Food insecurity and mental health outcomes among homeless adults: a scoping review
| Autor: | Cilia Mejia-Lancheros, James Lachaud, Elizabeth I Loftus, Stephen W. Hwang |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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0301 basic medicine
Adult medicine.medical_specialty Population Medicine (miscellaneous) CINAHL PsycINFO Review Article Cochrane Library Disease cluster Food Supply 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Outcome Assessment Health Care medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Psychiatry education Depression (differential diagnoses) education.field_of_study 030109 nutrition & dietetics Nutrition and Dietetics Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Mental illness medicine.disease Mental health United States Food Insecurity Cross-Sectional Studies Ill-Housed Persons Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Public Health Nutr |
| ISSN: | 1475-2727 1368-9800 |
| Popis: | Objective:This review summarises and synthesises the existing literature on the relationship between food insecurity (FS) and mental health conditions among adult individuals experiencing homelessness.Design:Scoping review. Papers published between 1 January 2008 and 2 November 2018, searched in PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, PsycINFO, Cochrane Library and CINAHL, using homelessness, food security and mental health keywords.Setting:Global evidence.Participants:Homeless adults aged 18 years or more.Results:Nine articles (eight cross-sectional and one longitudinal) were included in the present review. FS was measured using the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale, the United States Department of Agriculture Household Food Security Survey Module, as well as single-item or constructed measures. Depression and depressive symptoms were the most common mental health conditions studied. Other mental health conditions assessed included alcohol and substance use, emotional disorders, mental health problems symptoms severity and psychiatric hospitalisations. Composite measures such as axis I and II categories and a cluster of severe mental conditions and mental health-related functioning status were also analysed. FS and mental health-related problems were considered as both exposure and outcome variables. The existing evidence suggests a potential association between FS and several mental health conditions, particularly depression, mental health symptoms severity and poor mental health status scores.Conclusions:This review suggests the potential association between some mental health conditions and FS among homeless adults. However, there is a need for more longitudinal- and interventional-based studies, in order to understand the nature and directionality of the links between FS and mental health in this population group. |
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