Disparities in food insecurity between sexual minority and heterosexual adults - a higher burden on bisexual individuals.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Sexual minorities-individuals who identify as gay/lesbian, bisexual, or other non-heterosexual individuals-experience higher rates of food insecurity (FI) compared to heterosexual individuals. During the COVID-19 pandemic, discrimination and structural racism, which are known risk factors for food insecurity, were perpetuated against sexual and racial/ethnic minorities. However, to our knowledge, a nationally representative analysis of the impact of the pandemic on food insecurity by sexual minority status and based on race/ethnicity is missing. We aimed to determine the degree of association between FI and sexual minority adults overall, before (2019) and during (2020-2021) the pandemic, and stratified by race/ethnicity.

Methods

We used nationally representative

SUBMITTER: Sharareh N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10441544 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature