NDNS: Diet and physical activity – a follow-up study during COVID-19

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NDNS- Diet and physical activity – a follow-up study during COVID-19

The National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS) follow-up study, ‘Diet, nutrition and physical activity in 2020 – a follow-up study during COVID-19’, was published in September 2021. This webinar will describe the background, methods, findings and limitations of the study which aimed to describe and assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the diet and physical activity of people in the UK in 2020. Self-reported diet and physical activity data were collected for around 1,000 adults and children from August to October 2020 and compared with their diet and activity data obtained at the time of their original NDNS rolling programme interview, on average 2 years 7 months earlier. Data on food security, financial security and changes in dietary and health-related behaviours since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK in February 2020 were also collected in this study through a web questionnaire with the aim of helping to understand the context for any changes in diet and activity. The follow-up study used the new NDNS dietary assessment method based on the online recall tool Intake24. The webinar will also describe this major methodological change for NDNS, summarise the findings of the first stage of evaluation, also published in September, and plans for further evaluation.

What will I learn?

Have an in-depth understanding of the NDNS study design, outcomes and limitations
Knowledge on how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted diet and physical activity in the UK population
Insight into plans for future evaluation

Course Features

Lectures 2
Quiz 0
Duration Lifetime access
Skill level All levels
Language English
Students 221
Certificate Yes
Assessments Yes

Gillian Swan

Gillian Swan is a Senior Scientific Officer in the Dietary Surveys and Food Composition Team, which forms part of the wider Diet, Obesity and Physical Activity Division of the new Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) at the Department of Health and Social Care. She manages the contract for the UK National Diet and Nutrition Survey rolling programme, working closely with the contractor team on the design of the survey and the content of the reports.

Gillian has long experience of dietary survey and nutrient composition work in government, working for ten years for the Food Standards Agency, previously for the then Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, more recently for Department of Health and, from 2013 for its executive agency Public Health England, before transferring to OHID in October this year. Gillian has worked on NDNS from its original format of a series of stand-alone surveys of different age groups in the 1990s through to setting up the rolling programme in the mid-2000s, and most recently on the major change from a diary to an online recall method of dietary assessment.