The COVID-19 pandemic has had and continues to have major impact on public health. As our understanding of the virus has increased so has the research into how best to manage public health.
Sources of curated resources are available to support dietetic practice. NNEdPro Global Centre for Nutrition and Health has collated a variety of COVID-19 Nutrition Resources (webinars, articles, blogs and publications) focused on prevention and treatment of COVID-19 (https://www.nnedpro.org.uk/covid-19nutrition-resources).
Type of information |
Country/ Organisation |
Details |
Evidence Guide |
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Systematic and transparent approach to development1 (low/med/high) |
Ready for use in practice2 (yes/no) |
Information source |
Level of evidence3 |
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Review |
UK |
Low |
No |
Peer reviewed publications |
III |
|
Review |
USA |
Avoidance of vitamin D deficiency to slow the COVID-19 pandemic |
Low |
No |
Peer reviewed publications |
III |
Article |
Ireland |
Optimisation of Vitamin D Status for Enhanced Immuno-protection against Covid-19; and also the summaries for the Healthcare Professionals and for the Public |
Med |
No |
Peer review publication |
III C |
Position statement |
Spain |
Vitamin D supplementation during social estrangement by COVID-19: https://academianutricionydietetica.org/NOTICIAS/VitaminaD-COVID19.pdf |
Low |
Yes |
Peer reviewed literature |
IV |
Position paper |
Spain |
Food and nutrition recommendations against the coronavirus crisis, with recommendations for healthy people who are in confinement, pregnant and nursing, people with mild symptomatology in COVID-19 and critical patients in ICU. Spanish version – see here |
Low |
Yes |
Varied includes peer review publications |
IV |
Advice |
UK |
Low |
Yes |
Unclear |
V |
|
Advice |
UK |
Low |
Yes |
Unclear |
V |
|
Policy brief |
FAO |
Food system policy priorities and programmatic actions for healthy diets in the context of COVID-19 |
Low |
No |
Published grey literature |
V |
Advice |
Hungary |
Infographics for the general public - CoronaVirus Nutrition Guide 1, 2 and 3. |
Low |
Yes |
Unclear |
V |
Guideline |
Turkey |
Recommendations on Nutrition and COVID-19 is a guideline in Turkish and English |
Low |
Yes |
Published grey literature |
V |
Guidance |
WHO |
Guidelines on healthy eating during quarantine: http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/disease-prevention/nutrition/news/news/2020/3/food-and-nutrition-during-self-quarantine-what-to-choose-and-how-to-eat-healthily |
Low |
Yes |
Unclear |
V |
Recommendations |
UN |
Low |
No |
Unclear |
V |
|
Advice |
Germany |
FAQs of cancer patients about staying Home, food, etc during COVID-19. |
Low |
Yes |
Grey literature |
V |
Advice |
Portugal |
National Programme for Healthy Eating and the General Directorate of Health developed materials in the area of Food and Nutrition to inform the population (healthy people who are in confinement, pregnant and older people (https://nutrimento.pt/activeapp/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Alimentac%CC%A7a%CC%83o-e-COVID-19.pdf), children (https://nutrimento.pt/activeapp/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Alimentac%CC%A7a%CC%83o-sauda%CC%81vel-on-em-casa.pdf) |
Low |
Yes |
Unclear |
V |
Advice |
EUFIC |
COVID-19 package to inform people on the relation between food & the pandemic: Food & coronavirus: what you need to know?; 7 tips to keep healthy while in isolation or quarantine; 10 tips to eat healthy during isolation or quarantine |
Low |
Yes |
Unclear |
V |
Advice |
Greece |
Nutrition and excercise recommendations for the quarantine, proposed by the Greek Ministry of Health (General Secretary of Public Health,National Committee of Nutrition Policy) with the title "Stay home, stay fit, eat healthy".
|
Low |
Yes |
Unclear |
V |
Advice |
DG SANTE |
Low |
Yes |
Peer reviewed and grey literature |
V |
|
Advice |
Greece |
The Hellenic Dietetic Association’s (HDA) Groups of Experts have developed an informative public campaign that aims to help people follow a healthy diet and to control potential overeating which could affect their body weight during the lockdown period resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic. Download the list of materials in Greek developed by HDA’s Expert Groups here. |
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|
|
V |
Advice |
Hungary |
Low |
Yes |
Unclear |
V |
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1 Systematic and transparent approach to development: low = no methods described; medium = short descriptions on methods, but we cannot replicate all steps and/or we are not sure that all evidence is retrieved; high = long and detailed description of methods and we have some certainty that all evidence is retrieved. 2Ready for use in practice: yes = the information is specific enough to guide the practice of dietitians; no = the information is more general and only informative 3Level of evidence: Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice Evidence Level and Quality Guide. |