PMID- 35287267
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20221130
IS  - 0038-0121 (Print)
IS  - 0038-0121 (Electronic)
IS  - 0038-0121 (Linking)
VI  - 82
DP  - 2022 Aug
TI  - The impact of social welfare and COVID-19 stringency on the perceived utility of 
      food apps: A hybrid MCDM approach.
PG  - 101299
LID - 10.1016/j.seps.2022.101299 [doi]
AB  - The COVID-19 pandemic has created enormous challenges for society due to the 
      various ways of impacting health. This paper focuses on the impact of the 
      COVID-19 pandemic on people's food consumption patterns in the online 
      environment. We investigate food app reviews and examine whether countries with a 
      high rate of success with COVID-19 control consume more unhealthy food through 
      mobile apps. We also investigate whether the population of countries with low 
      social welfare eat more unhealthy food during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to 
      countries with high social welfare. We take a hybrid multi-criteria decision 
      making (MCDM) approach to calculate indexes based on the technique for order of 
      preference by similarity to an ideal solution, complex proportional assessment, 
      and VlseKriterijuska Optimizacija I Komoromisno Resenje. Results show that 
      country social welfare and success in COVID-19 control negatively affect the 
      perceived utility of the apps. Also, success in COVID-19 control and the 
      perceived utility of food apps positively affect the proportion of unhealthy 
      reviews, whereas social welfare has a negative impact. The results have important 
      implications for public health policymakers, showing that the online food 
      environment can be an important setting for interventions that seek to 
      incentivize healthy eating.
CI  - (c) 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Hassad de Andrade, Liz
AU  - Hassad de Andrade L
AD  - EBAPE, Fundacao Getulio Vargas, Brazil.
FAU - Moreira Antunes, Jorge Junio
AU  - Moreira Antunes JJ
AD  - COPPEAD Graduate Business School, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
FAU - Araujo de Medeiros, Antonio Mamede
AU  - Araujo de Medeiros AM
AD  - EBAPE, Fundacao Getulio Vargas, Brazil.
FAU - Wanke, Peter
AU  - Wanke P
AD  - COPPEAD Graduate Business School, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
FAU - Nunes, Bernardo Pereira
AU  - Nunes BP
AD  - School of Computing and Centre for Digital Humanities Research, the Australian 
      National University, Australia.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20220310
PL  - United States
TA  - Socioecon Plann Sci
JT  - Socio-economic planning sciences
JID - 9877811
PMC - PMC8907131
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - COVID-19 control
OT  - Food consumption
OT  - MCDM
OT  - Online environment
OT  - Social welfare
OT  - Unhealthy food
EDAT- 2022/03/16 06:00
MHDA- 2022/03/16 06:01
PMCR- 2022/03/10
CRDT- 2022/03/15 05:05
PHST- 2021/09/09 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2022/02/22 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2022/03/07 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2022/03/16 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/03/16 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2022/03/15 05:05 [entrez]
PHST- 2022/03/10 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - S0038-0121(22)00084-2 [pii]
AID - 101299 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.seps.2022.101299 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Socioecon Plann Sci. 2022 Aug;82:101299. doi: 10.1016/j.seps.2022.101299. Epub 
      2022 Mar 10.