ArticlePublic health nutrition2024
Increasing food insecurity severity is associated with lower diet quality.
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- The Association of Food Insecurity and Risk of Mortality: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Large-Scale Cohorts.Nutrients · 2025Pooled it
- Causal Forests in Practice: Lessons on Detecting Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in a Randomized Controlled Trial of a Healthy Food Subsidy Program in Canada.The Journal of nutrition · 2026Trial
- Food Insecurity and Binge Eating: Exploring Reward-Based Eating, Psychological Distress, and Diet Quality as Underlying Mechanisms.Nutrients · 2026Article
- Micronutrient intake and food insecurity among mothers of infants with orofacial clefts: a cross-sectional study in Iran.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Strengths-based resilience: the biopsychosocial factors that differentiate 12-year mental well-being trajectories following adverse childhood experiences.Psychological medicine · 2026Article
- Income, food expenditure shares, and severe food insecurity in Australia across 21 waves of HILDA.Health promotion international · 2026Article
- The impact of genetics and the environment on cancer risk in Indigenous Australians: a narrative review.The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific · 2025Review
- Affordability of Habitual (Unhealthy) and Recommended (Healthy) Diets in the Illawarra Using the Healthy Diets ASAP Protocol.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Supporting those experiencing food insecurity: A scoping review of the role of a dietitian.Journal of human nutrition and dietetics : the official journal of the British Dietetic Association · 2025Article
- Food Insecurity Is Common in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Is Associated with Increased Ultra-Processed Food Intake.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Food Banks as a "Treasure Trove": Users' Experiences of a Western Australian Food Relief Organization.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Prevalence and Predictors of Soft Drink Consumption among Adolescents in the Gulf Countries: Findings from National Surveys.Nutrients · 2024Article
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Abstract
objectiveFood insecurity may reduce diet quality, but the relationship between food insecurity severity and diet quality is under-researched. This study aimed to examine the relationship between diet quality and severity of household food insecurity.
designA cross-sectional, online survey used the United States Department of Agriculture Household Food Security Six-item Short Form to classify respondents as food secure or marginally, moderately or severely food insecure. The Australian Recommended Food Score (ARFS; scored 0–73) determined diet quality (ARFS total and sub-scale scores). Survey-weighted linear regression (adjusted for age, sex, income, education, location and household composition) was conducted.
settingTasmania, Australia.
participantsCommunity-dwelling adults (aged 18 years and over).
resultsThe mean ARFS total for the sample (
conclusionsPoorer diet quality is evident in marginally, moderately and severely food-insecure adults. Interventions to reduce food insecurity and increase diet quality are required to prevent poorer nutrition-related health outcomes in food-insecure populations in Australia.
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