Survey on nutritional status of school students during COVID-19 lockdown

Abstract

COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 virus was first observed in human population in December 2019 and it was very soon infected people across the world. The WHO declared the COVID-19 as a pandemic. It affected the world in all aspects of life. A lot of attention was paid on immunity and preventive measures of COVID-19 but lifestyle of normal healthy school students who were staying at home first time for such a long duration was ignored by most of the researchers. Therefore, present study aimed to highlight the consequence of lockdown & COVID-19 amongst the school students in Rajasthan, India of the age ranging from 14 to 25. A cross sectional online survey was conducted using Google forms. A total 200 responses were collected. It was found that long home stay caused unusual craving and eating energy dense foodstuffs that led to more than 20% weight gain during last one year in 75% students.