Lifestyle changes in school children at risk of increasing functional constipation during COVID-19 pandemic
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Lifestyle is a habit that occurs continuously in a person's life. Lifestyle in children includes eating, sleeping, and exercise/movement patterns. Functional constipation is a defecation disorder characterized by infrequent bowel movements, hard and painful stools. Constipation is related to lifestyle. Prevalence in school children 0.7-29.6%. Covid-19 pandemic era has brought unprecedented changes to daily life and impact on children functional constipation which may be caused by a low physical activity, dietary changes and sleep disturbance. Prior research that constipation during Covid-19 documented a 1.3 to 2.1-fold rise in. We aimed to review that the lifestyle patterns related to functional constipation in school children during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Institution: Universitas Airlangga
Language: English
Subfield: Gastroenterology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4404511418
