Dietary attitudes and behaviours of women in China after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in three seismically different zones.

The sudden occurrence of the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake not only devastated people's health, but also may have impacted on the psychological and dietary attitudes and behaviours of the survivors. Although the influence of natural disaster on people's health has been extensively investigated, there is a lack of information about the effects on people's dietary attitudes and behaviours. Our aim was to evaluate the influence of the Wenchuan earthquake on the dietary attitudes and behaviours of adult women from different zones of China in July 2008.736 women, aged 18-55 years old, were randomly selected and interviewed after the earthquake. Women were selected from three zones: the earthquake zone (n=206), the shaking zone (n=326), and the non-seismic zone (n=204).Although nutrition knowledge mean scores of women in the three zones were relatively low, the women in the earthquake zone became more vigilant about the nutritional value and acceptability of food than women in the other two zones. Nevertheless, women in the earthquake zone also developed some arguably untoward, if understandable, behaviour after the disaster. They increased their consumption and tendency to stock instant food and snack items. That said, these findings were modulated by other factors such as age, residence, Body Mass Index (BMI), and nutrition knowledge itself, as were post-earthquake eating behaviours, as judged by the ordinal logistic regression analyses performed.The major Wenchuan earthquake was associated with differentials in dietary attitudes and behaviours among women by seismic zone.背景和目的：2008 年突发的汶川地震不仅摧毁了人们的健康,还可能对幸存者的 心理、饮食态度和行为造成影响。尽管已有许多关于自然灾害对人们健康影响 的调查，但缺少对人们饮食态度和行为影响的相关研究。本研究的目的是评估 汶川地震对居住在中国不同地区的成年女性的饮食态度和行为的影响。方法与 研究设计：随机抽取了736 名18-55 岁的女性作为研究对象，分布为地震区 （206 名）、震感区（326 名）和非地震区（204 名）。结果：3 组女性的营养 知识平均得分均相对较低,但地震区的女性比其他两个地区的女性更加警惕食物 的营养价值和可吸收性。然而,在地震区的女性也养成了一些不良饮食行为，如 储存速食食品和增加零食消费。Logistic 回归分析显示，年龄、地区、BMI 和营 养知识得分是女性震后零食摄入行为的影响因素。结论：本研究表明汶川地震 对不同地区女性的饮食态度和行为带来了不同程度的影响。.