ArticleJournal of psychosomatic research2019
Depression, food insecurity and diabetic morbidity: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study.
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- Predictors of food insecurity among older adults before and during COVID-19 in the United States.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Depression and Diabetes in Workers Across the Life Span: Addressing the Health of America's Workforce-Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2014-2018.Diabetes spectrum : a publication of the American Diabetes Association · 2022Article
- Association of Food Insecurity With Allostatic Load Among Older Adults in the US.JAMA network open · 2021Article
- The Relationship between Food Security Status and Sleep Disturbance among Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study in an Indonesian Population.Nutrients · 2020Article
- Examining associations of food insecurity with major depression among older adults in the wake of the Great Recession.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2020Article
- The Longitudinal Influence of Social Determinants of Health on Glycemic Control in Elderly Adults With Diabetes.Diabetes care · 2020Article
- Association between Depressive Symptoms and Food Insecurity among Indonesian Adults: Results from the 2007-2014 Indonesia Family Life Survey.Nutrients · 2019Article
- Cross-sectional associations of food insecurity with smoking cigarettes and heavy alcohol use in a population-based sample of adults.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2019Article
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Abstract
objectiveThis study examined whether diabetic morbidity mediates the relationship of food insecurity with depression among older adults with diabetes.
methodsData came from the 2010-2014 waves of the Health and Retirement Study and analyses were limited to respondents with diabetes (n = 2951). Depression was indexed by the 8-item Centers for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale. Weighted logistic regression was used to examine relationships of food insecurity and diabetic morbidity with depressive symptoms, both cross-sectionally and longitudinally. Path analysis quantified the contribution of diabetic morbidity as a mediation of the relationship of food insecurity with depressive symptoms.
resultsFood insecurity was associated with having poor diabetes control (odds ratio (OR) = 1.7; 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.1-2.5) and diabetes-related kidney problems (OR = 1.6; 95% CI = 1.1-2.5). Additionally, food insecurity was associated with depression contemporaneously (OR = 2.0, 95% CI = 1.7-2.4) and longitudinally (OR = 1.5, 95% CI = 1.3-1.8). However, food insecurity was no longer associated with depression when adjusting for diabetic morbidity. In path analyses, diabetic morbidity explained 12.7% (p-value = .04) of the association of food insecurity with depressive symptoms in 2012 and 18.5% (p-value = .09) of the association with depressive symptoms in 2014.
conclusionThe relationship of food insecurity with depression was attributable to worse diabetes morbidity. Interventions that reduce food insecurity among older adults with diabetes may improve disease management and reduce depression severity.
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