Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted many aspects of the country, including the economy and health care. Food insecurity is increasing, causing harm to children’s nutrition and development. As a result, mother must deal with food insecurity to providing a balanced diet for her children aged 6 to 23 months. This study aims to review the possible mother’s coping strategies used toward food insecurity to maintain child nutrition during the COVID-19 pandemic. To review the literature, the researcher utilized search engine such as PubMed, ScienceDirect, Oxford journal, and British Medical Journal. "COVID-19", "Coping Strategies", “Food Security”, and "Child” were among the keywords chosen by the researcher. After filtering with the several criteria, the 17 articles were reviewed. Based on this paper review, we know that during the COVID19 pandemic, there is a coping strategy that assist mother to maintain their child nutrition. To address the problem of food insecurity, the possible mother’s coping strategy used are adaptive coping strategies such as home-cooked meals, financial support, and receiving food assistance.
Highlights
COVID-19, a worldwide pandemic has been spreading
Household food insecurity has increased by one-third since COVID-19 with 35.5% of food insecure households classed as newly food
In the first stage the researchers conducted a review of coping strategies toward food insecurity in general and during COVID-19, while in the second stage the researchers searched for updated article related COVID-19 context
Summary
COVID-19, a worldwide pandemic has been spreading. Due to poor families, employment losses have exacerbated food insecurity.[3]. Household food insecurity has increased by one-third since COVID-19 with 35.5% of food insecure households classed as newly food. The mother must deal with food insecurity during the pandemic with coping strategy. It was practiced to increase the accessibility of food in their households to maintain the nutrition of the household member.[15]. To the best our knowledge, there are few studies on mother's coping strategies in maintaining the adequate dietary intake of their children aged 6-23 months. The purpose of this paper is to conduct a review of the literature on the possible mother’s coping strategies used toward food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic
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