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Associations between fruit and vegetable consumption and psychological distress: results from a population-based study
BACKGROUND: Several studies observed associations of various aspects of diet with mental health, but little is known about the relationship between following the 5-a-day recommendation for fruit and vegetables consumption and mental health. Thus, we examined the associations of the Swiss daily recom...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4590213/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26424583 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-015-0597-4 |
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author | Richard, Aline Rohrmann, Sabine Vandeleur, Caroline L. Mohler-Kuo, Meichun Eichholzer, Monika |
author_facet | Richard, Aline Rohrmann, Sabine Vandeleur, Caroline L. Mohler-Kuo, Meichun Eichholzer, Monika |
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description | BACKGROUND: Several studies observed associations of various aspects of diet with mental health, but little is known about the relationship between following the 5-a-day recommendation for fruit and vegetables consumption and mental health. Thus, we examined the associations of the Swiss daily recommended fruit and vegetable intake with psychological distress. METHODS: Data from 20,220 individuals aged 15+ years from the 2012 Swiss Health Survey were analyzed. The recommended portions of fruit and vegetables per day were defined as 5-a-day (at least 2 portions of fruit and 3 of vegetables). The outcome was perceived psychological distress over the previous 4 weeks (measured by the 5-item mental health index [MHI-5]). High distress (MHI-5 score ≤ 52), moderate distress (MHI-5 > 52 and ≤ 72) and low distress (MHI-5 > 72 and ≤ 100) were differentiated and multinomial logistic regression analyses adjusted for known confounding factors were performed. RESULTS: The 5-a-day recommendation was met by 11.6 % of the participants with low distress, 9.3 % of those with moderate distress, and 6.2 % of those with high distress. Consumers fulfilling the 5-a-day recommendation had lower odds of being highly or moderately distressed than individuals consuming less fruit and vegetables (moderate vs. low distress: OR = 0.82, 95 % confidence interval [CI] 0.69-0.97; high vs. low distress: OR = 0.55, 95 % CI 0.41-0.75). CONCLUSIONS: Daily intake of 5 servings of fruit and vegetable was associated with lower psychological distress. Longitudinal studies are needed to further determine the causal nature of this relationship. |
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spelling | pubmed-45902132015-10-02 Associations between fruit and vegetable consumption and psychological distress: results from a population-based study Richard, Aline Rohrmann, Sabine Vandeleur, Caroline L. Mohler-Kuo, Meichun Eichholzer, Monika BMC Psychiatry Research Article BACKGROUND: Several studies observed associations of various aspects of diet with mental health, but little is known about the relationship between following the 5-a-day recommendation for fruit and vegetables consumption and mental health. Thus, we examined the associations of the Swiss daily recommended fruit and vegetable intake with psychological distress. METHODS: Data from 20,220 individuals aged 15+ years from the 2012 Swiss Health Survey were analyzed. The recommended portions of fruit and vegetables per day were defined as 5-a-day (at least 2 portions of fruit and 3 of vegetables). The outcome was perceived psychological distress over the previous 4 weeks (measured by the 5-item mental health index [MHI-5]). High distress (MHI-5 score ≤ 52), moderate distress (MHI-5 > 52 and ≤ 72) and low distress (MHI-5 > 72 and ≤ 100) were differentiated and multinomial logistic regression analyses adjusted for known confounding factors were performed. RESULTS: The 5-a-day recommendation was met by 11.6 % of the participants with low distress, 9.3 % of those with moderate distress, and 6.2 % of those with high distress. Consumers fulfilling the 5-a-day recommendation had lower odds of being highly or moderately distressed than individuals consuming less fruit and vegetables (moderate vs. low distress: OR = 0.82, 95 % confidence interval [CI] 0.69-0.97; high vs. low distress: OR = 0.55, 95 % CI 0.41-0.75). CONCLUSIONS: Daily intake of 5 servings of fruit and vegetable was associated with lower psychological distress. Longitudinal studies are needed to further determine the causal nature of this relationship. BioMed Central 2015-10-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4590213/ /pubmed/26424583 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-015-0597-4 Text en © Richard et al. 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Richard, Aline Rohrmann, Sabine Vandeleur, Caroline L. Mohler-Kuo, Meichun Eichholzer, Monika Associations between fruit and vegetable consumption and psychological distress: results from a population-based study |
title | Associations between fruit and vegetable consumption and psychological distress: results from a population-based study |
title_full | Associations between fruit and vegetable consumption and psychological distress: results from a population-based study |
title_fullStr | Associations between fruit and vegetable consumption and psychological distress: results from a population-based study |
title_full_unstemmed | Associations between fruit and vegetable consumption and psychological distress: results from a population-based study |
title_short | Associations between fruit and vegetable consumption and psychological distress: results from a population-based study |
title_sort | associations between fruit and vegetable consumption and psychological distress: results from a population-based study |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4590213/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26424583 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-015-0597-4 |
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