ArticleThe Journal of school health2022
Food Insecurity and Suicidal Behaviors Among US High School Students.
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- Food Insecurity Among Post-Secondary Students in High Income Countries: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Current nutrition reports · 2025Pooled it
- Food Insecurity and Mental Health Among High School Students: Evidence From National and Virginia Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Data.The Journal of school health · 2026Article
- Epigenetic Evidence Implies Disturbed Proteostasis and Potentially Protein Aggregation in Suicidality.Biomolecules · 2026Review
- Dietary behaviors, lifestyle habits, food insecurity risk and depressive symptoms among New York City adolescents: a cross-sectional study.BMC pediatrics · 2026Article
- Cognitive and Socioenvironmental Factors Associated with Suicide Ideation in Adolescents.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2026Article
- Household Food Insecurity Is Associated With Higher Adiposity Over Time Among Adolescents in Louisiana.Pediatric obesity · 2026Article
- Food insecurity and suicidal behaviours among Bangladeshi university students: a multi-institutional cross-sectional study.Public health nutrition · 2024Article
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- Precarious Young Adults' Mental Health during the Pandemic: The Major Impact of Food Insecurity Independently of COVID-19 Diagnosis.Nutrients · 2023Article
- Household food insecurity and health service use for mental and substance use disorders among children and adolescents in Ontario, Canada.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2023Article
- Suicidal behaviours and their correlates in school-going Lebanese adolescents: findings from a national survey.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2023Article
- Examining mediators of associations of food insecurity and being bullied with suicide among in-school adolescents in Eswatini: a cross-sectional study.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Suicidal ideation, plan, and attempt among men who have sex with men in Nepal: Findings from a cross-sectional study.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
- Past-Year Suicidal Ideation, Plans, and Attempts by Food Security Level in a Nationally Representative Sample of U.S. Adults.Archives of suicide research : official journal of the International Academy for Suicide ResearchArticle
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Abstract
backgroundFood insecurity (FI) rates in the United States are particularly high among households with children. This research set aims to analyze if high school students experiencing FI had higher risk for mental health and suicidal behaviors.
methodsUsing combined data from 11 states that conducted the 2017 Youth Risk Behavior Survey, a total of 26,962 and 24,051 high school students were used to estimate race/ethnicity and sex-stratified prevalence ratios (PRs) from Poisson regression models. A single-question was used to measure the exposure of FI and outcomes of mental health and suicidal behaviors.
resultsOverall, 10.8% of students reported FI. Students experiencing FI had increased risk for all mental health and suicide behavior outcomes, regardless of their race/ethnicity or sex. PRs ranged from 1.9 (95% confidence interval [CI]:1.8, 2.0) to 3.1 (CI: 2.7, 3.6). Among males, PRs for the association between FI and all outcomes were highest among non-Hispanic black students (PRs ranged from 2.4 [CI: 1.7, 3.2] to 5.5 [CI: 2.3, 13.3]). Among females, PRs were highest among non-Hispanic white students (PRs ranged from 1.9 [CI:1.7, 2.1] to 3.6 [CI:2.9, 4.5]).
conclusionsFI is consistently associated with mental health and suicidal behaviors among different subgroups of students.
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