Factors Associated with Financial Security, Food Security and Quality of Daily Lives of Residents in Nigeria during the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Morenike Oluwatoyin Folayan; Olanrewaju Ibigbami; Maha El Tantawi; Brandon Brown; Nourhan M Aly; Oliver Ezechi; Giuliana Florencia Abeldaño; Eshrat Ara; Martin Amogre Ayanore; Passent Ellakany; Balgis Gaffar; Nuraldeen Maher Al-Khanati; Ifeoma Idigbe; Anthonia Omotola Ishabiyi; Mohammed Jafer; Abeedha Tu-Allah Khan; Zumama Khalid; Folake Barakat Lawal; Joanne Lusher; Ntombifuthi P Nzimande; Bamidele Emmanuel Osamika; Mir Faeq Ali Quadri; Mark Roque; Ala'a B Al-Tammemi; Muhammad Abrar Yousaf; Jorma I Virtanen; Roberto Ariel Abeldaño Zuñiga; Joseph Chukwudi Okeibunor; Annie Lu Nguyen

doi:10.3390/ijerph18157925

Factors Associated with Financial Security, Food Security and Quality of Daily Lives of Residents in Nigeria during the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Jul 27;18(15):7925. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18157925.

Authors

Morenike Oluwatoyin Folayan^{1

2}, Olanrewaju Ibigbami^{1

3}, Maha El Tantawi^{1

4}, Brandon Brown^{1

5}, Nourhan M Aly^{1

4}, Oliver Ezechi^{1

6}, Giuliana Florencia Abeldaño^{1

7}, Eshrat Ara^{1

8}, Martin Amogre Ayanore^{1

9}, Passent Ellakany^{1

10}, Balgis Gaffar^{1

11}, Nuraldeen Maher Al-Khanati^{1

12}, Ifeoma Idigbe^{1

6}, Anthonia Omotola Ishabiyi^{1

13}, Mohammed Jafer^{1

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15}, Abeedha Tu-Allah Khan^{1

16}, Zumama Khalid^{1

16}, Folake Barakat Lawal^{1

17}, Joanne Lusher^{1

18}, Ntombifuthi P Nzimande^{1

19}, Bamidele Emmanuel Osamika^{1

20}, Mir Faeq Ali Quadri^{1

21}, Mark Roque^{1

22}, Ala'a B Al-Tammemi^{1

23}, Muhammad Abrar Yousaf^{1

24}, Jorma I Virtanen^{1

25}, Roberto Ariel Abeldaño Zuñiga^{1

26}, Joseph Chukwudi Okeibunor^{1

27}, Annie Lu Nguyen^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Mental Health and Wellness Study Group, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife 220282, Nigeria.
² Department of Child Dental Health, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife 220282, Nigeria.
³ Department of Mental Health, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife 220282, Nigeria.
⁴ Department of Pediatric Dentistry and Dental Public Health, Faculty of Dentistry, Alexandria University, Alexandria 21527, Egypt.
⁵ Department of Social Medicine, Population and Public Health, School of Medicine, University of California, Riverside, CA 92501, USA.
⁶ Department of Clinical Sciences, Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, Lagos 101212, Nigeria.
⁷ Institute for Research on Public Health, School of Medicine, University of Sierra Sur, Oaxaca 70805, Mexico.
⁸ Government College for Women, Moulana Azad Road, Srinagar Kashmir, J&K 190001, India.
⁹ Department of Health Policy Planning and Management, University of Health and Allied Sciences, PMB 31 Ho, Ghana.
¹⁰ Department of Substitutive Dental Sciences, College of Dentistry, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam 31441, Saudi Arabia.
¹¹ Department of Preventive Dentistry, College of Dentistry, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam 31441, Saudi Arabia.
¹² Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Dentistry, Syrian Private University, Damascus 36822, Syria.
¹³ Centre for Rural Health, School of Nursing and Public Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4001, South Africa.
¹⁴ Department of Preventive Dental Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry, Jazan University, Jazan 45142, Saudi Arabia.
¹⁵ Department of Health Promotion, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands.
¹⁶ School of Biological Sciences, University of the Punjab, Quaid-i-Azam Campus, Lahore 54590, Pakistan.
¹⁷ Department of Periodontology and Community Dentistry, University of Ibadan, Ibadan 200212, Nigeria.
¹⁸ School of Health and Life Sciences, University of the West of Scotland, London E142BE, UK.
¹⁹ Department of Economic and Human Geography, Faculty of Geosciences, University of Szeged, H-6722 Szeged, Hungary.
²⁰ Department of Psychology, Faculty of Environment, Management and Social Sciences, Lead City University, Ibadan 200255, Nigeria.
²¹ Division of Dental Public Health, Department of Preventive Dentistry, Jazan University, Jazan 45142, Saudi Arabia.
²² Department of Maternity & Childhood Nursing, College of Nursing, Taibah University, Madinah 42223, Saudi Arabia.
²³ Department of Family and Occupational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Doctoral School of Health Sciences, University of Debrecen, H-4032 Debrecen, Hungary.
²⁴ Institute of Zoology, University of the Punjab, Quaid-i-Azam Campus, Lahore 54590, Pakistan.
²⁵ Faculty of Medicine, University of Turku, FI-20014 Turku, Finland.
²⁶ Post Graduate School, University of Sierra Sur, Oaxaca 70800, Mexico.
²⁷ Research Development and Innovations, Assistant Regional Director Cluster, WHO Regional Office for Africa, Brazzaville BP 06, Congo.
²⁸ Department of Family Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 91803, USA.

Abstract

An online survey was conducted to identify factors associated with financial insecurity, food insecurity and poor quality of daily lives of adults in Nigeria during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The associations between the outcome (experience of financial loss, changes in food intake and impact of the pandemic on daily lives) and the explanatory (age, sex, education level, anxiety, depression, HIV status) variables were determined using logistic regression analysis. Of the 4439 respondents, 2487 (56.0%) were financially insecure, 907 (20.4%) decreased food intake and 4029 (90.8%) had their daily life negatively impacted. Males (AOR:0.84), people who felt depressed (AOR:0.62) and people living with HIV -PLHIV- (AOR:0.70) had significantly lower odds of financial insecurity. Older respondents (AOR:1.01) had significantly higher odds of financial insecurity. Those depressed (AOR:0.62) and PLHIV (AOR:0.55) had significantly lower odds of reporting decreased food intake. Respondents who felt anxious (AOR:0.07), depressed (AOR: 0.48) and who were PLHIV (AOR:0.68) had significantly lower odds of reporting a negative impact of the pandemic on their daily lives. We concluded the study findings may reflect a complex relationship between financial insecurity, food insecurity, poor quality of life, mental health, and socioeconomic status of adults living in Nigeria during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Keywords: AIDS; HIV; Nigeria; SARS-CoV-2; anxiety; depression; economic security; financial security; pandemic.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Adult
COVID-19*
Cross-Sectional Studies
Food Security
Food Supply
Humans
Male
Nigeria / epidemiology
Pandemics*
Quality of Life
SARS-CoV-2

Abstract

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MeSH terms

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