ArticlePublic health nutrition2021
Food insecurity and depression among low-income adults in the USA: does diet diversity play a role? Findings from the 2013-2014 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
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- Effect of dietary diversity on depression and depressive symptoms: a systematic review and meta-analysis of cross-sectional studies.BMC public health · 2025Pooled it
- Socioeconomic disparities and nutritional aging: how food insecurity and financial hardship accelerate health decline in older adults.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Review
- The association between food insecurity and obesity, a body shape index and body roundness index among US adults.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Neighborhood socioeconomic status is associated with low diversity gut microbiomes and multi-drug resistant microorganism colonization.NPJ biofilms and microbiomes · 2023Article
- Household Food Insecurity Negatively Impacts Diet Diversity in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: A Cross-Sectional Study.Asia-Pacific journal of public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectiveFood insecurity is associated with a greater risk of depression among low-income adults in the USA. Members of food-insecure households have lower diet diversity than their food-secure counterparts. This study examined whether diet diversity moderates the association between food insecurity and depression.
designMultiple logistic regression was conducted to examine independent associations between food insecurity and depression, between diet diversity and depression, and the moderating effect of diet diversity in the food insecurity-depression link.
settingCross-sectional data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2013-2014).
participants2636 low-income adults aged 18 years and older.
resultsThere was a positive association between food insecurity and depression among low-income adults. Diet diversity was not associated with depression. Diet diversity had a moderating effect on the association between food insecurity and depression among low-income adults.
conclusionsFood insecurity is independently associated with depression among low-income adults in the USA. However, this association differs across levels of diet diversity. Longitudinal studies are needed to confirm the role diet diversity may play in the pathway between food insecurity and depression.
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