Design of a clinical trial to isolate the experience of food insecurity and elucidate the biological mechanisms of risk for childhood health outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Food insecurity affects one in seven households with children in the United States, disproportionately impacts households headed by women and minorities, and is associated with childhood comorbidities, including obesity. While food insecurity likely contributes to poor health through its effect on diet, such a simplistic understanding likely obscures the effects of poverty-related stress and other Adverse Childhood Experiences, on metabolic health.

Methods

Over two summers, 100 children, ages 8-12 years, will be recruited from low-income households in an urban, Rhode Island community, to participate in an 8-week trial designed to isolate the experience of food insecurity. Summer represents a natural risk period of food insecurity in children, such that children wi

SUBMITTER: Evans EW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9156564 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature