Food insecurity and mental health: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Food security has been suggested to be a risk factor for depression, stress and anxiety. We therefore undertook a systematic review and meta-analysis of available publications to examine these associations further.

Design

Relevant studies were identified by searching Web of Science, Embase, Scopus and PubMed databases up to January 2019.

Setting

OR was pooled using a random-effects model. Standard methods were used for assessment of heterogeneity and publication bias.

Participants

Data were available from nineteen studies with 372 143 individual participants from ten different countries that were pooled for the meta-analysis.

Results

The results showed there was a positive relationship between food insecurity (FI) and risk of depression (OR = 1

SUBMITTER: Pourmotabbed A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10200655 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature