Journal of Nutrition and Food Security

en Effects of Sanctions on Food Intake of Urban Households in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran (2017-2019) public specific orginal article <div style="text-align: justify;">Background: Sanctions are a type of forfeit aimed at forcing the subject to obey the desired political will. Since sanctions affect various components of the economic sectors. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of sanctions on food intake of households living in Khorasan Razavi province, Iran. Methods: To investigate the effect of sanctions on food intake of households living in Khorasan Razavi province, the survey data of the National Statistics Center of Iran (NSCI) on cost and income was used. 2129 households (number of households in 2017: 702, 2018: 726 and 2019: 701) were studied. In the N4 program, macronutrients and micronutrients were calculated. The studied variables were analyzed based on four income categories. In the SPSS software, quantitative variables of 2017 to 2019 were reviewed by ANOVA test and variables in pairs of the same period were reviewed by post hoc Tukey test. Results: The analysis showed that by intensifying sanctions, the cost of food has increased more than the average of income, and prices of all food groups spesifically healthy food groups have increased. The diet quality index has decreased significantly. The lower-income classes had the most insufficient dietary intake of micronutrients and the gap between dietary intake of different income classes increased during the study. Conclusion: Sanctions have affected the dietary intake due to the rise in the price of food expenditure and as a result people tend to consume cheaper and lower quality food. Corresponding Author:Abdolreza Norouzy <a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6740-5502" style="color:blue; text-decoration:underline">View Orcid in Profile</a> You can search for this author in <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=%28Abdolreza+Norouzy%5BAuthor%5D%29+AND+%28Mashhad+University+of+Medical+Sciences+Verified+email+at+mums.ac.ir%5BAuthor%5D%29&sort=">PubMed </a>   <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wzmz1NwAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao" style="color:blue; text-decoration:underline"> Google Scholar Profile</a>  </div> Sanctions, Food expenditures, Nutrition, Diet quality ndex, Iran 663 673 http://jnfs.ssu.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-516-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Sara Shafaati 0009-0008-4033-0545 No Department of Nutrition, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran Seyyed Reza Sobhani No Department of Nutrition, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran Elyas Nattagh-Eshtivani 0000-0003-0012-716X No Department of Nutrition, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran Maryam Khosravi 0000-0002-9821-1919 No Department of Nutrition, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran Sara Saeedi 0000-0001-8488-3055 No Department of Nutrition, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran Abdolreza Norouzy norouzya@mums.ac.ir 0000-0001-6740-5502 Yes Metabolic Syndrome Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.