ArticleAmerican journal of preventive medicine2021
Food Insufficiency and Mental Health in the U.S. During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Article in American journal of preventive medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 59 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
59 citing papers in PubMed.
- Role of social determinants in anxiety and depression symptoms during COVID-19: A longitudinal study of adults in North Carolina and Massachusetts.Behaviour research and therapy · 2022Trial
- Effect of COVID-19 Stimulus Payments in Mitigating Food Hardship.AJPM focus · 2026Article
- The Mental Health Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Health and Social Care Workers.Health economics · 2026Article
- From childhood malnutrition to adult mental illness: COVID-19 and the hidden legacy of malnutrition.BMJ global health · 2026Article
- Inequities in food access during the COVID-19 pandemic: A multilevel, mixed methods pilot study.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Food and Housing Insecurity, Stress, and Health Care Use After Medicaid Expanded Services Program.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Food insecurity is associated with poor mental health outcomes among a diverse sample of young adults.Public health nutrition · 2025Article
- Food as medicine, community as medicine: Mental health effects of a social care intervention.Health services research · 2025Article
- Neural and Behavioral Correlates of Binge Eating in 9- to 10-Year-Old Children.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2025Observational
- Prenatal Mental Health and Its Stress-Process Mechanisms During a Pandemic Lockdown: A Moderated Parallel Mediation Model.Psychiatry investigation · 2025Article
- Food Insecurity Prevalence and Risk Factors among Persons with HIV in a Southeastern US Clinical Care Setting.AIDS and behavior · 2025Article
- "Our lives matter": a qualitative examination of the impact of COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders on resource security and mental and physical health of Black and Latino sexual minority men in California and New York.Journal of health equity · 2025Article
- Food Insufficiency Increased After The Expiration Of COVID-19 Emergency Allotments For SNAP Benefits In 2023.Health affairs (Project Hope) · 2024Article
- The association of increased SNAP benefits during COVID-19 with food insufficiency and anxiety among US adults: a quasi-experimental study.Public health nutrition · 2024Article
- Community Asset Density and Past-Year Mental Health Symptoms Among Youths.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- Food Insecurity across Age Groups in the United States during the COVID-19 Pandemic.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Experiences participating in federal nutrition assistance programs during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic: an investigation in Vermont.Nutrition journal · 2024Article
- Food insecurity and mental health among US adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: Results from National Health Interview Survey, 2020-2021.Journal of affective disorders · 2024Article
- The Intersection of Food Security and Mental Health in the Pursuit of Sustainable Development Goals.Nutrients · 2024Review
- Emergency Free School Meal Distribution During the COVID-19 Pandemic in High-Poverty Urban Settings.Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics · 2024Observational
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors.
Funding
Abstract
introductionDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, the rates of food insecurity and mental illness have been projected to increase in the U.S. owing to significant social and economic disruption. This study aims to estimate the prevalence of food insufficiency (often the most extreme form of food insecurity), the correlates of food insufficiency, and the associations between food insufficiency and symptoms of poor mental health in the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic.
methodsCross-sectional data from 63,674 participants of the U.S. Census Household Pulse Survey were collected and analyzed in 2020. Multiple Poisson regression models were used to estimate associations with food insufficiency.
resultsFood insufficiency rose from 8.1% to 10.0% from March to June 2020. Factors associated with food insufficiency included lower age, Black/African American or Latinx race/ethnicity, being unmarried, larger household size, recent employment loss, income below the federal poverty line, and lower education (all p<0.001). Food insufficiency was independently associated with all symptoms of poor mental health, adjusting for socioeconomic and demographic factors (adjusted RRs ranged from 1.16 to 1.42, all p<0.001). The association between food insufficiency and poor mental health was attenuated among people who received free groceries or meals.
conclusionsFood insufficiency has increased during the COVID-19 pandemic and affects vulnerable populations, placing individuals at higher risk for symptoms of poor mental health. Particularly in the current crisis, clinicians should regularly screen patients for food insufficiency and mental health outcomes as well as provide support in accessing appropriate resources.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.