SynthesisEating behaviors2023
Food insecurity and disordered eating behaviors in children and adolescents: A systematic review.
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- Interventions that address food insecurity for children aged 0-11 years, families, and pregnant women in the UK: a systematic review of intervention studies.Journal of nutritional science · 2026Pooled it
- Childhood food insecurity trajectories and adolescent eating disorder symptoms: a UK cohort study.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2026Article
- Cultural Food Practices and Their Potential Role in Mitigating Disordered Eating Among American Indian/First Nations Youth.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2026Article
- Cumulative Household Food Insecurity Is Associated with Adverse Eating Behaviors Among Youth Exposed to Gestational Diabetes in Utero.Nutrients · 2026Article
- Associations Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Disordered Eating in US Youth: The PLATE Study.JAACAP open · 2026Article
- Associations between food insecurity, food insufficiency, and disordered eating behaviors among U.S. adolescents.Eating behaviors · 2026Article
- Disordered eating behaviors, food insecurity and the COVID-19 pandemic among undergraduate students in the United States: a systematic review.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Review
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- Exploring the relationship between food insecurity, exercise addiction, and muscularity-oriented eating behavior: a moderated mediation analysis of muscle dysmorphia and resilience.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- Household Food Insecurity across Childhood and Weight Change Attempts in Early Adolescence: Findings from a Nationally Representative Cohort of United States Youth.Current developments in nutrition · 2026Article
- Food access relates to loss of control eating in adolescents with cardiometabolic conditions: Exploration of week-to-week variation.Journal of health psychology · 2026Article
- "Fulfilling the hunger": A qualitative study to understand the etiology of binge eating in adolescents experiencing food insecurity.Appetite · 2026Article
- Sex and age effects on binge eating spectrum disorders in young adults: a path analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
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- Food Insecurity and Appetitive Traits: A Prospective Analysis in Generation XXI Cohort.The International journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Food insecurity and disordered eating: Associations among adults with and without children.Appetite · 2025Article
- Family Socioeconomic Position and Eating Disorder Symptoms Across Adolescence.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Identifying Active Ingredients of the Association Between Neighborhood Disadvantage and Disordered Eating in Youth.The International journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Food security and eating disorder behaviors in the International Food Policy Study, 2018 to 2022.International journal of epidemiology · 2025Article
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Abstract
This study is the first systematic review to investigate the relationship between food insecurity (FI) and disordered eating behaviors exclusively in children and adolescents. Database searches were conducted in PUBMED, Embase, PsycINFO, ProQuest, and Gale OneFile: Informe Académico using English and Spanish search terms. Studies were included if they were published before August 2022, included youth aged 18 years and below, included either parent- or child-report of food security status, included either parent- or child-report of child disordered eating behaviors, and examined the relationship between food security status and child disordered eating behaviors. Following independent title/abstract and full-text screening, 20 studies were included in the review. There were 13 cross-sectional studies, five longitudinal studies, and two qualitative studies, from the United States (19 studies), and Bangladesh (1 study). Sample sizes ranged from 33 to 6077. Findings generally indicated a relationship between FI and behaviors such as binge eating, loss-of-control eating, eating in the absence of hunger, unhealthy weight control behaviors, and picky eating in children and adolescents, though this association varied depending on the type of disordered eating behavior assessed and FI severity. Results highlight the importance of screening for disordered eating behaviors among youth with FI towards eating disorder prevention and intervention. However, given the limited number of primary research articles examining this relationship in youth, further hypothesis-driven research is needed. In addition, more global representation and additional longitudinal studies are needed to further examine the generalizability and temporality of FI and disordered eating in children and adolescents.
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