Oh Hans, Smith Lee, Jacob Louis, Du Jinyu, Shin Jae Il, Zhou Sasha, Koyanagi Ai
Suzanne Dworak Peck School of Social Work, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Centre for Health, Performance, and Wellbeing, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
J Affect Disord. 2022 Apr 15;303:359-363. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2022.02.009. Epub 2022 Feb 11.
Food insecurity is prevalent among college students in the United States and has been associated with mental health problems. However, the literature is not entirely consistent and is missing key aspects of mental health.
Using cross-sectional data from the Health Minds Study (N = 96,379; September 2020-June 2021), we used multivariable logistic regression to examine associations between food insecurity and several aspects of mental health (i.e., depression, anxiety, languishing, perceived need, loneliness, self-injurious behaviors), adjusting for age, gender, race/ethnicity, financial distress, and parental education.
Food insecurity was associated with greater odds of having depression, anxiety, languishing, perceived need for help, loneliness, and self-injurious behaviors, adjusting for sociodemographic characteristics and markers of socioeconomic status.
This study found evidence to suggest that food insecurity is related to poor mental health in a large sample of young adult college students in the United States, calling for targeted interventions.
在美国，粮食不安全问题在大学生中普遍存在，且与心理健康问题有关。然而，相关文献并不完全一致，且遗漏了心理健康的关键方面。
利用健康心理研究的横断面数据（N = 96379；2020年9月至2021年6月），我们使用多变量逻辑回归来检验粮食不安全与心理健康的几个方面（即抑郁、焦虑、倦怠、感知到的需求、孤独、自我伤害行为）之间的关联，并对年龄、性别、种族/民族、经济困境和父母教育程度进行了调整。
在对社会人口学特征和社会经济地位指标进行调整后，粮食不安全与患抑郁症、焦虑症、倦怠、感知到需要帮助、孤独和自我伤害行为的几率更高有关。
本研究发现有证据表明，在美国大量年轻成年大学生样本中，粮食不安全与心理健康状况不佳有关，这需要有针对性的干预措施。
