Food security mediates the decrease in women's depressive symptoms in a participatory nutrition-sensitive agroecology intervention in rural Tanzania.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate if food security mediated the impact of a nutrition-sensitive agroecology intervention on women's depressive symptoms.

Design

We used annual longitudinal data (four time points) from a cluster-randomised effectiveness trial of a participatory nutrition-sensitive agroecology intervention, the Singida Nutrition and Agroecology Project. Structural equation modelling estimation of total, natural direct and natural indirect effects was used to investigate food security's role in the intervention's impact on women's risk of probable depression (Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale > 17) across 3 years.

Setting

Rural Singida, Tanzania.

Participants

548 food insecure, married, smallholder women farmers with children < 1 year old at

SUBMITTER: Cetrone HM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10195350 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature