ArticleThe International journal of eating disorders2022
Food insecurity is associated with eating disorders independent of depression and anxiety: Findings from the 2020-2021 Healthy Minds Study.
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- Comorbid eating, depressive, and anxiety psychopathology is associated with elevated shame in women with food insecurity.The International journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
- Food Insecurity in Higher Education: A Contemporary Review of Impacts and Explorations of Solutions.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Review
- Do the SCOFF items function differently by food-security status in U.S. college students?: Statistically, but not practically, significant differences.Eating behaviors · 2023Article
- Health literacy and eating disorder pathology in women with food insecurity: A preliminary cross-sectional study.Eating behaviors · 2023Article
- Disordered eating during pregnancy among individuals participating in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC).Eating behaviors · 2023Article
- Factors associated with postpartum depression symptoms among postpartum women in five countries during the COVID-19 pandemic: an online cross-sectional study.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
- Trends and prevalence of suicide 2017-2021 and its association with COVID-19: Interrupted time series analysis of a national sample of college students in the United States.Psychiatry research · 2022Article
- Management of eating disorders for people with higher weight: clinical practice guideline.Journal of eating disorders · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo examine the association between food insecurity and eating disorder (ED) risk independent of co-occurring anxiety/depression.
methodData were provided by 121,627 undergraduate/graduate students who participated in the 2020-2021 Healthy Minds Study (HMS). Participants responded to questionnaire measures of food insecurity and risk for EDs, depression, and anxiety. Established cut-offs were used to identify students with food insecurity and probable psychopathology. Separate modified Poisson regressions adjusted for age, gender, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic background examined the association between food insecurity and each form of psychopathology. The association between food insecurity and probable ED was then examined in a regression further adjusted for probable depression and anxiety.
resultsFood insecurity was significantly associated with all three forms of psychopathology when examined separately (prevalence ratios ranged from 1.41 to 1.54, all p's < .001). When accounting for probable depression/anxiety, food insecurity was significantly associated with 1.19 times greater prevalence of a probable ED (p < .001). DISCUSSION: The association between food insecurity and EDs was replicated in a large, national sample of university students. To our knowledge, this is the first study to examine the independence of this relationship after adjusting for depression/anxiety. This finding supports the hypothesis that specific mechanisms, rather than general psychological distress, likely underlie the food insecurity-ED relationship.
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