Food Security, Financial Resources, and Mental Health: Evidence during the COVID-19 Pandemic

COVID-19 has negatively impacted many households’ financial well-being, food security, and mental health status. This paper investigates the role financial resources play in understanding the relationship between food security and mental health among U.S. households using data from a survey in June...

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Autores principales: Yenerall, Jackie, Jensen, Kimberly
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8746951/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35011036
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu14010161
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description COVID-19 has negatively impacted many households’ financial well-being, food security, and mental health status. This paper investigates the role financial resources play in understanding the relationship between food security and mental health among U.S. households using data from a survey in June 2020. Results show job loss and savings draw down to pay for household bills had a significant relationship with both lower food security and greater numbers of poor mental health days during the pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-87469512022-01-11 Food Security, Financial Resources, and Mental Health: Evidence during the COVID-19 Pandemic Yenerall, Jackie Jensen, Kimberly Nutrients Article COVID-19 has negatively impacted many households’ financial well-being, food security, and mental health status. This paper investigates the role financial resources play in understanding the relationship between food security and mental health among U.S. households using data from a survey in June 2020. Results show job loss and savings draw down to pay for household bills had a significant relationship with both lower food security and greater numbers of poor mental health days during the pandemic. MDPI 2021-12-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8746951/ /pubmed/35011036 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu14010161 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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