The syndemic effects of food insecurity, water insecurity, and HIV on depressive symptomatology among Kenyan women.

ABSTRACT: Depression is a leading cause of disability worldwide and a major contributor to the overall global burden of disease, especially for women of childbearing age. Social science scholarship has demonstrated significant relationships between mental health, food insecurity (FI), water insecurity (WI), and HIV. Little is known, however, about the temporal relationships between food and water insecurity or the mechanisms through which these multiple stressors may operate or interact to impact depression. We therefore used syndemic theory to explore the complex relationships between FI, WI, and HIV on depressive symptomatology among Kenyan women of mixed HIV status (n=183, NCT02979418). We sought to 1) understand the temporal relationships between time-variant risk factors for depression, i.e. FI

SUBMITTER: Boateng GO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8869838 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature