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

To assess the relationship between poverty, depression, and food insecurity, Wu et al. (2018) designed this study to inspect family socioeconomic status (SES), maternal depression, and household food insecurity across children’s first five years of life. Data were extracted from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort (ECLS-B), a dataset nationally representative of all children born […]

Teasdale et al. (2021) conducted a review and meta-analysis to report the prevalence of food insecurity in people with severe mental illnesses. It is believed that these patients with major depression, bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia experience several risk factors that may predispose them to food insecurity. But there has been limited research done on the […]