SynthesisAmerican journal of public health2014
Relationship between diet and mental health in children and adolescents: a systematic review.
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Engaging Children With Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities and Their Parents to Adopt a Healthy Lifestyle: Piloting the Game Squad Home Exergaming & Virtual Health Coaching Intervention
Who cites it
338 citing papers in PubMed, 17 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Do the Drivers of Food Choice Differ Between Healthier and Less Healthy Foods? A Systematic Review of Reviews.Nutrition reviews · 2026Pooled it
- Constipation is associated with an increased risk of depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies.Translational psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Digital Tools for the Promotion of Healthy and Sustainable Eating Behaviors in the General Population: A Systematic Review of the Literature.Nutrients · 2026Pooled it
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- Microbiome and well-being: a meta-analysis.NPJ biofilms and microbiomes · 2025Pooled it
- Systematic and Narrative Review of the Mediating Role of Personal Relationships Between Mental Health and Nutrition.Nutrients · 2025Pooled it
- Effect of dietary diversity on depression and depressive symptoms: a systematic review and meta-analysis of cross-sectional studies.BMC public health · 2025Pooled it
- Effectiveness of peer-led health behaviour interventions on adolescent's mental health and wellbeing: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2025Pooled it
- Moderators and mediators of the relationship between parental depression and children's emotion dysregulation: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- How does sugar-sweetened beverage consumption relate to sleep and mental health in adolescents? A scoping review.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Pooled it
- Effectiveness of mHealth interventions targeting physical activity, sedentary behaviour, sleep or nutrition on emotional, behavioural and eating disorders in adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in digital health · 2025Pooled it
- The impact of smartphone app-based interventions on adolescents' dietary intake: a systematic review and evaluation of equity factor reporting in intervention studies.Nutrition reviews · 2024Pooled it
- The burden of psychological distress and unhealthy dietary behaviours among 222,401 school-going adolescents from 61 countries.Scientific reports · 2023Pooled it
- Healthy eating interventions delivered in early childhood education and care settings for improving the diet of children aged six months to six years.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Pooled it
- Dietary patterns and internalizing symptoms in children and adolescents: A meta-analysis.The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- Relationship Between Fruit and Vegetables Intake and Common Mental Disorders in Youth: A Systematic Review.Public health reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Associations between dietary intake, diet quality and depressive symptoms in youth: A systematic review of observational studies.Health promotion perspectives · 2022Pooled it
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- Two a Priori Dietary Indices among Young Children in the Children's Healthy Living (CHL) Trial: Validation and Association with Health Outcomes.The Journal of nutrition · 2025Trial
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Abstract
We systematically reviewed 12 epidemiological studies to determine whether an association exists between diet quality and patterns and mental health in children and adolescents; 9 explored the relationship using diet as the exposure, and 3 used mental health as the exposure. We found evidence of a significant, cross-sectional relationship between unhealthy dietary patterns and poorer mental health in children and adolescents. We observed a consistent trend for the relationship between good-quality diet and better mental health and some evidence for the reverse. When including only the 7 studies deemed to be of high methodological quality, all but 1 of these trends remained. Findings highlight the potential importance of the relationship between dietary patterns or quality and mental health early in the life span.
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