Is vegetarianism related to anxiety and depression? A cross-sectional survey in a French sample

OBJECTIVE: The relationship between vegetarianism and mental health is controversial. The aim of the present study is to examine the cross-sectional association between anxiety, depression, and vegetarianism in a French sample while controlling for potential confounders. DESIGN: Self-reported questi...

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Autores principales: Bègue, Laurent, Shankland, Rebecca
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Short Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9087979/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35534854
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41043-022-00300-2
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description OBJECTIVE: The relationship between vegetarianism and mental health is controversial. The aim of the present study is to examine the cross-sectional association between anxiety, depression, and vegetarianism in a French sample while controlling for potential confounders. DESIGN: Self-reported questionnaire data were obtained from a large cross-sectional sample. PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING: We included an online sample of 6578 participants aged 18–90, 70.8% females. RESULTS: Analyses of variance with age, gender, body mass index (BMI), educational level, monthly income, and city size as covariates showed that vegetarians and non-vegetarians did not appear to have significantly different levels of anxiety or depression. CONCLUSION: Our findings do not suggest a link between plant-based diet and anxiety or depression, either before or after adjustment for relevant factors.
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spelling pubmed-90879792022-05-11 Is vegetarianism related to anxiety and depression? A cross-sectional survey in a French sample Bègue, Laurent Shankland, Rebecca J Health Popul Nutr Short Report OBJECTIVE: The relationship between vegetarianism and mental health is controversial. The aim of the present study is to examine the cross-sectional association between anxiety, depression, and vegetarianism in a French sample while controlling for potential confounders. DESIGN: Self-reported questionnaire data were obtained from a large cross-sectional sample. PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING: We included an online sample of 6578 participants aged 18–90, 70.8% females. RESULTS: Analyses of variance with age, gender, body mass index (BMI), educational level, monthly income, and city size as covariates showed that vegetarians and non-vegetarians did not appear to have significantly different levels of anxiety or depression. CONCLUSION: Our findings do not suggest a link between plant-based diet and anxiety or depression, either before or after adjustment for relevant factors. BioMed Central 2022-05-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9087979/ /pubmed/35534854 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41043-022-00300-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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title_short Is vegetarianism related to anxiety and depression? A cross-sectional survey in a French sample
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9087979/
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