Food Insecurity and Diet Quality Among Adults on Medicaid With and Without a Mental Illness Diagnosis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Adults with mental illnesses are more likely to have low income and diet-related chronic diseases.

Objective

This study examined associations of mental illness diagnosis status with food insecurity and diet quality and whether the relationship between food security status and diet quality differed by mental illness diagnosis status in adult Medicaid beneficiaries.

Design

This was a secondary cross-sectional analysis of baseline (2019-2020) data collected as part of the LiveWell study, a longitudinal study evaluating a Medicaid food and housing program.

Participants/setting

Participants were 846 adult Medicaid beneficiaries from an eastern Massachusetts health system.

Main outcome measures

Food security was measured with the 10-item US Adult Fo

SUBMITTER: Anderson E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10524583 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature