SynthesisInternational journal of environmental research and public health2019
Household Food Insecurity Narrows the Sex Gap in Five Adverse Mental Health Outcomes among Canadian Adults.
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- Food-based interventions to mitigate household food insecurity in Canada: a systematic review.Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada : research, policy and practice · 2025Pooled it
- Associations between low food security and subjective memory complaints among Latino adults.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Exploring the non-linear association of daily cigarette consumption behavior and food security- An application of CMP GAM regression.PloS one · 2025Article
- The joint effect of female sex and food insecurity on self-reported mood disorder among Canadian adults: the Canadian community health survey.BMC nutrition · 2023Article
- Moment of reckoning for household food insecurity monitoring in Canada.Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada : research, policy and practice · 2022Article
- Food worry and mental health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic.BMC public health · 2022Article
- A rapid assessment of migrant careworkers' psychosocial status during Israel's COVID-19 lockdown.Israel journal of health policy research · 2020Article
- Addressing Food and Nutrition Security in Developed Countries.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Food Insecurity and Hunger in Rich Countries-It Is Time for Action against Inequality.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
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The sex gap (i.e., the significant difference in an outcome between men and women) in the occurrence of a variety of mental health conditions has been well documented. Household food insecurity has also repeatedly been found to be associated with a variety of poor mental health outcomes. Although both sex and household food insecurity have received attention individually, rarely have they been examined together to explore whether or how these indicators of two social locations interact to impact common mental health outcomes. Using a pooled sample (N = 302,683) of the Canadian Community Health Survey (2005⁻2012), we test whether sex modifies the relationship between household food insecurity assessed by the Household Food Security Survey Module and five adverse mental health outcomes, controlling for confounding covariates. Although the sex gap was observed among food secure men versus women, males and females reporting any level of food insecurity were equally likely to report adverse mental health outcomes, compared with those reporting food security. Therefore, household food insecurity seems to narrow the sex gap on five adverse mental health outcomes.
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