Table 1.

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

	Inclusion	Exclusion
Population	Human studies on pandemic confinement	Animal studies Studies investigating the effect of obesity or overweight on various outcomes during the pandemics Diseases such as HIV, measles and mumps
Effect	Studies describing the impact of quarantine on body weight Studies showing the impact of quarantine on the overweight/obese population	Studies showing obesity or overweight as a risk factor for the pandemic
Outcome	Effect on body weight. Weight change (%), BMI change (kg/m2) Demographic, behavioural, social, physical, psychological, lifestyle and environmental behaviours during confinement that have effect body weight Studies showing measures taken to manage weight changes during confinement
Study	Designs: all study designs. Language: all languages. Year: publication year inception – 1 February 2021