ArticlePublic health nutrition2021
Food insecurity and mental health outcomes among homeless adults: a scoping review.
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- Exploring the effects of COVID-19 outbreak control policies on services offered to people experiencing homelessness.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Health and income inequality: a comparative analysis of USA and Italy.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Predictors of persistent moderate and severe food insecurity in a longitudinal survey in Mexico during the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Precarious Young Adults' Mental Health during the Pandemic: The Major Impact of Food Insecurity Independently of COVID-19 Diagnosis.Nutrients · 2023Article
- An Evaluation of the Implementation of the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Farmers Market Nutrition Program at Four Chicago WIC Sites.Nutrients · 2023Article
- Food insecurity and its association with mental health among Syrian refugees resettled in Norway: A cross-sectional study.Journal of migration and health · 2023Article
- Assessing food security among young farmers in Africa: evidence from Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda.Agricultural and food economics · 2023Article
- Food insecurity as a risk factor for obesity: A review.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Review
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Abstract
objectiveThis review summarises and synthesises the existing literature on the relationship between food insecurity (FS) and mental health conditions among adult individuals experiencing homelessness.
designScoping review. Papers published between 1 January 2008 and 2 November 2018, searched in PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, PsycINFO, Cochrane Library and CINAHL, using homelessness, food security and mental health keywords.
settingGlobal evidence.
participantsHomeless adults aged 18 years or more.
resultsNine articles (eight cross-sectional and one longitudinal) were included in the present review. FS was measured using the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale, the United States Department of Agriculture Household Food Security Survey Module, as well as single-item or constructed measures. Depression and depressive symptoms were the most common mental health conditions studied. Other mental health conditions assessed included alcohol and substance use, emotional disorders, mental health problems symptoms severity and psychiatric hospitalisations. Composite measures such as axis I and II categories and a cluster of severe mental conditions and mental health-related functioning status were also analysed. FS and mental health-related problems were considered as both exposure and outcome variables. The existing evidence suggests a potential association between FS and several mental health conditions, particularly depression, mental health symptoms severity and poor mental health status scores.
conclusionsThis review suggests the potential association between some mental health conditions and FS among homeless adults. However, there is a need for more longitudinal- and interventional-based studies, in order to understand the nature and directionality of the links between FS and mental health in this population group.
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