“It’s a Feeling That One Is Not Worth Food”: A Qualitative Study Exploring the Psychosocial Experience and Academic Consequences of Food Insecurity Among College Students

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 […]

This 2018 study was conducted to investigate the link between household food insecurity and mental health issues in Indian teenagers living in urban slums. Out of 5 urban slums in Varanasi, India, 418 teenage girls were chosen randomly, and assessed on food security and mental health status. Food insecurity was reported by 47.6% of the […]