SynthesisBMC nutrition2024
Focusing attention on the important association between food insecurity and psychological distress: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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- Psychological distress and unmet mental health needs of low-income food assistance recipients who smoke.Psychology, health & medicine · 2026Article
- Food Insecurity and Binge Eating: Exploring Reward-Based Eating, Psychological Distress, and Diet Quality as Underlying Mechanisms.Nutrients · 2026Article
- Diet Cost and Affordability in Queensland: A Two-Year Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Article
- The Academic Hunger Gap: From Plates to Well-Being-How Food Insecurity Undermines Quality of Life in University Students.Food science & nutrition · 2026Article
- Nurturing Care Systems Underlying Early Childhood Food Insecurity in Brazil: A Causal Loop Diagram Approach.Maternal & child nutrition · 2026Article
- Food insecurity, epigenetic age acceleration, and depression in middle-aged and older adults: a longitudinal cohort study.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Socioeconomic disparities and nutritional aging: how food insecurity and financial hardship accelerate health decline in older adults.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Review
- Economic Insecurities and Patient-Reported Outcomes Among Cancer Survivors after Receiving External Beam Radiotherapy for Prostate Cancer: A Cross-sectional Study.Urologic nursing · 2026Article
- The relationship between shyness and depression: the multiple mediating roles of sense of security and adaptability.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Socio-demographic risk factors for food insecurity among students at five North Carolina colleges: The influence on fruit and vegetable intake and perceived health and well-being.Preventive medicine reports · 2025Article
- The Role of Food Security as a Social Determinant of Mental Health in College Students.Delaware journal of public health · 2025Article
- Psychosocial and Academic Implications of Food Insecurity Among International Students: A Qualitative Study in Hungary.Nutrients · 2025Article
- From sacred education to street exploitation: the Almajiri Crisis in Nigeria as a nexus of public health failures, legal paralysis, and global security risks.Philosophy, ethics, and humanities in medicine : PEHM · 2025Review
- Hungry for connection: associations between social isolation, mental health, and food insecurity in regional Australian adults.Health promotion international · 2025Article
- Household food security and its influence on psychological well-being: a cross-sectional study among adults in slums in Bangladesh.BMJ open · 2025Article
- Association between food insecurity and mental health outcomes among a convenient sample of Lebanese pregnant women.PloS one · 2025Article
- Prevalence and predictors of food insecurity in conflict zones among displaced families in Lebanon during the war: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundFood insecurity has involved more than 750 million individuals worldwide. The association of food insecurity with socio-economic factors is also undeniable demand more consideration. Food insecurity will become a global priority by 2030. This systematic review and meta-analysis examined current literature concerning the association between food insecurity and psychological distress.
methodsRelevant researches were identified by searching databases including PubMed, EMBASE, Scopus, and Web of Science, ProQuest, and Cochrane Library up to June 2024 without language limitation. Then a snowball search was conducted in the eligible studies. The quality assessment was made through Newcastle-Ottawa Scale.
resultsData were available from 44 cross-sectional articles for systematic review and 17 eligible articles for meta-analysis with 2,267,012 and 1,953,636 participants, respectively. Findings support the growing segment of literature on the association between food insecurity and psychological distress. The highly represented groups were households with low income. Psychological and diabetic distress was directly associated with food insecurity as it increased the odds of distress to 329% (OR: 3.29; 95% CI: 2.46-4.40). Sleep problems, anxiety, depression, lower life satisfaction, obesity, and a higher rate of smoking were among the secondary outcomes.
conclusionFood insecurity was a common stressor that can have a negative impact on psychological well-being and even physical health. The findings should be considered in the public health and making policy-making process.
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