Systematic evidence and gap map of research linking food security and nutrition to mental health

Food insecurity on college campuses is a public health concern, yet research concentrating on graduate students or postdoctoral trainees, especially those attending private academic institutions, remains scarce. Hammad & Leung (2024) sought to calculate the frequency of and contributing variables to food insecurity among postdoctoral fellows and graduate students at a Boston, Massachusetts-based private institution. […]

Although there is strong evidence linking maternal exposure to domestic violence with her children’s poor nutrition, Lentz (2018) remarks the less researched relationship between domestic violence, nutrition, and food security. The literature has proposed the ideas that the victims’ poor nutrition could be a result of the offenders restricting food as a form of violence […]