Longitudinal study of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on diet and physical activity among Latinos of Mexican ancestry

Table 3 Effect of pandemic food security

Question	Overall model P	Regression coefficients (β)
Question	Overall model P	Time	Sex	Diabetes status
Cut the size of or skip meals	0.11	− 0.57	− 0.15	0.27
Eat less because you did not enough money	0.32	− 0.30	− 0.79	0.13
Go hungry because you did not enough money	0.33	− 0.40	− 1.00	0.17
Feel like you couldn’t afford to eat balanced meals	0.07	− 0.28	− 0.24	0.17*

Participants were asked, “In the last 12 months, did you…”. Shown are overall model significance and regression coefficients for time, sex, and BMI. Analysis was performed using ordinal logistic regression, controlling for sex and BMI. Females were coded “0” and males were coded “1”. Codes for diabetes status were normal HbA1c, “0”: prediabetes. “1”; and diabetes “2”
*P < 0.05

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