprised a total of 148 nurses affiliated with the PHCC “Centar”. Data were collected via a questionnaire adapted to the purpose. The research was approved by the Ethics Committee of PHCC. Differences between the group which changed its food supplementation during the COVID-19 pandemic and the group that did not were tested using the χ2 test. The results reveal the consumption of some food supplements to be habitual to nurses. COVID-19 pandemic urged over a third of them to start taking food supplements, or to increase the amount and frequency of their use (38.5%). As for vitamins, during the pandemic nurses increased D vitamin intake (P
Databáze: OpenAIRE