Food insecurity, depressive symptoms, and the salience of gendered family roles during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa.

ABSTRACT: Extensive research has indicated food insecurity to be associated with depressive symptoms, both of which have been indicated to increase globally during the COVID-19 pandemic. Few studies, however, have made use of nationally representative and longitudinal data to investigate this relationship, making causal claims difficult. In South Africa (SA), as with other low- and middle-income contexts, population-based studies have generally focused on mothers during the perinatal period and other vulnerable groups. This study made use of Cross-Lagged Dynamic Panel Models to examine the relationship between household food insecurity and the depressive symptoms of adults across three waves of the National Income Dynamics Survey-Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey (NIDS-CRAM) study collected in 2020 an

SUBMITTER: Shepherd DL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8882481 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature