Food insecurity and housing instability during early childhood as predictors of adolescent mental health

El Zein et al. (2019) hypothesizes that college students may be more susceptible to being food-insecure because of limited financial power and the growing costs of living. This study performed tests on first-year college students to determine the relationship between food insecurity and sociodemographic, health, academic, and dietary factors. Among the 855 young subjects, around […]

While food insecurity has been linked with depression and anxiety, Pryor et al. (2016) find that there is limited data on its relationship with other psychiatric disorders among young adults. Therefore, this study examined whether food insecurity is associated with four common mental health problems (major depressive episode, suicidal ideation, attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder, […]